you
All right good afternoon everybody and welcome to steadfast baptist church
We can go ahead and find our seats. We'll go ahead and get started
And for our first song tonight, we'll do song number 288
Song number 288 I am resolved
Song number 288
I
Am resolved no longer to linger song number 288
Everybody sing it out together on the first I
Am resolved no longer to linger charmed by the world's delight
Things that are higher things that are nobler these have a learn thy side
I
Will a sin to him a sin so glad and free
Jesus greatest highest I will come to thee I
Am resolved to go to the Savior leaving my sin and strife
He is the true one. He is the just one he hath the words of life
I
Will hey sin to him hey sin so glad and free
Jesus
Greatest highest I will come to thee
I
Am resolved to follow the Savior faithful and true each day
He what he sayeth do what he will if he is the living way I
Will hey sin to him a sin so glad and free
Jesus
Greatest highest I will come to thee
Alright great job. Everybody. Let's all pray together
Thank you Lord for
Steadfast Baptist Church and allow us to gather here today and sing unto you Lord
We love you, and we just ask you to bless the service in your son's name. Amen
Alright for our next song. Let's go song number 153
Song number
153
How firm a foundation song number one five three
Everybody singing out on the first
Real loud how
firm a
Foundation
he's saints of the Lord is
laid for your faith in his
Excellent word what?
More can he say than to you?
He hath said
You for refuge to Jesus
Have bled in every condition
In sickness and health in poverty's veil or
Abounding in wealth at home and abroad
As days
May demand shall your strength ever be?
when through fiery
Trials thy pathway shall lie
All sufficient
Shall be thy
supply the
flame shall not hurt thee I only
Design
We
Old age all my people shall prove my sovereign
Eternal
Changeable love and when hoary hairs shall their
temples adorn
With all that on Jesus
Hath lean for repose I will
Do
I'm sorry
Hell should endeavor to shake
Never no never no never forsake
Good evening. Thank you so much for coming to steadfast Baptist Church
If you need a bulletin lift up your hand nice and high one of our ushers would love to come by
Get you guys a bulletin. Also, we are continuing our series
We only got a couple more left, but we're doing the translating the reader
we've got a couple more sermons that will go through this and
so the sermon is a little bit different this evening, but
It helps to kind of follow along if you'd like to read with us
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We got ushers going up and down and they can get you guys either a bulletin or and or
Also another handout on the front. We have the Bible memory passage Revelation 1 verse 11
It's a really good one. And on the inside we have our service and soul winning times our church stats
Please make sure to continue updating our church stats. Please pray for expecting ladies. We have another one to add
If you'd be in prayer for Haley Williams, she's
Daughter of brother Wallach. She got married recently and so they're expecting and so congratulations of them
And so we're excited to have them in our prayer list as well. Also continue to pray for
Everyone here. We like to go over things on Wednesday nights just to have
Corporate prayer for everyone. We have the niguiras who've been praying for health. We would have miss Lucy's mother
We've been you need to pray for brother Cameron's leg. We've been praying for been praying for our friend brother Pendleton
Brother Wallach's friend won for cancer treatment. We've been praying for miss Cooley's dad's stepdad's cancer treatment
We've been praying for brother sue hails fiance's visa process
We've been praying for miss Ophelia's daughter who was diagnosed with inflammation of the heart
Been praying for miss Linda for car and job
we've been praying for the Zermanos whose grandmother had recently passed away and also
If you'd add to your list just pray for brother Ben Naim
I guess he got kind of sick and he's hoping he'll recover so he can still go on our trip to the Bahamas. So
we'll say a quick word of prayer for our church family and
Those who are expecting Thank You Heavenly Father for
Our church. Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity to be here this evening
Please please bless all of our expecting ladies and
Please bless their child and their development. I pray that you give them a timely birth. Please. Give them strength
I pray that you'd also bless our church family that has a lot of chronic sicknesses and health issues
I pray they just perform miracle in their life. Please give them healing and restoration
I pray that you also give them comfort while they're going through this affliction
I pray that you'd also bless our church family that needs favor whether that be through traveling or a job and
I pray that you'd also
Help us as we look to many different soul-winding opportunities in the future. Please bless our soul-winding trips and our labors
Please be with us. Please open our doors and just help us to get many people saved for your honor and glory
And Jesus name we pray. Amen
Again the bombest trips next week, please please
Pray for it. Also if you are planning on
Attending if you already signed up, please just pay attention to your email
In the next couple days, we're gonna be sending out a tentative itinerary
Along with just some friendly reminders travel reminders just so that way you have that
So, please just do pay attention to your email on that also Mother's Day teas at May 13th
And then on the back we have the congratulations to the West family on the birth of Opal Jean West
She was born on the 9th at 12 28 a.m.
Weighing 7 pounds 12 ounces and measuring 21 inches long. So congratulations to them. That's exciting
Great to see our church family growing all the time. So that's that's definitely a big blessing
I do want to make a couple quick
You
Week Psalm 139 and you can either use your special handout or you can use a Bible
You
All right now Psalm 139 everybody sing it out on the first
Surely thou will slay the wicked
Surely thou will slay the wicked Oh God
The part from me there for ye bloody men
Depart from me there for ye bloody men
Do not I hate them Oh Lord that hate thee do not
I hate them Oh Lord that hate thee
Am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee do not I hate them
Oh Lord that hate thee
For they speak
Against thee wickedly for they speak
against thee wickedly
And thine enemies take thy name in vain and thine enemies
Take thy name in vain
Do not I hate them Oh Lord
That hate thee do not I hate them Oh Lord that hate thee
Am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee do not
I hate them Oh Lord that hate thee I
Hate them with perfect hatred I hate them with perfect
Hatred I
Count them mine enemies I count them mine enemies
Do not I hate them
Do not I hate them Oh Lord that hate thee
Am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee do not
I hate them Oh Lord that hate thee
Alright great job everybody now as the offering plates are being passed around go ahead and turn in your Bibles to Haggai chapter 2
Haggai chapter 2
You
Haggai the chapter 2 the Bible reads in
The seventh month in the one in 20th day of the month came the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai saying
Speak now does rubable the son of she'll teal governor of Judah into Joshua the son of Josadak the high priest and to the residue
Of the people saying who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory and how do you see it now?
Is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing yet?
Now be strong those are bubble sayeth the Lord and be strong Oh Joshua son of Josadak the high priest and be strong
All you people the land sayeth the Lord and work for I am with you sayeth the Lord of hosts
According to the word that I coveted with you when he came out of Egypt
So my spirit remaining remaineth among you fear ye not
For thus saith the Lord of hosts yet once it is a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the
Sea and the dry land
I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come and I will fill this house with glory
Sayeth the Lord of hosts the silver is mine and the gold is mine sayeth the Lord of hosts
The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former sayeth the Lord of hosts and in this place
Why give peace sayeth the Lord of the hosts and in the four and 20th day of the ninth month in the second year of?
Darius came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet saying thus sayeth the Lord of hosts ask now the
concerning the law saying if one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment and
With his skirt to touch bread or pottage or wine or oil or any meat?
Shall it be holy and the priest answered and said no
Then said Haggai if one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these shall it be unclean and the priest answered and said
It shall be unclean then answered Haggai and said so is this people and so is this nation before me sayeth the Lord and so
Is every work of their hands and that which they offer there is unclean
And now I pray you consider from this day and upward from before a stone was laid upon a stone in a temple of the
Lord since those days were when one came to a heap of 20 measures there were but 10
When one came to the press vet for to draw out 50 vessels of the press there were about 20
I smote you with blasting with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands yet
You turn not to me sayeth the Lord
Consider now from this day and upward from the four and 20th day of the ninth month even from the day that the foundation
Of the Lord's temple was laid consider it is the seed yet in the barn
Yay
As yet the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive tree have not brought forth from this day
Will I bless you and again the word of the Lord came on to Haggai in the four and 20th day of the month saying
Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah saying I will shake the heavens and the earth and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms
And I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen and I will overthrow the chariots and those that ride in them and
the horses and their riders shall come down everyone by the sword of his brother and
That day sayeth the Lord of hosts
Well, I take the Ozerubbabel my servant the son of Shealtiel saith the Lord and will make thee as a signet for I have chosen
The saith the Lord of hosts, let us pray father. Thank you
To edify us tonight. I pray that you will bless
Mr. Strip next week and prepare hearts for us Lord and help us all to be healed and from our sicknesses and give us strength
Lord and also any attacks that we might be experiencing personally or churchwide
I pray that you will deliver us from those Lord and I pray these things in Jesus name
Amen so we've been continuing our translators of the reader and
Unfortunately, I wish they had been numbered
Just to give you an idea of kind of where we're at
We're kind of on what's considered like the fifth page
But the title is kind of at the bottom says translate translation out of Hebrew and Greek
Into Latin and that's where we're gonna be starting. It's kind of on your fifth page
translation out of Hebrew and Greek in the Latin now, we read Haggai chapter 2 and
I'm gonna get there in just a moment
But just to give you a quick recap again
This is a preface to the King James Bible and it gives us kind of just a clue as to you know
What people were thinking at the time of the King James Bible is translated
But what I really like about this particular piece of literature is how much Bible they themselves use in reference
And so I think what's really edifying for us is when we look up those same
References and we apply them in their context and even there's other contexts in which they could be applied
Also, it gives us a better perspective of why we have a King James Bible now just to give you a quick summary
And of course most of their topics are or most of the the paragraphs here are topical
So even though you miss stuff before that's fine
You're not going to be missing out necessarily on anything that we learned tonight, but they had brought up
previously how the best things were
Columniated and that's the word they use but it just means is spoken against or attacked how you know
Whenever someone does something good, they're attacked. Anybody tries to do a good work
It's attack examples were Solomon's Temple people get upset about that people get upset about the Bible people get upset about Jesus
In fact, they killed him
I don't know if you remember that and so he's saying even the best things are spoken against even the best people are
Spoken against David had many people that were against David. Yeah, it's David
like why don't you like David right and
So they kind of go through and talk about just kind of an opening about how the best things are
Spoken against and in fact the work that they're doing is spoken against which doesn't really make any sense because they're just trying to better
Christianity better get people as far as just understanding the Word of God and better the Bible itself
They talk about how translation itself is very
Important because even though the Bible is perfect and they said they believe it's perfect in the original
It doesn't benefit you and me who don't speak Greek in Hebrew
If you don't speak Greek in Hebrew, what benefit is it that you have a perfect Bible? Not really much
So they talk about the necessity of having translations and their benefit
then we also talked about
The translation specifically of the Old Testament into Greek which is called the Septuagint
That was what we last touched upon and they made it abundantly clear that they believe that
That translation work while good and had some good fruit was not perfect and was not
Something that they were going to rely upon for their translation process
So when it came to the Old Testament the King James translators were not going to use the Greek Septuagint
They were going to rather use the Hebrew Old Testament. Okay, so that's where we left off now
They bring up translation out of Hebrew and Greek into Latin
This is where they're also explaining the fact that there's a lot of Latin
Translations that exist and have existed says in here
There were also within a few hundred years after Christ translations many into the Latin tongue
For this tongue also was very fit to convey the law and the gospel by because in those times very many
Countries of the West yay of the south east and north spake and understood Latin being made provinces to the Romans
But now the Latin translations were too many to be all good for they were infinite now
Of course, there's a little bit of hyperbole here and a little exaggeration
But they say man when it comes to Latin by if you think there's a lot of English Bibles
They're saying the Latin number of translations was infinite
There was just too many of them and you know what?
I like about this this perspective is notice what they said there were too many to be all good
You know if that proves to me it proves to me that the King James translators would never ever accept
The modern view of Bibles today, which says look at all these English translations. They're all good
Because there are too many to all be good
I mean, that's a foolish attitude to suggest or have the idea that you can have just a
Gluttony of English translations all saying different things and they're just all good
So they're saying from a Latin perspective
This doesn't make any sense. All the Latin translations can't be good. That just doesn't make any sense
Now they give us a little bit of Latin itself latini and third patas new low moto numerare posun
Say it st. Augustine. What does that mean?
Well, it's kind of what they he had said previously, but essentially it just means Latin translations cannot be counted in any way
Okay, so if you take that literally it's saying there's no way we could ever decide to use the Latin for
our translation
Again, they were not out of the Hebrew fountain
We speak of the Latin translations of the Old Testament, but out of the Greek stream
Therefore the Greek being not altogether clear the Latin derived from it must needs be muddy
So now unpacking the sentence is important, what is he saying?
He's saying the Latin translations that exist all these various Latins almost all of them are coming from the Greek
Septuagint they're not coming from the Hebrew. That's why he says they're not coming out of the Hebrew fountain
They're saying they're coming from what Greek stream and notice what they said. Therefore the Greek being not altogether clear
The Latin derived from it must need somebody so he's saying since the Greek Septuagint already has problems
It's of course then gonna manifest itself in the Latin too. So the Latin is gonna be muddy as they describe it
Now it says this moves st. Herome now just to give you context because this
Particular literature has names a little bit goofy to us, but this is who we think of as Jerome
You know Jerome's a really famous church father quote-unquote because he's the guy that
Translated the Bible into Latin that became the official Latin of the Catholic Church st
Jerome here consistently through this document. It's Herome. Okay, same person
All right, but that's just who that is. It was three hundred and forty seven eighties when he was born four hundred and twenty
Eighties when he died and so and that in his lifetime. He was a really
Excellent scholar he produced the Latin translation that the Catholic Church relied upon
For a very long time. Did it get changed and corrupted along the way? It's on we don't know how good was his work
I don't know, but it seems to reason that it was probably a pretty good work
Who knows how perfect it really was?
But notice is that this moved st. Herome a most learned father and the best linguist without
Controversy of his age or of any other that went before him to undertake the translating of the Old Testament out of the very
fountains themselves
Which he performed with that evidence of great learning judgment industry and faithfulness
That he hath forever bound the church unto him and a debt of special remembrance and thankfulness
Now, of course the translators themselves, how do they feel about Jerome?
They have a very high respect for Jerome and they say Jerome is
Arguably the greatest linguist to ever live
Especially from his lifetime and prior to they're saying this guy was the most studious
one of the most educated one of the smartest guys to ever live and
Him when he made a translation
He wasn't gonna make a mistake like using the Latin or using the Greek but rather
Notice what it says the very fountains themselves. So he's gonna only use the originals
Now this is important concept and I think it makes a lot of sense. And this is why I had us read Haggai chapter 2
look again at verse 12 Haggai chapter 2 verse 12 if one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment and
With his skirt do touch bread or pottage or wine or oil or any meat?
Shall it be holy and the priests answered and said no
Then said Haggai if one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these
Shall it be unclean and the priests answered and said it shall be unclean now
This is an interesting concept of the Bible is describing but essentially, you know, what is the skirt?
You know a skirt can be in reference to a few different items
It could be what we think of as a female garment that only women wear
But also many times with the Bible means by skirt is it says the it's the edge of a garment is all that it's in
reference to so essentially what it's saying is if I went and I'm having dinner and the edge of my coat just kind of like
Falls into the oil dish or something
And if let's say I was holy which I'm not saying that but I'm just saying
You know if I'm the holy man and my garment touches that oil
Does that just make the oil holy all of a sudden and they're saying no
They're saying something that's holy
Touching something that's not doesn't just make it holy
But notice that the reverse is actually always true if I'm dirty
You know if I'm gross or something's defiled and you put that in the oil dish if you put dirt in
The oil dish or you put something dirty and you know, this isn't that now unclean and they're saying yes
This is the phenomena that we observe in our physical reality is
That you cannot
Make something clean
by touching it with just something else that's clean that doesn't just make it clean and
This makes sense, right if someone's sick, I can't just walk up and just touch them and I'm not being sick
They're gonna instantly not be sick either because that would be healing or something something's unique
But just in general that's not how we make things clean just think about this way when you have molded bread
You don't take good bread and just touch it with the moldy bread and now you make the moldy bread good
What happens the good bread becomes moldy now the good bread becomes defiled because it touched the moldy
object and this is exactly how
Everything emanates from the scripture itself. This is a really important principle. So think about it
let's let's apply it first to what they have and then I want to make a couple of applications here, but
If I have a corrupt Bible if I have a Bible it's not really the words of God
how am I then gonna take from that and get a good Bible I
Can't so if I come and I translate from something that's already defiled
That's not gonna give me something that's pure and clean
The only way to get something pure and clean is to go from something that is pure and clean and then get it
If I have milk that's been sitting out and it's curdled
I'm not gonna get any good milk from that milk. It's spoiled
I have to go back to the fridge and get the fresh milk and then pour a glass from the fresh container
Then I would have fresh milk. And if I pour some of the fresh milk into that curdled milk, it's not now good
It's still defiled right? So this is the same concept when it comes to the scripture of
Okay, the Greek
Septuagint is not perfect. It has some level of defilement has some level of issue here. So
How can I then go from that into Latin and then believe the Latin is gonna be pure or the Latin is good
No at best it's gonna be at the same level of corruption at the very best and most likely probably even has more issues
Just like you take any document and you copy it. The original is gonna look better than the copy
and then if you take that copy and you copy it it's gonna look a little less good from that copy and the more you
Just copy something over and over and over the more it deteriorates from that copying process
And if you wanted to know exactly what the original said you wouldn't want the 50th copy
You would want the original you'd want to copy it from the original again
So you could get the best idea of what that was now, of course
We don't have the actual
physical
originals of the Bible
No one has that
No one you know
We don't have like this is the one that Paul pinned down or that actually this is one that Tertius pinned down
From the Apostle Paul speaking. We don't we don't have that. Okay, so if we did though
Logic would stand let's use that and copy from that or let's use that as our source document, but we don't have that
But here's the thing. What's the closest thing that we have?
Something that was a copy of that right and of course
that's what we use we use copies of copies of copies of the Hebrew and of the Greek and
The way that that can be authenticated is the fact that these copies have been spread out throughout all the world in
different areas and when you compare the two
That agree that makes it really clear. That must have been what the scripture was. Okay, that's what the scripture said if I have 10,000
Documents all saying the same thing and one that doesn't
It's really easy to realize what the original probably was and have some kind of idea
And of course, this is what we believe in we believe in what's called the Texas Receptus
What has been handed down and of course this family of manuscripts is the majority of manuscripts
There are some people that would go a little bit too extreme on
Majority text and they would say only majority counts
The problem with this view is that the further we go back into history
the more it's it's a it's a it's kind of a it's a false sense of security when it comes to a majority of
Manuscripts and what I mean by that is this there's approximately especially when you think about Greek there's approximately 5,000 extant manuscripts
there might even be more of
Greek New Testament some of them are fragments. They're not even necessarily a whole New Testament. They're just portions of the New Testament. Okay?
But within that there's certain books that you may only have 200
So you have a family of 200 documents that all have like a particular book of the Bible of the New Testament
within that there may only be a
smaller even number that have a specific chapter or a specific portion of a chapter and so
Sometimes you're comparing and it's like, okay. Well, we have 10 that say one thing and we have five
That say something else but think about this
Do you really think there was only 15 New Testaments floating around at the time that those were originally copied?
No, there was probably thousands and thousands and thousands. So our sample size is so small
That the majority may not always be the right pick
Okay, when we have ten that say one thing and we have five that say another there could be other
Reasons or criterion why we would pick a particular text things like okay. Well, what did Church Fathers quote?
You know throughout history, what did people use and and here's the what's in use?
Right, and of course we rely on what was in use
That's what the whole that's what the Texas Receptus position believes is that whatever was in use
What was handed down and being used by everybody must have been the one that was right because otherwise
You know the the doctrine of preservation everything else just falls apart
it doesn't really make any sense and of course you and I thinking about it this way when you didn't have the
the abundance of
Printed works that we have today. You only have the handwritten copies or you have books are very expensive
The one that you would hand your children would be the one that you believes, right?
but that doesn't mean you necessarily have a ton of those and of course the one that's right is gonna get used and it's gonna
Wear away whereas the ones that weren't as good. Well, you know, but on the shelf they might be preserved more likely
So majority text we I agree with this viewpoint
But only to some extent only to some degree
So some people that are majority text only they just say give me the total number of manuscripts
And that's just the text I pick every single time
That's not exactly what we have in the King James Bible
There are a few places where technically it's a minority reading of extant
Manuscripts but that doesn't that doesn't cause me to lose faith in those verses or to not believe in them
There's other reasons even from a secular viewpoint why they're legitimate but at the end of the day
Of course, I have to take the whole Bible by faith
But what I don't want to do is I don't want my faith and logic that's flawed
Okay, what's a flawed logic of having a perfect Bible one that came from a Greek Septuagint that came from a Latin
You know because of course you can't have a clean thing come out of an unclean
Just like if someone starts pulling their dinner like I go to your house for dinner and you start pulling food out of the trash
Can I'm gonna be suspicious of that?
Now if you're pulling it out of the refrigerator
Right. I might think okay that must have been preserved
But if you're pulling it out of the trash can I'm thinking that wasn't really preserved was it?
There could be issues. In fact, my rule is once it goes in the trash can it's defiled
Right, it's not like well, it's it's still good
I know it's touching a bunch of gross stuff, but it's fine. You know, we'll just wash it off or something
It's like no, no, no once it's once in the trash always in the trash
Okay, just like once they'd always say it's like once in hell always in hell, you know, you got your Jesus exception
But out of the side of that, I mean, it's just like, you know when it comes to trash, you know
I'm not trying to recycle
The same exists in every area of our life and and think about the incredible aspect of this chapter
when it comes to
Cleanliness, okay, because what about us?
Aren't we defiled that when we get the filed by sin?
Okay. Now, how do you make something clean though?
Right. How do we make things clean?
You have to wash it exactly, okay, so let's say the table is dirty
How do I get the table clean? Well, typically you may take paper towels. You may take a dish towel
you may take some item and
You clean it off
But what happens to the paper towels or the dish towel that you use to clean it? What happens to it?
It becomes dirty, doesn't it? And the only way to get the table clean was to take a perfectly clean
Undefiled object and for it to take all the defilement from the table off
And it takes the defilement away from it so that it can be clean the tables clean
But the cloth is now dirty
The tables clean but the paper towels are dirty and then we have to dispose of them
the same applies with us spiritually when it comes to the fact that we were dirty and
Jesus who is perfect came and took our dirtiness took our defilement so that we could be clean
But the if someone dirty came to try and save you it wouldn't work
You had to have someone perfect holy and righteous and clean that could come and take your dirtiness
But here's the thing you have to understand about dirtiness dirtiness can't just go away
It's transfers
Notice it as the transfer just like sickness illness all these different things it
transfers and that's the way so the way to get clean is to be healed or
Anything like that and of course the bad substance has to be discarded
Trashed and done away with this is the same principle. We have everywhere in the Bible
Something that's unclean, you know, like the house of the sodomites break it down
You
Know and things that had leprosy you could try and wash it or clean it or purge it with fire
But if it didn't get clean
Then you have to just destroy it and get rid of it because they had no hope and so of course when it comes to
Us as well, you know our only
Salvation is not through our filthy rags, which is our works
But rather it is from the pure spotless lamb
Taking the blood for us, you know
We're we're washing his blood and his blood took all of our sin and it was spilled for us
And it's put on the mercy seat and that's what gives us, you know forgiveness of sins
So what a great picture and when it comes to our Bible again
If I'm gonna have a pure Bible, it's got to be coming from a pure source
So, you know what? I'm not gonna do I'm not gonna take the NIV and try to make it good
I'm not gonna try and clean, you know, they keep updating the NIV and they don't get any closer
They keep updating all these modern versions. They don't seem to get it get any better do they?
But why is it that they're not getting any better? It's because they're not coming from the right stream
They're not coming from the Hebrew in the Greek stream. That's correct. They're coming from the Septuagint
They're coming from other sources that have defilement that have these problems and of course the critical text
And so that's why they're unclean. That's why I reject them
That's why the argument we made in our film was so important to me when you talk about the doctrine of preservation
You know you either believe in the doctrine of preservation your King James only or you just don't believe either
You can't have one without the other King James Bible is the preserved Word of God and it came from a pure source
That's what they're teaching and that's what I believe. Okay. It's the same thing now
Let's go to the next section the translating of the scripture in a volt into the vulgar tongues
Now though the church were thus furnished with Greek and Latin translations
Even before the faith of Christ was generally embraced in the Empire for the learned know that even st
Jerome time in the Council of Rome and his wife were both ethnics and about the same time the greatest part of the Senate also
Yet for all that the godly learned were not content to have the scriptures in the language which themselves understood Greek and Latin as
The good lepers were not content to fare well themselves
But acquainted their neighbors with the store that God had sent that they also might provide for themselves
but also for the behoof and edifying of the unlearned which hungered and thirsted after
righteousness and had souls to be saved as well as they they provided translations into the vulgar for their countrymen in so much that
Most nations under heaven did shortly after their conversion hear Christ speaking unto them and their mother tongue
Not by the voice of their minister only but also by the written word translated. So
What they explained here now
I'm not gonna go to second King seven for for sake of time because I want to get through more of this
but the story being brought up is the four lepers who
get out of Israel and they end up realizing that the Syrians have fled and they have all this like
merchandise and food and everybody's been starving because they've been seized and
So they go and they're having a good time eating and having you're like
But then they feel bad because they're like we're having a good time here
Well, the whole rest of the city is starving and that's not fair
So they end up going back to the city and telling the whole city and then they went spoiled all the tents and brought back
As well, he's saying the same with the Bible in the fact that okay you speak
Latin or you speak Greek or you speak Hebrew?
You might be feasting
But how is that fair to the people that don't have that ability don't speak these languages and so in fact many people
strove to
Translate the Bible into every language at that time and it's saying shortly after it's saying
Almost immediately after the time of Christ and the Apostles people are already
Translating the Bible into every language all kinds of languages. Everybody's getting the Word of God
You know, we we we try to
We kind of have this superiority complex of like English or something, but you know, if you go to a Bible Museum
You know, it's incredible. You'll you'll find
Bibles in all kinds of languages way before English even existed even thought of being a language and
It's not like oh well
The Bible didn't exist before 1611
of course it existed and of course it was going into all kinds of languages all kinds of tongues because everybody
That's a Christian knows the importance of preaching the gospel spreading it and for people to not just hear the Bible
But they will see it and read it and have a written word in their tongue
and that's what they're bringing up says if any doubt here of
He may be satisfied by examples enough and enough will serve the turn first st. Arome saith
Mottarum gentium linguist scriptura ante translata docet false a essay cry
Aditha sunt
Etc. He says and you say what does that say?
Well says this the scripture being translated before the language of many nations
Does show that those things that were added by Lucian Hirsch's are false. So
He's saying
He adds the parenthesis to that quote in Latin
But what they're saying here is that the scripture was translated into all kinds of languages
Every kind of language you can kind of think of coming from the original source
So then when people later came and tried to add to the Bible it was easy to pick that out
Is what they're saying they're saying they had all these different languages to compare with and look to
So when someone would just add in a Bible it was really easy to be like no
That's not what this version, you know
We have eight different languages and they all said the same thing and your bozo one that you came up with
You're you're adding to the scripture
So it's kind of a way to prevent fraud and is
Essentially what they're alluding to so st.
Jerome in that place the same Jerome elsewhere affirm it that he the time was had set forth the translation of the 70
Sua linga omen ebus
Etc for his countrymen of
Dalmatia
Which words not only Erasmus doth understand to purport that st.
Rome translated scripture into the Dalmatian tongue, but also Sixtus sinusus and
Alphonsus acostro that we speak of no more men not to be accepted against by them of Rome do ingenuously
Confess as much so st. Chris's stone that lived in st.
Jerome's time giveth evidence with him the doctrine of st.
John he saith he did not in such sort as the philosophers did vanish away, but the Syrians Egyptians
Indians Persians Ethiopians and infinite other nations being barbarous people
Translated it into their mother tongue and have learned to be true philosophers. He meaneth Christians, so
What is the point of this paragraph and I'll just give you the essence of this paragraph is this many
people throughout all centuries have translated the Bible into every kind of language and
He's saying even your own beloved st
Jerome Catholic Church
Because who doesn't like this the Catholic Church the Catholic Church hates the idea of the Bible being in any language other than Latin
It's Latin only okay, and so and they forbid people to have the Bible in other languages
But he's saying hey even your own beloved st. Jerome. He translated into Dalmatia
He's like put that in your Pope and smack it. You know. He's like how do you reconcile the fact that your beloved st?
Jerome
Didn't just give you a Latin he translated it into other languages and st. John Chrysostom another guy you guys love
He's translating other language, and they say here's some examples you got the language of
India Persia
Ethiopian he's like all kinds of the Syrian Egyptian. He's saying the Bible was in every language
There's so many examples. What do you what's your guys problem?
Why do you hate people from having the Bible and multiple translations your own church fathers don't agree with you
He says this to this may be added the Odor it as next on him both for antiquity and for learning his words be these
Every country that is under the Sun is full of these words of the apostles and prophets and the Hebrew tongue
Now that's important to think about what he said there and the Hebrew tongue. He's not saying the Greek Septuagint
He's saying even the Hebrew you look this up, and let's go there acts 15. I want to show you one more place
I wrote this down Elise. Let's go to Acts chapter 15 and notice what they actually even said about the Bible
you know history is a funny thing and
Honestly most history is just a made-up nonsense and and people don't really know what they're talking about
You know what kind of history we can actually trust the Bible
The Bible's history is always accurate, and it gives us the right depiction and of course the Bible gives us concepts that we need to never
Forget there's no new thing under the Sun
So the Bible is everywhere now. Just like it's always been
Acts chapter 15 look at verse 21 for Moses of old time
Have in every city them that preach him being read in the synagogues every Saturday notice
What they didn't say Moses only right now is in every city
It says Moses of all the time have in every city then that preach up
Does it sound like the Apostles believe that the Word of God is limited to a certain group of people for a certain amount of?
Time or are they saying hey the Bible has been everywhere all the time
That's what they're saying and of course
We they're getting specific here and what we're reading and they're saying the Hebrew tongue
And of course they're truly worse than I mean, how do you think the Apostle Paul was in a synagogue everywhere he went?
You know and of course he's going in there and arguing with them
in the Hebrew tongue and probably the Greek too, but
It says this he mean at the scriptures in the Hebrew tongue is
Turned not only in the language of the Grecians
but also of the Romans and Egyptians and Persians and Indians and Armenians and Scythians and
Saromatians and briefly
Into all the languages that any nation use it
Wow
Sounds like they're pretty clear that if you study Church history the Bible went into every single language
Now notice what it says that a nation used
That a nation that's an important distinction because even today this is pretty much true
But some people will be like, oh, there's all these languages the Bible isn't translated into okay
Maybe some clique language of an African tribe somewhere
But the official language of a particular nation virtually speaking. I mean we have the Bible in every language and
virtually, even these weird click language people they typically speak multiple languages and speak a more common broad tongue that has a
Bible in it now, of course
I'm not against improving that adding more to finding other places where there's a there's a lack and let's fill that gap
But generally speaking the Bible is in every single tongue more or less
That's what they're saying they're bringing they're making this point abundantly clear he says also or it says here
So he in like manner
Uplis is reported by Paulus daikonos and
Isidore and before them by Susan men to have translated the scriptures into the gothic tongue
John Bishop of Seville by Vasus
To have turned them into Arabic about the year of our Lord 717
betta by sir
Sis-ter-tenneous to have turned a great part of them into Saxon ethnard by trithemous
You were thinking about names for your kids. You got some you got some options here
To have a bridge the French Psalter as beta had done the Hebrew
About the year 800 King allured by this said
Sis-ter-tenneous, please don't name them that that's hard to say to have turned the Psalter in a Saxon
methodius by Aventius
printed at in
Gloestad to have turned the scriptures into
Sclavonian
Valdo Bishop of frizzing by bettas
Rhenianus to have caused about that time the Gospels we translated into Dutch rhyme yet extent in the library of
Corbinian Valdis
By divers to have turned them himself or to have gotten them turned into French about the year 1160
Charles the fifth of that name surname the wise to have caused them to be turned into French
About 200 years after Valdis his time of which translation there be many copies yet extent as
witnesseth barreled offs
Much about the time even our King Richard the second's days John Trevisa
Translated them into English and many English Bibles in written hand are yet to be seen with divers
Translated as it is very probable in that age
So the Syrian translation of the New Testament is in most learned men's libraries of
wid mis Thaddeus his setting forth and the Psalter in Arabic is with many of
Augustinius
Nebentius
Set in fourth so postal firmeth that in his travel. He saw the Gospels in the Ethiopian tongue and
Ambrose Thisius
Alleged the Psalter of the Indians which he testifieth who have been set forth by Paakton in
Syrian characters so that to have the scriptures in the mother tongue is not a quaint conceit
Lately taken up either by the Lord Cromwell in England or by the Lord Radville and pull it colony or by the Lord
Unganadis in the Emperor's Dominion
But hath been fought upon and put in practice of old even from the first times of the conversion of any nation
No doubt
because it was esteemed most profitable to cause faith to grow in men's hearts the sooner and
To make them to be able to say with the words of the psalm as we have heard
So we have seen go the way to Psalm 48 now again that was long and I just wanted to read through it
so we leave no stone unturned but
What's the point they belabored that point folks, but they're trying to make it abundantly clear
everyone's translating the Bible into every language over and over and again again you go to the
Bible Museum in
Washington DC and
What you'll notice is that there are Bibles and all kinds of languages from every century
I mean there's all kinds of French Bibles and all kinds of crazy languages and and all kinds of examples
And we're talking about things that they actually have physical copies of left
We're not even talking about the things they actually have we're talking about they still have them left
We still have examples of this we can still look to this okay, so the Bible is truly
Been in every single language of every kind of people
You know there's a verse that comes to my mind that I wasn't gonna have us turn there
but you know the Bible says that this gospel shall be preached into all the world and
Then the end shall come now. There's a couple ways to interpret that verse but
Some people suggest there's gonna be like this mass soul-winning army
That's just gonna encompass the whole world right before Christ comes back and look
I'm all for trying to do that, and I'm not even saying that that's wrong
But you know another way to interpret that verse is that the gospel has truly spread the entire earth
from the time of Christ until now and
I think that's more likely what it's actually trying to say
Because think about it if the gospel and the Word of God has gone to everywhere
Why is it that certain areas are really light and some areas are really dark?
It's not because they didn't have the Bible. It's because they rejected the Bible folks
it's because they as a nation hated the Bible and the Bible talks about the curse that comes upon nations and
Areas that reject the Bible and how it's going to be punished from it from a very long period of time
Under the third and fourth generation of them that hate me
There are certain areas of this world where truly you could say
Four or five generations have hated the Bible not just the immediate generation
Now of course we would love to still get the gospel in there and and get people saved
but many times what needs to happen and if you study history is that an era gets really dark and
then God destroys it and
Then the light comes back in there, but it's usually not think about this Sodom and Gomorrah
There wasn't a whole lot of light spreading going on there
It was really just nuke them off the planet, and then we'll bring the light back in there the nation of Israel
It was like we're going to destroy them and Lake the land rest for a long period of time
Then we're gonna bring the light back in there
And and that's happened consistently throughout history where you have really dark areas or bad areas
they get wiped out and destroyed by another nation and
That allows you have that reset button for the gospel to come back in and for the gospel to spread again
But you know let's not necessarily be unrealistic about the fact that some areas that are very hostile to the gospel
may never change until they get destroyed until they get wiped out and
From my perspective while I'm still alive. I'm gonna try and witness the people that are the most receptive first
I'm not you know you might get mad at me, but I'm not gonna go start trying to witness in Sodom and Gomorrah
You know Abraham didn't go down and try and get people saved in Sodom and Gomorrah
Okay, and look there. There were where it could places. There's Nineveh
Nineveh you know had light come into it, and they got saved
But there sometimes comes a point where it's like this is not necessarily the area to go and witness right now
Even the apostles brought this up there be times where they would say hey
We're forbidden to go into Asia or we're forbidden to go in this place or we're kept from this area
For a specific time and a specific you know place Paul was being told by the Holy Ghost over never don't go to Jerusalem
Don't go back to Jerusalem, and then what does he do he goes back to Jerusalem?
And then what happens he gets arrested, and he basically doesn't accomplish anything for several years
He's basically just in jail for a really long period of time, and he's not doing much for the Lord
He's not doing the same amount of works as he was when he was just traveling abroad and getting people saved and doing what God
Really wanted to do now that God still accomplished his purpose despite Paul's rebellion
Yes, he did that. He still get Paul to Rome. Yes. He did, but I bet there could have been a better journey
If he had done with the Holy Ghost said right, it's like hey don't do this
But you know God still works with our broken will okay, so you know he still he was still with Paul
He didn't leave him he never forsook him. He still used him
He still got people saved and so even when we screw up. God's like well get the guy saved in jail. Okay, you know
Get your cellmate safe if you're not gonna obey me
but you know God doesn't want us to just hear the Bible he even wants us to read it and
And I like this verse it says verse 8 Psalm 48 verse 8 as we have heard
So have we seen and the city of the Lord of hosts and the city of our God God will stop you
but you know whatever you hear it's gonna it's gonna actually be we see and experience and
That's the God that we worship
Let's look at the next section. It says this the unwillingness of our chief adversaries that the scripture should be divulged in the mother tongue
Now the Church of Rome would seem at the link to bear a motherly affection towards her children and to allow them the scriptures in
Their mother tongue but indeed it is a gift not deserving to be called a gift and a provable gift that they must
first get a license in
Writing before they may use them and to get that they must approve themselves to their confessor
That is to be such as are if not frozen in the dregs yet soured with the leaven of their superstition
It sounds like America where you have to get like a fishing license to go fish
It's like the gift to be able to fish and have freedom
We have to pay for that, you know, you have to get a license and they're saying hey
Yeah
you could translate the Bible in another language if you get a license and
If you go and ask the government and they say that you can do it
But here's the problem bureaucracy was alive and well back then too and people weren't getting these licenses
and
Of course, they have superstition
What's their superstition that anything outside the Latin is corrupt and bad and it can't be good
You can't translate the Bible that was and that laypeople aren't can't be trusted with the Bible
That's their doctrine
But were they really superstitious or were they claiming that because they really just didn't want the truth to get eat out, right?
They didn't want people to know what's really going on
How be it it seemed too much to Clement the eighth
that there should be any license granted to them in the vulgar tongue and therefore he overruled and
Frustrated the great the grant of Pius the fourth so much. Are they afraid of the light of the scripture?
Lucifer scripta to Rerum as Tertullian speaking that they will not trust the people with it
No, not as it is set forth by their own sworn men
No
Not with the license of their own bishops and inquisitors yay
So unwilling they are to communicate the scriptures to the people's understanding in any sort that they are not ashamed to confess
That we forced them to translate it in English against their wills now
This is what they're saying. They're saying it's so hard to get the Catholic Church to give you a Bible in your language
that
They won't even give it to their own sworn men their own sworn dedicated Catholics their own bishops
Nobody can be trusted with this but then they say but we forced them to give us an English translation
What is that called the do a reams?
Okay, so the do a reams is an English translation, but it's not coming from the same stream of
Our King James Bible. It's not the same lineage of the King James Bible. It's actually coming from the Latin
so remember when they talked about how there was the Bible translated from the Septuagint into Latin and then into
You know other languages or whatever. They didn't want to do that
Well, the do a reams is coming from the Latin now to their credit that Latin is based on Jerome's Latin and Jerome's Latin
Was coming from the Hebrew but still nevertheless
They didn't want to come from the Latin
they didn't want to trust the Latin and notice they're saying we forced them because basically we're gonna put them out of business and
Everybody's gonna read our English version. So they had to come up with their own to try and just get well
No, no read our English version
Don't read their English version
Okay, and of course they come up with lies and say the King James Bibles translated to give King Henry the 8th a divorce
Not true, okay, but obviously that bad event did culminate itself into allowing
More people to translate Bibles in English, but the King James didn't come from King Henry. It came from King James. Hence the name
This says this this seemeth to argue a bad cause or a bad conscience or both
Saying we don't know if we don't know if you have bad reasons or a bad conscience or both
It's like are you stupid wicked or both? It's like oh, yeah
Sure
We are that it is not he that have good gold that is afraid to bring it to the touchstone
But he that at the counterfeits neither
Is it the true man that shunt of the light but the malefactor lest his deed to be approved now?
That's coming from John chapter 3 how it talks about evil men not coming under the light lest his deed should be reproved
But he that doeth truth cometh of the light that is these may manifest that they're wrought in God. So according to the Bible
For some reason there's a connection
With people being wicked and not wanting to get saved
And that's just interesting. We have exceptions, but I believe this is also generally true. And what do I mean by this?
The worst people in society are the least likely to get saved
Now do we have exceptions? Yes, we have process getting saved. Yes
Do we have examples of the Apostle Paul who was and his mind chief of sinners getting saved?
Absolutely, but just generally speaking
People that get saved usually were the better people
They were the people that cared more they liked truth more. They didn't go down really dark paths
Necessarily they and of course the Bible saying people that just love truth are the ones who need to get saved
Because they're like at the end of the day. I would rather just know the truth and be shown how bad I am
Then to not have the truth whereas wicked people they're just so afraid of
even finding out about how to get saved because they they're afraid of their sins getting exposed of what they're really like and
The things that they've really done. They're too ashamed and too embarrassed of how wicked they've actually been
But they're unwilling to come to the light and you know
that is a deterrent to people getting saved is they won't humble themselves and
Believe on Jesus Christ, they won't humble themselves to hear the light or to hear the gospel and and I've even meet people like this
I've knocked on doors and they say I'm going to hell
And you're like, whoa, why that's an important question to ask why okay now this is either a sodomite just why?
So this is like I've just done really sinful things and it's like well, can I just show you the Bible?
You don't have to be a good person. They're like, no, I don't want to hear it
And it's like they just they just think they're too bad
And they or really they may be done some really bad stuff and they just don't want anybody to know and they're just too afraid
And so they're just gonna shun it and that's that's a sad reality
But the point that's being made here is the person that hasn't really lived that bad a life that hasn't really gone down these dark
Roads is more likely to face scrutiny than the guy that's doing a lot of wicked things
And so he's like if you have true gold if you have good gold
You're not afraid of someone testing and making sure that it's good. Hey, if you have the Word of God
You're not afraid of people testing this thing
But you know what when you have a corrupted version with all kinds of problems and it doesn't really make any sense
You're afraid of people scrutinizing your Bible you're afraid of or here's the thing when your doctrine doesn't line up with this
You're afraid of people actually reading the Bible themselves and finding out what you believe
Why do you think it is that I want you to read the Bible so much
Why do you think it is that we reward people and and literally are just giving gifts out just thousands and thou
I mean tens of thousands of dollars being given to the congregation just to read the Bible memorize the Bible study the Bible
It's because the more you know this the more you're gonna want to come here
The less you know this the more you want to go the fun center or something or do whatever, you know
But of course who is afraid of you actually reading the Bible the fun center who is afraid of you actually reading the Bible the Catholic
Church because you'll start saying like what's all this like graven image and idol stuff
That's found in like every chapter of the Old Testament
You know, where's this purgatory thing? You're talking of not in the Bible
Hey, what's this part where Jesus says call no man father?
What does that mean father?
It's
like
Catholics just don't even read the Bible apparently and you know what? You know is afraid of people reading the Bible the Catholic Church
But we're not afraid here. We love the Bible
We want you to read it and it says this neither is it plain dealing merchant that is unwilling to have the weights
or the meat yard
Brought in place, but he that uses the seat, but we will let them alone for this fault and return to translation now
It's funny is they kind of just kick the dog
They were kind of like you guys yeah, you guys are wicked and evil and have bad intentions
But you know, we'll just move on from now, you know, we're not gonna just belabor that point but you know
Wink-wink nod nod. They're afraid of the light. Okay, and
I want to just finish on this last one
This last one will be good one the speeches and reasons both of our brethren of our adversaries against this work
So here's what a lot of people are saying
Against them and their answer many men's mouths have been open a good while and yet are not stopped
With speeches about the translation so long in hand or rather perusals of translations made before and ask
What may be the reason what the necessity of the employment at the church been deceived?
Say they all this while hath their sweet bread been mingled with leaven her silver withdraws her wine with water
Her milk with lime lack. They gypsum Malay miss a tour
say a saint Irene and
That's just saying you're mixing milk and lime or gypsum
we hoped that we had been in the right way that we had had the
Oracles of God delivered unto us and that though all the world that had cause to be offended and to complain
Yet that we had none hath a nurse holding out the breast and nothing but wind in it
hath the bread been delivered by the fathers of the church and the same proved to be
Lapsidosis as
Seneca speaketh. What is it to handle the Word of God deceitfully if this be not?
thus certain brethren
Also the adversaries of Judah and Jerusalem meaning Jerusalem like Sanballat and Nehemiah mock as we hear both of the work and workman
Saying what do these weak Jews?
Will they make the stones hole again out of the heaps of dust which are burnt although they build
Yet if a fox go up he shall even break down their stony wall
Was their translation good before?
Why do they now mend it? Was it not good? You know that this is like reading all the troll comments on YouTube
It's just troll comment after troll comment and true comment says why then was it obtruded to the people?
Yay, why did the Catholics meaning popish Romanists always go in jeopardy for refusing to go to hear it nay
If it must be translated in English
Catholics are the fittest to do it
They have learning and they know when a thing is well they can manum the tabla
We will answer them both briefly
So they finally get to their response all of this was a precursor just every accusation
They're hearing under the Sun and notice people run their mouth back then just like they do today, and they're just saying
Here's the essence though of the couple things that they're saying
Why is it that you need to translate the Bible into an again?
Are you saying that every Bible before it was wicked? Are you saying that everyone else was deceived?
Are you saying that the Bible didn't exist before 1611?
Are you saying that we're all wrong and everything's bad and if if the church needed to be updated?
How come the Catholics aren't the one doing it? That's the essence that we just heard okay?
We will answer them both briefly and the former being brethren so they're saying not everyone
That's making this accusation is a bad person
Some people are even genuine brethren, but simply they're still having the question
Thus with st.. Jerome or st.. Jerome
Dominus Verteris
Minimi said post priorum studia and Domo
Domini quote postumus labor omos
Now you know exactly what button are you that is do we condemn the ancient in?
No case, but after the endeavors of them that were before us we take the best pains
We can in the house of God as if he said being provoked by the example of the learned that lived before my time
I have thought it my duty
To say whether my talent and the knowledge of the tongues may be profitable in any measure to God's Church
Lest I should seem to have labored in them in vain
Unless I should be thought to glory and men although ancient above that which was in them thus st.
Jerome may be thought to speak so they basically
Just allure to something that st.. Jerome said and they're like we have the same philosophy that st.. Jerome had
What is their philosophy do we condemn the ancient? No all that which before us?
Fine
but
Let us not think that the work of the men before us was perfect necessarily and that there could be no
improvement or no adding to it and
If anything should I not try that's what they say by a say it is our duty to say
Whether my talent in the knowledge of the tongues may be profitable, so they're saying we're gonna try
To see if we could profit the church
Based on our knowledge
Otherwise, I would have just been in church for no reason
I want to labored in vain
meaning that why would God put me here and
Give me the opportunities. I have if at the end of the day. It was all in vain. I can't do anything to improve
Like there's no way to improve anything
There's no way to make anything better and that all the talents and the gifts and the knowledge that God has given me can never
Achieve that which was before
And some people have this mentality
Some people have the idea that everyone before us was way better than us. So what do I have to add to the table now?
Some of that's true. Is it true that there were men before us that were better than us in certain aspects. Yes
Yeah, of course Solomon is arguably the smartest man to ever live. You already can't be the smartest
But does that mean
That you could not improve upon something of Solomon's work or Solomon's faith or or the things that were built by song
No, that's not true. And just because you're not the best
Doesn't mean that you can't contribute to the effort. God wants us to also contribute and when it came to the English tongue
St. Jerome didn't translate the Bible in the English. So how is that gonna benefit English speakers to have st
Jerome's Latin it's not
So even if st. Jerome was the greatest person to ever translate the Bible he's dead and we need an English Bible
So, you know who's God's gonna use? He's not gonna bring st. Jerome back from the dead
He's gonna use you know, the men here they're gonna use Richard Bancroft and they're gonna use Sir Lancelot Andrews
and they're gonna use the men that are here that could benefit the church and
What I love about this is
how
They have this attitude of I want to do something profitable
I don't want to just go to church and just do nothing for God and not add to the kingdom of God
I want to be profitable. I want to do something and let me tell you something. Here's a way you can always do that
So when?
If you get someone say that's someone that I didn't get saved or anybody else got say you helped
You can contribute to the kingdom of God, but don't be a Christian that never adds a brick to the building add bricks to the building
do something profitable for God do something with your life and
Also, let us not look to those of the past and say what they built cannot be improved upon
What if they had done that when we'd have a bishops or we'd have a Geneva, but you know what?
I'm glad we have a King James
I'm glad that they said, you know what?
This could be improved upon
Let's improve upon it. Let's make the King James Bible and you know what I apply this also to church
You
Know I'm very thankful that we have independent fundamental Baptist churches that exist in our area and they're great
And what I condemn the ancient no, but you know what? I like even more than that is the new IFB
And let us not condemn the ancient
Let us not look at those before us and say you know what they were just wicked and evil and deceit
No, no, they were great and wonderful and did awesome works and we look to them with respect and dignity
But we say hey, I think there's something we could add to the conversation. I
think there's still something here that we can improve upon and if you understand my
Perspective of church history is that churches can continually get better until the time of Christ
There's no doctrine that I believe that says you know what church was perfected in acts 2 and and we can only
Go back to that. We can only come to that perfection level. No. No, I think that churches can keep getting better
Just like when I look in the 1600s, I don't look at any church in the 1600s and think I wish we had that church
Because none of them I'm like, I don't want you have some weird stuff going on
You have some good stuff. You have some weird stuff and it's like, you know, you should be you I be
You know, we should keep improving church we should keep making church better and look I believe that our church is
an improvement on churches of the past
We're cleaning things up and look I think our church right now can be an improvement from what it was last year
Let's not look at our church and say you know what we've arrived
But rather look at it as a project where we can keep building it and making it better and better and of course God
Blesses that which is biblical more
Can God use the woman at the well who's in adultery to get people saved?
Yes, but you know who he's gonna get more people saved
through Peter
He's gonna bless that which is biblical more. He's gonna bless he's gonna use the cleaner vessel more
He's gonna do more through those who separate themselves and dedicate themselves of the work and are a willing vessel
He can do more through them
And so if our church wants to be greatly used by God then we ourselves should always look to how we can improve
You as a Christian you should look to how can I improve I need to learn more I need to grow more
I need to study more. I need to become a better soul winner. I need to become a better father
I need to become a better husband. I need to become a better wife. I need to become a better child
I'm gonna become a better just Texan. You know I'm gonna get beans out of my chili, and and I'm gonna become
an
Improvement of myself right or I'm just gonna become a Texan
You know that's an improvement for many people
right
I'm gonna become a Baptist improvement. You know I'm gonna become a fundamental Baptist right there's there's always ways to improve ourselves and let us not
think oh well
You know I can't be like them or they were great or or even just even men today
Thinking you know that guy is better than me. I can't I can't achieve that don't limit yourself by other people
This this is our standard
Don't even look at somebody and say like well
I don't know if I could be like that person who cares your goal is Jesus
Not some man in the flesh don't limit yourself and don't think more highly of men than you ought to think
Many men that were great fell and had problems and have issues and if we're looking to men
Then we'll never really achieve what God wants us to we should be looking to Christ and his example of perfection and always
Trying to improve ourselves and always being willing to get better
And you know what I love the new I have be I love that our church is trying to get better I
Love that we're not content to do things just because but rather we study the scriptures to make sure whether those things are so I
Like that we test things and we're trying things we're trying to experiment and see you know
What's the best way to get people saved one of the best places to go and you know how do we do missions?
And how do we just maximize getting people saved and what kind of methods and
Improving our doctrine and and improving anything and everything instead of looking to the world and just saying oh
Well what they gave us is all that we can use you know
I'm so glad that the King James translators didn't say well. We're locked in with the bishops
No, they said here's a King James
And you know what why should we be content with what's been handed down to us and say we can't improve that
Look
You know when it comes to this you can always refine things you can always make things better when you look to the scripture
And we compare things in the Bible. I think you can always find improvement
No one's gonna be like yep
I'm looking at this and it's you're perfect if you come up to me and say like pastor said I don't need more Bible
I already arrived
You're a fool, and why would I think that our church could be like that? Oh the church has already arrived no no
Let us continue to improve and let us fine-tune and let us make sure that we're as biblical as we can possibly be and
That we're striving for the right attitude and the right mindset and of course
How do you make something pure you got to come from the right source isn't that where we kind of started with?
We're not gonna get better from a defiled source
we're gonna get better from the pure source and being washed by the water of the word and
And cleaning ourselves up the most appropriate way, and we become more like Christ the more we read the scripture
And we're coming from the right source
This is why many Christians don't even live a separated life that don't use the King James Bible. Let's be honest
but they're not using they're not using the source that could actually clean them up and
And of course you know a dirty rag isn't gonna clean the table as well as a clean rag
That's why we have the King James Bible
And we want to get this and does the hands of people we want people reading this and studying this and
Meditating on this and that's what's gonna make everything better including our country
So I want America to be better there is only
One way to make America great. It is the King James Bible
You know what made America great the King James Bible. You know it makes this church great the King James Bible. You know it makes me
Worth anything the King James Bible the only good qualities
I have are because of the King James Bible
The only good qualities of my family are coming from the King James Bible the only good qualities of this church are coming from the King
James Bible the only reason why are so many so effective is because it's coming from a King James Bible
The only reason why our country was great for so long is because their laws were coming from where from the King James Bible folks
Why was it that we had such a great country is because it was coming from the King James Bible
And the only way to make something great or to have purity is to come from a pure source
Which is the King James Bible?
It's not going to come from the politicians. It's not going to come from secular universities
it's not going to come from logic and reasoning it'll only come from putting faith in this and
trusting in this and let this be your light and your lamp and
Let this be what washes you and let us appreciate the Bible more and more
And and not look to ourselves as we've arrived but rather how can we improve?
Let's close in prayer. Thank You Heavenly Father for the Bible and thank you so much for giving us such a pure
Source that can clean up our lives and clean up our families and clean up our church can clean up our country
Can clean up the world and I pray that you would help motivate us to get busy and do something for God
Obviously we all have different tasks. We all have different abilities, but we all
Were created with a purpose to do something and to
Improve the kingdom of God and I pray that you would put it deep into our hearts that we would strive to be profitable
That we wouldn't just be Christians in vain
But rather we would take the opportunities
we have to serve you to witness to the loss to get people saved and
most importantly to get people back to the the real Bible the King James Bible and
I pray that you would just help use our church for your honor and glory in Jesus name. We pray amen
All right in closing let's go to song 64
Song number 64
Shall we gather at the river
Song number 64
Shall we gather at the river
Song number 64 shall we gather at the river everybody singing out on the first
Shall we gather at the river?
Where bright angel feet have trod
With its crystal tide forever
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
Flows by the throne of God
On the bosom of the river
Where the Savior King we own
We shall meet in sorrow never
Neat 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
There we reach the shining river
Lay we every burden down
Grace our spirits will deliver
And provide a robe and crown
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
Soon we'll reach the shining river
Soon our pilgrimage will cease
Soon our happy hearts will quiver
With the melody of peace
Yes, we'll gather at the river
The beautiful the beautiful
Gather with the Saints at the river
That flows by the throne of God
Great job everybody. You were all dismissed
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