Amen, you guys are there in second Peter. We're going to look at verse number 16 where the Bible says for we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we're eyewitnesses of his majesty.
for he received from God the Father honor and glory
when there came such a voice to him
from the excellent glory.
This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
Tell my sermon this morning is lies about the Bible.
Let's pray.
Give the God these wonderful day.
Thank you so much for everything that you do for us.
God, I just pray that you be with me right now
as I preach the sermon.
God, I pray that you'd fill me with your Holy Spirit.
God.
I pray that you'd help me to preach a sermon that would be edifying to the people and help
them to understand this topic more, God, and I just pray that you would help me to debunk
some of the lies that people spread about your word and just some of the fables that
are out there.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
I'm talking about my sermon again, like I said, is lies about the Bible.
keep your finger here in second Peter and go with me if you would to Matthew 17 verse number one
Matthew 17 verse number one while you guys are turning there I just want to say again thank you
guys everybody that showed up um to the cleaning thing yesterday it's a really big help um
If you look at the before and after pictures in that WhatsApp group, it's phenomenal how this room looks like.
Maybe we just got blinded to it, but like when you see the before and after picture, it's just amazing.
Like just from filthy dirty to like nice and bright in here and the carpets look nice and decent.
And so we've done this room and then now the auditorium now.
So we'll just basically try to migrate until we can get all this building done.
But it just takes a long time and we were there from like one to like what?
six o'clock or something like that yesterday.
I mean, a couple of people left a little bit early,
but like, I mean, that's a long time.
That's like a whole shift at work
that you guys are putting in.
And praise God and thank you for it.
really like when you're working at the church we should always just understand
that we're really working for God at the end of the day and so it's like your
labor is not going to be in vain and it's doubly not in vain because of the fact
that it looks great in here as well so that's great. We got donuts for
everybody not just for people that came but for everybody just kind of a little
celebration for that.
It's not much, but that's all we can do, okay?
That's all we got.
It's like when your boss at work, like,
you guys killed it this year,
we're gonna have like a pizza party, okay?
But that's all I can offer you guys, I'm sorry.
You guys are going to Matthew 17 verse number one, though the reason I'm having you guys turn here is because of the fact that this is what this is referring to in 2 Peter.
It says in Matthew 17 1 it says in after six days Jesus taketh Peter James and John his brother and bringing them up into an high mountain apart.
was transfigured before them and his faith did shine as the sun and his
raiment was white as the light. So just really quickly here because I'm not
sure if people are familiar with this word like when Jesus was transfigured.
What it means when Jesus is transfigured in my opinion that he's
basically
transforming into his glorified body or you would maybe say that he's appearing
in his like true likeness and as he truly is because it's important to realize
about Jesus Christ that Jesus Christ was not just a created being he was from
everlasting is what the Bible says he wasn't like when he came on to Bethlehem
he took on flesh he was manifesting the flesh
But Jesus Christ was not, that was not his origin point.
He's from everlasting.
He didn't have, like he's not like a creative being.
It says everything was created by Jesus Christ.
In fact, that we see in this world.
And so basically when he's transfiguring here,
he's kind of appearing in his, maybe you'd say,
like his full glory.
Because in first John three, two, I'll just read this,
just listen to what this says.
It says,
Beloved now are we the sons of God and it does not yet appear what we shall be but we know that we when he shall appear
That's Jesus we shall be like him and listen what it says right here. It says
for we shall see him as he is."
So we'll see Jesus in his true glory,
in his true form when he comes back to rapture us one day.
And so we see that the disciples get
like an early sneak peek of that
when he transfigures himself on the mountain.
But that was just a little bit of a side note
just because I've seen people get confused
about that word transfigure sometimes.
Look at verse number three of the same title
that Matthew 17, it says,
with him, then appeared Peter and said unto Jesus,
Lord, it is good for us to be here.
If thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles,
one for thee and one for Moses and one for Elias.
While he yet spake, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them
and behold a voice out of the cloud,
which said, this is my beloved son
in whom I am well pleased, hear ye him.
The reason I had you turn to this outside of it just being where this is quoted from
is the fact that I think that it's important to get the context of this voice
to kind of get the gravity of what Peter's saying here in 2 Peter chapter 1.
Because if you guys kept your finger there, look at verse number 18 now with that context
with this voice coming to them out of heaven.
It says in verse number 18, it says,
And this voice which came from heaven, we heard when we were with him in the holy mount.
But then look at what verse number 19 says.
We also have a more sure word of prophecy.
We're into you do well that you take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn
and the day start rising in your hearts, knowing that it is first
that no prophecy of the scriptures of any private interpretation
for the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man,
but holy men of God's spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
So what Peter is saying here?
is this. He's saying that something that's more trustworthy and that's more sure than
experiencing a miracle itself or hearing someone experience a miracle is the word of God that we
have. That is what Peter's teaching us and so many people nowadays that are saved and
unsaved to life, they want to seek for a miracle, they want to seek for a sign, they want to seek
for something like that to confirm their faith. But what Peter is saying here is that something
is the Word of God itself, the written Word of God that was delivered to us
through men, by men through the power of the Holy Ghost is what the Bible
said in those verses. He's saying that this is more sure than any miracle that
we could experience on this earth and someone might say like well that's a
pretty bold statement but go to Galatians 1-8 real quick I'll show you
that this is true. Galatians 1 verse number 8
The Bible is saying that more important than just a random miracle that someone could tell you about,
or even that you could experience yourself, he says the word of God is a more sure word of prophecy.
We see this here in Galatians 1-8, it says,
but though we, that's the apostles, is what he's talking about, and Paul specifically,
or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you,
let him be accursed.
saying, if we, the church fathers, okay, as the Catholic church would say, turn
around and preach another gospel to you that's outside of the word of God, who
are you supposed to go with? Supposed to go with what the word of God says, not
the church fathers, okay? And then he even says this, he doubles down this and
says, or an angel from heaven, if an angel from heaven comes down to you,
What is that? It's a miracle, right?
He says if an angel from heaven came down to you
and preached to you another gospel,
he said, let him be accursed as well.
So Paul was saying this, that what's more sure
and what's more trustworthy than a miracle
than the church fathers,
than an angel coming down from heaven
and telling you that you need to change your ways.
He says the word of God is more sure
than all of those things combined.
It's the most sure thing that we have on this earth.
By the way, this is kind of a side note, but Muhammad and Joseph Smith would have done well to read this verse right here in Galatians.
Not that Muhammad could have read anyways because he was in a literate pedophile that was stupid, that couldn't even read or write.
It's like, that's your prophet, that's your man of God that you're going to double down on, that's crazy.
And he's a pedophile on top of all that. It's like, what in the world?
They did them well to realize this verse that says that even if an angel did come to Muhammad,
even if an angel did come to Joseph Smith, which they didn't anyways,
they still should be accursed because the gospel that the Muslims preach and that the Mormons preach
is different than the gospel of the Bible. So they should be accursed. So if the Muslims like,
you just don't believe that an angel came to Muhammad, I don't care if an angel came to Muhammad.
Truly, I don't because the word of God and its gospel is more important than any miracle
miracle than we could see on this earth. And that's what Peter wants us to understand. And
that's what I want you to understand this morning. First thing is that
The word of God is more sure than anything that we have in this world.
And so if you want to increase your faith, it needs to be with the word of God.
Because the word of God is the only miracle that you're going to get on this earth.
Because in times past, the Bible says that God spake to us through
prophets and he did miracles.
But he says in the last days in Hebrews 12, verse number one,
or in Hebrews one, verse number one, he says that he speaks to us by his son and
is his son. It's the word of God, right? So he speaks to us through the Bible
nowadays, not through miracles any longer.
Go through it to Genesis 3, verse number one. I want you to understand that
miracles fail people. And we see this later on in the
Bible, and it's prophesied later on in the Bible, like
what does the Antichrist come to this earth and do to convince people to
believe in him? He does lying wonders is what the Bible says, right?
Miracles basically is what he's doing to get people to believe on him
That's why Paul's saying hey don't go with just what your eyes are telling you go with the word of God tells you
Not what this world will throw at you also if you remember the story with Janssen Jambri's with the
What is it the magicians in Egypt?
They were doing lying wonders as well, but who was true at the end of the day
It was Moses and his God rather that was true at the end of the day, so just realize
that miracles are not as sure as the word of God.
And people would say like,
if I just had God come down to me and tell me this or that,
I'd believe him.
But here's the thing, and that's what a lot of people beg for and they ask for, but the Bible says
that a wicked generation seeks after a sign, and they seek after miracles. And the Bible also
shows us that God did so many miracles in the Old Testament, but not everybody believed.
Because people have this thing like, if I see a miracle, then I'll believe. It's just not true,
Abraham to send someone to save his family he says that if they don't believe the word of God while
they're alive on this earth then even if one went to them from the dead they would not be persuaded
to believe okay so we need to trust in the word of God above everything on this on this earth
above everything excuse me everything else on this earth don't trust in anything else that
would contradict the word of God but I also want you to understand this morning as you guys are
the devil knows that we as Christians depend on the Bible.
That's why he works overtime to get us not to believe the Bible and to get us to doubt
the Word of God. And this shouldn't surprise us because of the fact that this is what the devil
did all the way from the beginning in the Garden of Eden. Look at Genesis 3.1. It says,
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made and he
There's no new thing under the sun.
The very first attack that the devil did on this earth to Eve was to try to get her to doubt the word of God.
So if he did that all the way back from the beginning with Eve and tried to get her to doubt the words of the Lord,
he sure as heck is going to be doing the same thing to us nowadays to get us to doubt the word of the Lord as well.
And the thing is,
the devil's doing a pretty good job at it nowadays with how you see modern Christianity.
Like people don't even know if we have the real Bible or not.
Like we go to people's dorm, they're just like,
I'm not sure if there is a true copy of the word of God nowadays.
And what is that? It's Satan succeeding,
getting people to doubt the word of God like he tried to do from the beginning.
This also shouldn't surprise us though.
Go to John 8 verse 44, John 8 verse 44.
because the devil does this through spreading lies about the Bible and
This is something that he's also done from the beginning as well
You guys are going to John 8 verse number 44 the devil and his minions spread lies about the Bible to get us to doubt
The word of God and John 844 it says year of your father the devil and the lust of your father
He will do he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he
Speak of the lie. He speak of his own for he is a liar and the father of it
So because we know that the word of God is a more sure
word of prophecy and because we know the devil wants us to doubt the word of God
and because we know that the devil uses lies to get us to doubt the word of God
what I want to do this morning is is to bunk some lies that are spread and that
are commonly believed about the Bible so that you guys could be edified by that
and not fall to the wilds and the traps of the devil because a lot of these
things I'm gonna bring up to you are very prevalent in Christianity they're
and people that are in a lot of these modern churches go to Psalms 12 verse number six
Psalms 12 verse number six if you would and I'll read for you guys Isaiah 40 verse number eight
Psalms 12 verse number 6. The first lie that I want to talk about this morning is that the Bible has been corrupted.
People say this kind of thing all the time. We don't have the real Word of God. It's been corrupted. It's been changed.
We don't really know what the originals say. The Bible says in Isaiah 40 verse number 8, you guys are going to Psalms 12 verse 6.
It says, the grass withereth, the flower fadeeth.
but the word of our God shall stand forever.
And in Psalm 126 it says,
the words of the Lord are as pure words
as silver tried in the furnace of earth,
purified seven times.
And look what he says at the beginning of verse seven.
He says,
thou shalt keep them, O Lord.
Thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever.
People will say to us like, how can we trust the Bible?
Like, how do you trust that mankind
kept the Bible preserved?
But here's the thing, they're asking the wrong question.
Because it's not mankind's job to keep the word of God pure and to keep it uncorrupted.
The Bible told us right there in Psalms 12 verse 7 that thou shalt keep them.
It's God's responsibility to keep his words pure.
So nothing that mankind could try to do
against the Bible would ever succeed.
Like they can maybe change it in like temporary ways
of like, you know, the modern versions that we see.
But what the Bible is promising us here
is that God will keep his words from this generation forever.
So we'll always have the word of God.
Every generation has always had the word of God.
Go to 1 Peter 1, 23 if you would.
1 Peter 1.
verse number 23
Why do I trust the Bible? It's because God said that he would preserve his own words and people would say like well, that's circular logic
Well, here's the thing. It's no more circular than the Big Bang Theory
That's what they like the Big Bang Theory is literally circular reasoning like and then they just paint like a science brush over it
It's like we believe that everything exploded or nothing exploded and created everything
It's like okay. Well, where did that nothing that exploded to come from? It's just always been there
it's like what? So like atheists will be like this is science that dirt and just matter is eternal
but then when you tell them that God's eternal they're like oh what a fairytale
What in the world? I think it's more realistic that God would be eternal than that the matter of the universe would be eternal.
What in the world? Because the matter of the universe has a creator and if it's a created thing, it has a creator.
So if they want to say that we believe in a circular reasoning, the big bang theory is circular reasoning, no doubt.
Like, how do you explain that away? It's just always been here. Okay, that doesn't sound like science.
That sounds like you just wanted to believe anything as long as it's not God.
I had a guy say to me one time at the door when I was out stalling with him.
He told me, he's like, I believe in God.
And he was like, I believe like, you know, a lot of the, there's a lot of truths in the Bible, but he said,
but in reality, he was like, I just don't think that we have like 100% accurate word of God.
And I said to him, I was like, well, sir, if you believe that God's powerful enough to create the heavens and the earth,
to create humans and life as we know it, to create the stars and the moon and the sky and the sun out there,
I was like, why do you not believe that he's powerful enough to keep his own words in a book?
You know what I mean?
And he was kind of like, oh yeah, it's a good point.
And it's true though, because we just realized
that everything's possible from God.
And the fact that God promises us
that he'll keep his words from this generation forever
should just give us a confidence
that we do have the word of God nowadays.
It is not corrupted.
If the word of God is corrupted, then God's a liar, okay?
Because he didn't keep his own words.
And that's like a problem I want you to understand as well.
I've seen textual critics, okay?
That are Christians, like, and they'll be like,
We may have lost some stuff in the Bible, but nothing that changes the gospel, so it's not a big deal, right?
Wrong, that's a huge deal because he said he would keep his words from this generation forever
So if he didn't do that, then he's a liar. He didn't just say that he preserved the gospel
He said he preserved his words, okay?
And so like if they like because I've seen like this guy who was saying like yeah
Like I forget what story was in the Bible that he's talking about. I think it was
David and Goliath he was saying that he thought that the brother of David really killed Goliath or something like that
He's like but either way doesn't really matter because it's not affecting the gospel
It's like, no, that does matter.
What are you talking about, okay?
What is that though?
It's Satan trying to get us to doubt the word of God.
Maybe we just don't really know
what happened in the Old Testament, right?
You guys are there in 1 Peter 1, 23.
If we've lost any part of the Bible,
we might as well just pack it up and call it a day.
Like, why would you serve a God
that can't preserve his own words,
like when he told you from the Bible?
And why would you serve a God that's a liar?
Because the Bible says that God cannot lie.
So if he didn't preserve his words,
He lied to us, okay?
And why would you believe any of the Bible
if you found that he lies even one time?
It doesn't make sense.
Louis says in 1 Peter 1.23,
it says being born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible by the word of God,
which liveth and abideth forever.
I bring you to this verse just
because I want you to understand that Jesus
is obviously the word of God.
But like when you compare these things,
it makes sense in why we believe that the Bible's perfect.
Because if Jesus is perfect,
and he's the word of God. And the word of God is perfect. What does that mean? It has no spot.
It has no blemish. It has no mistake. Jesus had no spotter blemish when he was on this earth,
and the word of God should have no spot and no blemish in it as well. Because it should be
reflecting Jesus Christ, right? Go if you would. Where'd I got you guys going next? Oh,
Here's something that people will also say they'll be like don't you know like that the Bible was just edited in history like things
We're just taken out of it and added to it. You just have to ask them
When did that happen like?
I don't know like sometime in history. I'm sure I just want to understand people just repeat stuff and say stuff like it's true
And they just lie they just spread like this parrot lies. Oh, yeah
There was I'm sure that there was a king in history that just like took the Bible and just change it all and made it fit
Whatever you wanted to say, it's like who is the king that did that then? Where is the evidence that this happened?
There is no evidence that that happened. You know what that comes from?
Atheist Facebook memes and atheist Reddit memes, that's where that comes from.
They have no proof of anything like that and you'd be stupid to believe something like that
anyways because of this. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of what the Bible is
because throughout history the Bible was not just one whole book put together like we have nowadays
which by the way that's a great blessing that we have that we have the whole word of God just right in front of us.
But the Bible is a book of books that was spread out and translated into different languages
So that nobody in history could just take like that's what they think
They didn't think they could just take like one Bible that there wasn't history and just like change it
And it's just like oh our faith is derailed
It's like no it was not all put together throughout history and God does that as a safeguard to us so that
Nobody could just take it and edit it all or add a bunch of stuff to it because it's like nowadays
A good example that is like I have this Bible here if I just change a bunch of stuff in this Bible
a thousand years past and they find this Bible, but then they find all of your
guys's Bibles. They're gonna look at it and be like, wait a minute, this one
Bible changed a bunch of stuff and everybody else's Bible says the same
thing. So this guy must have changed the Word of God. It's the same thing. That's
why God didn't put it all together at just one point in history until it could
be put in a printing press and spread out through all the whole world, okay?
So nobody could just grab the Bible like they that's what people actually think though
They just think it was like there was one Bible throughout history that was just passed down and someone could just be like
Let me change it real quick stupid. It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what the word of God is though
Here's another thing is that
For the New Testament alone, we have 20 000 plus
manuscripts
That's not even including like the Old Testament. Okay
20,000 manuscripts for just the New Testament. It's the most preserved book in the history of the ancient world, okay?
And then the next like thing that even comes somewhat close to that is the Odyssey in the Iliad, which just has like
2,000 copies, okay? So the Bible has 20,000 manuscripts, and it's 20,000 plus actually because they kind of debate a little bit over
But I saw numbers like 20,000, 25,000, 30,000, okay? But here's the thing
That's a lot more than just 2,000 for the Odyssey and the Iliad.
That's a huge amount to where that they can compare things.
And also, when I was saying it's spreading to different languages,
that's a huge benefit as well because if one country goes perverse
and starts trying to grab all the Bibles,
you can check a different country's language and make sure
and see who's lining up properly throughout history.
I probably should mention as well that some of those 20,000,
the 25,000 that we have,
Would be like partial copies. Okay, just for clarity's sake so that you don't think I'm like deceiving or anything like that
But nevertheless, the Bible is the most preserved book that we ever have in history
Okay, which is pretty amazing and it shows that God preserved his word just like he said he would
Um, yeah, I have you guys there in
Where is it second Samuel verse chapter number one verse number 18?
This is like the thing about because people will also say like well, what about like the Catholic Church?
Didn't they like take the Bible and corrupt it? Here's the thing though
The Catholic Church is not as powerful as God and if God said that he preserved his words
than he did, right? So the Catholic Church failed in all their efforts to take the Bible away from
us common people, okay? Because that's what the Catholic Church actually believes. They don't want
the common person to read the Bible. Like, how obvious is it that they're of the devil when they
don't want you to read the Word of God? It's ridiculous. They're like, well, that's why there's
all these denominations out there because people just have free access to the Word of God. It's like
Okay, well all these denominations as a whole are a lot better than the corrupt evil depraved Catholic church
That does everything contrary to what the Bible says
I've made this joke before but it's so true if you just find a doctor in the Bible and flip it on its head and teach the opposite
It's usually what the Catholic Church actually believes because they just go they don't care about the word of God
They check they care about what the church fathers say well the church father said this, but what do we even see in Galatians?
What did Paul say?
If we, a church father, comes to another gospel, you should believe the word of God instead, right?
So wherever the Catholic church contradicts the Bible, they're wrong, okay?
And their efforts failed because they tried to hide the word of God from the common people,
but guess what? Now it's spreading to all the world, and there's nothing they could do.
Now they can't blind people and deceive people like they've done in the history's past.
You guys are there in second Samuel 1 verse number 18 first one of my sermon is that
The Bible a lie about the Bible is that the Bible has been corrupted
The Bible absolutely has not been corrupted God has preserved his word from every generation forward
And we have the true written Word of God today
And don't ever let anybody doubt make you doubt that because that is of the devil the devil wants you to doubt the Word of
God, that's what we've seen the Bible point number two in this sermon is this
is that there's books missing from the Bible.
You guys are there in 2 Samuel 1, verse number 18,
look what the Bible says.
It says,
Also, he made them teach the children of Judah
the use of the bow.
Behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.
There's kind of like three sub points.
I want to split this up in two.
Number one is this,
when it comes to books being missing from the Bible.
People think that there's books that are missing from the Bible because the Bible refers to other books in history, okay?
Go to 1st Kings 14 verse number nine. Oh, no, excuse me. Go to Esther 10 verse two real quick Esther 10 verse number two
That's where I want you to go
People will take this verse in the book of Jasher as I'm having you turn there or excuse me into the book of Jasher
People will take this verse in second Samuel and say whoa
The Bible said that there's a book called the book of Jasher and if you haven't realized there's no book of Jasher in your Bible
So we must be missing a book from the Bible is what people will say
But here's the thing there's a couple things I want to bring about the book of Jasher
There is no surviving copy of the book of Jasher
Nowhere. They have like a 1751 forgery that everybody knows is fake.
That's the only copy that they have of the book of Jasher.
But the fact that the book of Jasher didn't survive should prove to you this.
It wasn't the Word of God because what did God tell us?
He'd preserve his words, right?
So if there's no surviving copy, then it wasn't the Word of God.
But I do understand why people get a little confused about this because they're like,
well, why is the Bible referring to another book if it's not really the Bible?
And for clarity's sake as well, I will show you that sometimes when the Bible references other books, it is because they are a real book in the Bible.
Okay, we see an example of that in First Kings 14 where I'm going to read for you guys.
It says, in the rest of the Acts of Jeroboam, how he warred and how he reigned, behold, they're written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
And we have the book of chronicles, right?
2 Kings 15.6 says, and the rest of the Acts of Azariah, excuse me, and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
So you have the Kings of Judah and you have the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
Which lines up with what we have in the Bible.
We have Kings and we have Chronicles, right?
But here's the thing, and why I have you guys in Esther 10 too, is I want you to understand that just because the Bible uses this phrase, it doesn't mean it's referring to a book in the Bible, okay?
So look at Esther 10, verse number two, I'll prove this to you. It's kind of easy to understand once you're going to see this verse, it says,
And all the acts of his power and of his might and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, where did the king advanced him?
Are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of media in Persia?
Now I realize like media and Persian Persia were like a wicked he the nation and all their
History, okay, like do you really think that there's a book of the Meads and the Persians that's an inspired word of God?
Absolutely not right
So this is kind of showing us with him referring to this book that not every time he uses that phrase
Is it a book that's in the Bible?
Because again, there is no book of the kings of the Medes and Persians that has survived either,
which proves that's not the Word of God either.
And even so, this is just a secular book.
And the Bible's doing this as like an evidence to the people at that time that they can be like,
hey, if you don't believe what I'm saying, go check what this secular person said.
And the same thing with the book of Jashar.
Go check with what the secular book of Jashar said is what he's basically doing.
Not that he's saying that it's a Word of God, okay?
Go to Jude 1, verse number 14.
Jude 1 verse number 14 so just because the Bible refers to something like in that phrasing it doesn't mean it's a real
Book of the Bible sometimes it is but sometimes it's not so you have to kind of differentiate that
One more dishonorable mention for this sub point
is the book of Enoch.
Now there's no mention of a book of Enoch,
but there is this phrasing that people use.
It says in Jude 1.14, it says,
and Enoch also, the seventh from Adam prophesied
these saying, saying,
behold, the Lord cometh with 10,000s of his saints.
And people will take this verse and be like,
well, if Enoch was prophesying,
then there must be a book.
of Enoch. But there's a couple things I want you to realize about this. Number one is this is that
there's been thousands of prophets throughout history and not all of them got a book, okay? There's only
We got 66 books in the Bible, so that's just evidence that just because there was a prophet out there
That doesn't mean that they had their own book. They did prophesy the word of God
But it wasn't for always for building the Bible. That's important to understand
Because Noah preached a lot of things too, and it's like it doesn't tell us what he said
But there's no like little book of Noah. Okay, the story that we get from Noah is in Genesis
But also, number two, because people will take a book nowadays called the Book of Enoch and be like,
oh, he did write it all down. It's right here.
It's right next to the section of the Book of Enoch where it has like the 450-foot-tall giants, okay, that are roaming the earth.
The Book of Enoch that they have nowadays is just Bible fan fiction.
And very poorly written at that. And the only reason, the only reason that people give that any credit...
is because they believe in the Nephilim doctrine from Genesis chapter 6, okay?
They want something to prove that there's these giants on the earth,
so they cleave to the book of Enoch, that's a garbage book, and they're like,
yeah, this proves that there was all these giants in the earth in those days.
Here's the thing though, the giants that we see in the Bible were not 450 feet tall, like Jack of the Beanstalk, okay?
We're talking about guys that are like, you know,
like 10 feet tall or nine feet tall, okay?
We're not talking about this abnormal craziness, okay?
Like, I really just think it's almost like just like a,
like a.
a plant to just make Christianity look stupid.
That's what I feel like the book of Enoch is, okay?
Cause then there's Christians that will actually promote this
and be like, there was 450 foot tall giants.
I saw this meme on Facebook where there's like giant bones.
No, dude, those are fake, okay?
Come on, dawg, like it's so stupid, okay?
the book of Enoch is trash. And by the way, the Nephilim doctrine is trash too,
because Nephilim just means giant. And when it talks about the sons of God
being with the daughters of men, it's not talking about angels because angels are
not the sons of God. That's not what the Bible says.
It's talking about saved people being with unsafe people, okay?
That's what it's talking about. And there were giants in the earth in those days,
but then there's giants in the earth after. It also says in that same passage of
product of angels sleeping with mankind on earth.
The Bible even says, Jesus Christ says
that the angels aren't given in marriage.
They don't procreate.
Like what are you talking about?
It's all nonsense is what that is.
And it comes from people wanting to believe in fantasy
is what it comes from.
And people just not reading the Bible, okay?
Where you guys are in Jude one verse number 14.
Oh, man. I was about to have you guys turn to the book of Tobit, chapter 2, verse number 11, okay?
Okay, don't go there. Or maybe tell me if that's in your Bible, okay? I need to talk to you at the service.
The second point though, because we're talking about the books of the Bible that the Bible kind of references or whatever.
They're not scripture. We also have just the books that are obvious counterfeits
Like you have things like the infancy gospel of Thomas the book of Judas the book of Mary
These are just obvious
Garbage books the Bible and that nobody has ever considered the word of God except for like these weird sex throughout history that were like gnostics
Okay
I just want you to there's a couple reasons for that. It's not just me saying that number one though
You should just realize that the content in those books are just trash. They're garbage
They're not the voice of the shepherd you can go and read them yourself and realize this is just Bible fanfiction
Okay, this is garbage. Okay, and not very well written fanfiction at that
There's also just like logical reasons like all these books are written in Coptic not in Greek. They're from the wrong century
They're like like centuries past the books that we actually have in the Bible
And here's a huge thing from all these books is that they teach a bunch of
blasphemous stuff and a bunch of things that are contradictory to the Bible.
Like I talked about to you guys when I was preaching my Judas sermon that
there's a book called the Gospel of Judas which basically tries to make Judas
out to be the best disciple which sounds like it was just hand
written by Satan himself. Okay but in that book it's like talking
about Jesus being like an angel from the realm of
Jesus is like mocking his disciples in that book.
It's just like grade A garbage.
And there's like people like,
the history channel does this
and atheists will do this as well.
They'll be like, oh, these Christians,
you removed these books in the Bible
just because you couldn't handle
the real truth that they were teaching.
It's like, nobody ever believed these books
because they were garbage from the beginning.
Not even the Catholic church
could be deceived with those books.
So it's like, that must be pretty bad, okay?
The gospel the infancy because there's a gospel of Thomas, which is like a book of wisdom basically kind of like some
Proverbs or whatever or Ecclesiastes, but then there's a book called the infancy gospel of Thomas
Which talks about the childhood of Jesus Christ that book is just straight blacksmiths as well
It has Jesus killing a kid in the book and then like resurrecting them again from the grave just garbage, okay?
And they're like, the Christians just took that out
because they couldn't handle it.
It's like, no, this is trash.
That's why.
It has blasphemous as well.
What else did I had?
The Book of Mary.
I've never even read that, and I don't care too,
because I'm just like, it's already written in Coptic,
so I'm like, it's just the same old song and dance, OK?
The New Testament is written in Greek, OK?
So if there's a book that's not written in Greek,
I'm not even going to count it for a second
that it would be true.
What else we got here? Oh yeah, a dishonorable mention for the Book of Mormon
because they'll be like, this is a companion scripture for the Bible. No,
it's not. It's trash as well. Throw that in the trash next to
Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, okay? That's where they found them from anyways, okay?
One of those books, they found them in the trash and they're like, wow, this is
the true Word of God in a trash can about to be burnt. Yeah, that sounds pretty
legit, okay? It's still probably more accurate than the Book of Mormon, but it's
Same thing with the Quran they try to say like these are like companion scriptures with the Bible and the but I just want
I said this before but it's like I want you to notice that every false religion that there is they appeal to the Bible for some
Credit, but the Bible appeals to nobody else for credit
Okay, the Bible is not say go look in the Quran and then it talks about us or go look in the Book of Mormon
And it talks about me. It's like the Bible refers to itself. Okay, and it's validated by itself
It doesn't need any other false religion to validate it
People only do that, like Joseph Smith and like Muhammad,
to try to get some credit by clinging to the Bible, okay?
Point number three of this, okay, though, is speaking about trash is Catholic propaganda books, okay?
We have otherwise known as the apocrypha. If you don't know, I'm just gonna read for you the books that are in the apocrypha real quick, okay?
You have Tobit,
Judith, the wisdom of Solomon,
Cyriac, which is also called Ecclesiaticus,
Baruch,
first and second Maccabees, and then additions to Daniel and Esther, because I guess Daniel and Esther weren't good enough, okay?
Here's the thing about these books though. There's only two sects of people that actually
try to claim that the Apocrypha is the Word of God.
It's the Catholic Church and their bastard son, the Orthodox Church.
It's the only people that actually try to claim that the Apocrypha is the Word of God.
Everybody else can look at it and be like, no, these books are trash. These books are not the real Word of God.
And Catholics are funny though because they'll be like,
you better listen to us because we gave you the Bible.
It's like, that's funny because our Bible doesn't have
the same books as your Bible does.
So it seems like we don't have the same Bible.
You didn't give us nothing.
I almost had you guys turn to top it again.
Okay. I can't do that though.
Why don't we accept these books but outside of them being trash?
Number one I just want to say this is because none of these books are ever
mentioned in the Old Testament or the New Testament and that of itself is not
like an only proof because there are some books in Old Testament that aren't
quoted again in the New Testament but it should make you kind of stumble at them
for a second and be like why is it that coincidentally no book from the
Apocrypha is mentioned in the Old Testament or the New Testament? Isn't that
Number two is this is that they are full of heresy that contradict the Bible
Which I'm gonna get into in a little bit, but number three is that these books have just blatant historical
Facts that they get wrong like they have like just straight-up facts of history that they butcher that they can't even get right
And they're just not historically accurate
And I'm gonna show you that a little bit. I'm gonna just read for you guys real quick a couple of these verses from this false
book because
Nothing is a better proof to me that the apocrypha isn't the word of God than just actually listening to what it actually says, okay?
We hear the voice of the shepherd and the lack thereof in the apocrypha, okay?
Listen what it says in the wisdom of Solomon 8 19 and 20 and these things the verses I'm reading to you are from
Catholic approved translations, okay? Because I think they do the NABRE the neighbor
I don't know what that really stands for, but then they have their Catholic Bible must be like new American standard version
Revised edition. I think that's where it is. Okay, could be wrong though
But I took these why I've looked them up beforehand from Catholic Bibles
This what it says in wisdom of Solomon it says as a child
I was by nature well endowed and a good soul fell to my lot or rather being good
I entered an undefiled body
The Book of Mormon is calling for a copyright on that one guys
It's like what in the world like that's like the same thing that they believe about the spirit babies like if you're a good
Spirit, baby, you come down to be a white person if you're a bad spirit, baby
You come down to be a black person. That's what the Mormons teach, okay?
So maybe that's where they actually they probably ripped off this because it's probably before the Book of Mormon
Okay, it's like yeah, you're good in a past life so that you get a good body
It's not what the Bible teaches though. There is no life before this, okay?
It's weird.
Go to almost, oh, okay, no more.
No more Tobit.
Somebody go look up Tobit on your phone
so I can tell you the term there, okay?
Tobit one, three, though.
People will say, though, that's what I meant to do.
They'll give like an explanation of this,
and they'll be like, this is just poetic.
It's just a metaphor.
It's like a metaphor of what though? What is the metaphor here that you were good in a past life and gone a good body?
There's no metaphor there. Okay, that's just a heresy that they're teaching
Since like that what Jehovah's Witnesses do as well with hell. You're like hell is just a metaphor a metaphor for what?
What could be the significance of someone roasting in fire over and over again in the Bible? What's the picture there?
What's poetic about that?
There's nothing poetic if people really do die and they burn in hell. Okay, not a metaphor and neither was this one
That's just their explanation to kind of duck out of this
I'll read you guys top at the one three since I've been yapping about them a lot
And I meant to do a bunch of all these other ones
But I just got so lost on top it that I spent to bit
I think actually it's to bit want to say hobbit because that's what remind me okay, but I got lost in the the tobit sauce
Okay, so I just want I'm gonna re-read you a bunch of verses from it real quick. Okay
Because I skim read this, because I was, I got like like in trance and I was like, man, this is such trash.
It's like, I can't even leave this book, okay?
Look what it says, or I'll re-read what it says.
It says, I, Tobit, walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life,
and I performed many acts of charity to my brethren and countrymen who went with me into the land of the Syrians to Nineveh.
It's like, okay.
Then that's like the third verse, that's how he starts off the book basically of this.
And then in verse 16 of the same chapter it says,
In the days of Shalmanesser, I performed many charitable deeds for many kindred or for my kindred
members of my people, I would give my bread to the hungry and clothing to the naked.
If I saw one of our people who had died and been thrown behind the wall of Nineveh,
He's given us all these like great and wonderful works that he did. It's like that's crazy though because I don't remember asking
Okay, like why are you telling all this? It's like this is just like a carnal person though
This is what we see from unsaved people out the door so many right they want to tell you all their many wonderful works
They do
It's like he does this two times in one chapter.
But the New Testament and the prophets
that we see in the Bible,
they don't boast about how great they are.
They put all glory on Jesus Christ and the God of the Bible.
So that should just be a huge red flag to you, okay?
I've done just so many wonderful works.
It's like, maybe Tobit really was in the Bible.
We'll see him one day when he gets thrown in the Lake of Fire
because God's gonna say, I never knew you,
apart from me, because you work in equity, right?
Oh, this is weird, okay, just brace yourself with this, okay?
He says, this is a second chapter.
He says, on the same night I returned from burying him,
and because I was defiled, I slept by the wall
of the courtyard, and my face was uncovered.
I did not know that there were sparrows on the wall,
and their fresh droppings fell into my open eyes,
and white films formed on my eyes.
What in the world like why would you even say something like that?
It's just like I mean, I was just I was laughing when I was reading this. I was like what in the world
So he's like blind from this. It's like I almost like a rip on like
The the saw when he goes blind, but at least he goes blind in a way that makes sense
Not bird droppings falling in his eyes. What in the world?
You're like, this is the word of God brother. Yeah, not so
Tobit or Tobit excuse me to 11. It says then my wife Anna earned money at women's work
What women's work?
My wife Anna earned money at women's work brother, okay
This is weird too. This is like a couple verses later. He says and when she returned to me
Returned to me it began to bleach type of like a lamb that she got he said so I said where did you get the kid?
Talk about like a baby goat says is it not stolen?
or it's not stolen is it return it to the owners for it is not right to eat
that what is stolen and she said it was given to me as a gift in addition to my
wages and then Tobit Ranley's just like but I did not believe her and I told her
return it to the owners and I blushed for her then she replied to me where are
your charities and your righteous deeds you seem to know everything but it's like
I guess Tobit's telling everybody about his righteous deeds and his charity
What in the world? Super weird.
Tobit 3-8. This one's bizarre too. This whole book is bizarre though. It says
this is the third chapter of things I'm showing you in the book of Tobit, okay?
It says, for she had been given in marriage to seven husbands, but the wicked demon
Asmodeus kept killing them off before they could lay with her.
What? It's so bizarre.
Here's a huge problem with the book of Tobit, okay? Outside of it just sounding dumb up to this point, okay?
Tobit 6-7 it says then the young man asked the angel this question brother Azariah
What medicine is in the fish livers are in the in the fish's heart liver and gall?
He answered as for the fish's heart and liver if you burn them to make smoke in the presence of a man or a woman
Who is afflicted by a demon or evil spirit any affliction will flee and never return
straight-up witchcraft and it's like if you you know I guess Jesus didn't hear
about this one okay he's like he's like casting out demons like this one only
comes by prayer and fasting he didn't know the fish gall method at that time
okay I guess super weird Catholic sank sanctioned witchcraft okay
super bizarre. Tobit 617 says when you go into the bridal chamber take some of
the fish liver and the heart so he's just going back to the witchcraft and
place them on the embers intended for incense and an odor will be given off as
soon as the demon smells the odor it will flee and never show itself near her
again. Then listen to this it says then when you're about to
lay with her all kind of
Soften it, okay? He says both of you must first get up to pray
So it's like what in the world is like I just was like cringing when I was reading this then I was like
This is what's crazy. The Catholic Church is trying to tell me that that is the word of God
How bizarre put this you burn this fish girl and before you consummate the marriage with this girl
Guys get up and pray together real quick, and then you guys can go it's like
Why are we hearing about like the Bible is never this crass about stuff?
It's never like defiling your mind like the book of Tobit is trying to do right here, okay?
Tobit 12 verse 8 it says
Says prayer with fasting is good. This is probably why Dane converted over. Okay, you read this verse like oh man
That's my church right there
Prayer with fasting is good.
Almsgiving with righteousness is better than wealth of wickedness.
It is better to give alms than to store up gold.
Listen to what it says in verse nine.
It says, for almsgiving saves from death and purges all sin.
It's like I was just confused all this time. I truly thought it was the blood of Jesus Christ that purchased us from all this
All of our sin, but apparently in the book of Tobit it's saying that your money is what cleanses you from all your sin
Okay, this shouldn't be as a surprise to us from the Catholic Church though because this is where they get their indulgences from
The idea that you could just pay off all the sins that you do and then all of your sins are absolved
But that's blasphemy and it's garbage and it's like
Of all the churches, I can't tell you, I hate the Catholic Church above all of the rest of them, okay?
Not the people in the church, but the teachings that they have.
The false doctrine.
Because there's no church, there's no religion, there's no sect in the history of Christianity
that has brought more shame and disgust to the name of Jesus Christ than the Roman Catholic Church.
The Roman Catholic Church and its bastard son, the Orthodox Church, has put a hideous blow on Christianity.
where people look at it like it's a joke because of all their misdeeds and all their wicked doings.
It's terrible.
I hate the Catholic Church with a perfect hatred.
The false way that they teach, that is, okay?
You Protestants, you don't believe that this is an inspired board of God?
No, absolutely not, I don't.
Because Tobit sounds like trash, okay?
Not even like a decent attempt at writing scripture.
It's really kind of insane actually, okay?
Syriac 22 verse number three this is where Andrew Tate got on the committee for
writing the Bible apparently says it is a disgrace to be the father of an
undisciplined son and the birth of a daughter is a loss.
What?
But yeah, you got a son and he's bad. That's pretty bad, but I mean I imagine having a daughter
What in the world the red pill right in this in Syriac, okay?
And they have all these ways to explain this away. They're like actually the book of Syriac isn't like a command from God
It's just like him observing the wisdom of the world at that time
That's just straight up cope though, okay?
Just straight, they're huffing copium on that one, okay?
What it is, is it sounds bad in 2025,
so they want to kind of be like,
oh well, he's just speaking of the society at its time.
Okay, it's garbage.
It's not how the word of God operates anyways.
Barrick three, verse number four.
It says, Oh Lord, God, Oh Lord Almighty, God of Israel, hear now the prayer of the dead of Israel and the sons of those who have sinned before thee, the prayer of the dead.
There is no prayer for the dead, because when you die, if you die unsaved, guess where you go?
You go to hell. And if you die saved, you go to heaven. And you really never die, technically, right?
Because he says, he that live with them, believe in them, me shall never die.
But here's what they're trying to do with this verse. They're trying to get you to believe in
purgatory. That's what it is. The prayer of the dead. There is no prayer of the dead, okay?
Judith 1, verse number one, this is crazy, okay?
I just want you guys to understand the depths of stupidity
that Judith goes to.
And again, this is a for sure canon book that they believe.
They say, this is the word of God.
It says, it was the 12th year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar
who ruled over the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh.
At the time, our fax that was ruling over the Medes in ektbatna.
If you know your Bible, what was Nebuchadnezzar the king of?
battle on right now we kind of don't understand maybe like maybe you can't
picture in your brain how big of a blunder this is but like this is like
the equivalent of saying like me writing a book about Donald Trump being like
Donald Trump you know the king of Canada ruling in Toronto
That that's the equivalent of what it's saying right here. He's like be like just be like, oh, yeah
You know Alexander the Great the king of Rome ruled in you know Rome or something like that, right? Okay?
That's just like a fundamental huge historical blunder. Okay. This is just like just straight up
historical error, okay? Daniel 1.1 it says this, it says, in the third year of the
reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, unto
Jerusalem and besieged it. Nebuchadnezzar is the king of Babylon, okay? And again,
people might not think that that's that big of a deal, but the Catholic Church
even thinks it's a big deal, so they got an explanation for this, because I was
like, how would they explain this away? Because it's actually just a historical
When I looked up Catholic answers to find out what they'd say, it says this.
For example, in Judith 1.1,
Nebuchadnezzar is said to be the king of the Assyrians.
How can we take Judas seriously?
Which is a pause? It's about a lady Jew going to fight in battles too,
by the way, I should just have opened that context for you guys.
So already you shouldn't be taking it seriously.
But like some Joan of Arc ripoff or something like that,
or maybe Joan of Arc got the idea from this.
says, the opponent may ask when everybody knows that Nebuchadnezzar was the king of the Babylonians,
not the Assyrians. This is their answer. This is the way that they rebuttal this. It says,
that's precisely the point. One may reply everyone and certainly, this is the Catholic guy saying
this, everyone and certainly every illiterate Jew of the period knew which nation Nebuchadnezzar ruled.
The reason he is presented as the king of Assyria in the first verse of the book is that the author wants to telegraph to the audience right from the beginning that they are not reading in an ordinary historical writing.
What a cop out that is, just like, yeah, he's purposely getting the historical facts wrong
because he wants you to realize that this isn't like a standard historical writing.
I don't know how just blatantly blundering a fact makes your writing any more credible.
Stupid.
Then he yaps for a little bit, but this is an analogy that he uses to show this.
Lady Liberty, so like the USA, yeah?
And a general sent by Adolf Hitler,
the king of the Soviet Union,
you'd know instantly that you were reading,
what you were reading was not intended
to be in a historical account, but a parable,
or at least a cloaked retelling of a historical event.
So what does the Catholic Church do?
They're like,
Judith 1.1, that's just a parable, okay?
It's not a real story that it's talking about right here.
What a joke.
If I was an atheist and I heard that explanation
and I'd laugh, Christian, I'd be just scorned
because it's just so stupid and obvious at that point
that they're just coping for a book
that's clearly not the Word of God.
If there's any error in your book,
it's not the Word of God.
But instead of just admitting that they're wrong,
they can't do that.
They just say, they double down and are like,
Catholic Church, they're not trustworthy for anything. If they can't even admit that the book of Judah
that's not really the the word is that it's not the word of God then I wouldn't care about anything else that they have to say
Okay, it's weird. Um, I kind of getting towards the end of this sermon here. I think though
Yeah, I'll probably finish up this in another part just because I spent a long time reading through Tobit with you guys, okay?
Sorry to defile you guys like that, but I was just like when I was reading it
I was like this is just too good to cut any of this out
And I was just like this is like a perfect proof because what can get these people to believe that the book of Tobit isn't the word of God more
Than to just read for you the stupid things that it's saying that book, okay?
So point number one of this one was this that the Bible has been corrupted
That's a lie that people spread the word of God is preserved
It's as silver tried in a furnace of earth and God said that he preserved it from this generation forever
and point number two is that there was
The lie that people say is that there's books missing from the Bible the book of Jasher is
Not an inspired word of God obviously book. It's just referring to a historical book at that time
There's obviously I talk about the fakes like the infancy gospel Thomas if you're
trying to tell me that Jesus killed anybody I don't care about anything else
you have to say in that book okay super bizarre the book of Judas you should just
read the title of that and just like rip it up and throw it in a fire okay and then
you have the Catholic propaganda books I didn't even get into all of them like
there's so many more verses I try to use a couple different ones because I feel
like a lot of Baptists use like the same verses over and over again so I kind of
but these books are just full of heresy and we don't believe that we don't we don't just reject them
because they're too hardcore for us and like they debunk all of our teachings or something like that
it's because of the fact that they contradict the clear word of god okay so not everybody don't let
anybody deceive you with that with all being said let's pray do you have other god thank you so much
wonderful day thank you so much everything you do for us god thank you so much for this church i just
pray that you would um be with us as we go out so only god and help us to win people to you god
If you guys want to take your hand rules, we're going to turn to page number 63.
Page number 63.
What a day that will be.
No more tears to dim the eye All is peace forevermore
On that happy golden shore What a day, glorious day that will be
What a day that will be When my Jesus I shall see
Morsi
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