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Thus stand in his strength alone, The arm of flesh will fail you, Ye dare not trust your own. Put on the gospel armor, And watching unto prayer, Where duty calls o'er danger, Be never wanting there on the last. Stand up, stand up for Jesus, The stripe will not be long. This day the noise of battle, The next the victor's song. To him that overcometh, A crown of life shall be, He with the king of glory, Shall reign eternally. Amen. That'll teach me not to not stray from the book, right? I didn't even notice. That was great. All right, just a few announcements here before we sing our next song, which will be Grace Greater Than Our Sin, if I'm not mistaken. Just kidding. All right, whatever he says, all right? It's all good. It's on the hymn book. It's good. All right, so just a few announcements here. First and foremost, all right, if you can help us out with something, there's free wi-fi in here, and I'm sure you know. Get off the wi-fi, please, okay? Because we need to live stream this, and we need as much of the wi-fi power to be able to stream this. So if you can put your phones on airplane mode or something like that, that'd be a blessing. We're looking forward to having Pastor Jason Robinson preaching for us, and what we're going to do tonight, originally what we were going to do is, we were, I was going to preach tonight, and Pastor Robinson was going to preach tomorrow, but we're pretty mad, so we're just going to preach both of us tonight, all right? No, I'm just kidding. We're just going to get it in tonight, and then tomorrow at 10 a.m., we're going to meet here again for sowing, okay? So we'll meet here. We'll break up into teams, and then we'll disperse into our sowing areas, and so just keep that in mind. Both sermons are tonight, and then we're going to have sowing tomorrow. I heard that the area where the sowing was that was really good. It was really receptive, isn't that correct? Yeah, a lot of people got saved. Yeah, what's the salvations for today? 16. Okay, what? 14. Nice. Anybody else? Those are the two main groups. Okay, great. That was good sowing right there. So we're looking forward to tomorrow. Please be in prayer over that, that we see a lot more people saved, and so we'll meet here at 10 a.m., and then we'll disperse from there, and that'll be it, and so make sure you show up here tomorrow at 10 a.m., and so we'll take care of that. Now we're supposed to keep this this hotel a secret. Oh wait, it's gone. Okay, I see what you guys are doing. Nice. I think they're actually going to take it off when I come up to preach, okay? Because here's the thing, so these reprobates, they shut us, shut us down on the other venue that we had, and but it worked together for good, because all things work together for good to those who love God, and they shut us down. The place gave us a full refund, a full refund, so we didn't have to. We got it for free, so thank you, stupid reprobates, for helping us save money on this trip, amen? So go ahead. Hey, once we reveal what this hotel is, go ahead and call them. Maybe they'll give us a free refund too, amen? Yeah, amen. Yeah, thanks a lot. All things work together for good to those who love God, amen? So we're looking forward to tomorrow. Thank you for being here at the conference. It was exciting, and I'm thankful for Pastor Burzins, Pastor Joe Jones, and Pastor Jason Robinson, taking time out of their busy schedule to be with us, so make sure you thank them, and get your pictures taken with them, spend some time with them. They're here, and so take advantage of that, and so that's pretty much it. Let's go ahead and sing our next song, and then we'll get into the scripture reading. What song, Pastor Burzins? Leaning on the Everlasting Arms. That's page 17 in your song books, page number 17. All right, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms. We'll sing it out on that first verse. What a fellowship, what a joy divine, leaning on the everlasting arms. What a blessedness, what a peace is mine, leaning on the everlasting arms. Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms. Oh how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way, leaning on the everlasting arms. Oh how bright the path grows from day to day, leaning on the everlasting arms. Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms. What have I to dread, what have I to fear, leaning on the everlasting arms. I have blessed peace with my Lord so dear, leaning on the everlasting arms. Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms. Amen. All right, great singing this evening. All right, go ahead and take your Bibles to First Peter chapter number one. First Peter chapter number one. First Peter chapter number one. First Peter chapter number one. In verse number one, the Bible reads, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontius, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God, the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, grace unto you and peace be multiplied. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that faith is not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations, that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than that of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be founded to praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen ye love, and whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you. Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow, unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them, that have preached the gospel unto you, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, which things the angels desire to look into. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lust and your ignorance, but as he which hath called you is holy, so be holy in all manner of conversation, because it is written, be holy for I am holy. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons, judgeth according to every man's work, past the time of your sojourning here in fear, for as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your souls and obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with the pure heart fervently, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of grass, the grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away, but the word of the Lord endureth forever, and this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word, and we're thankful for all those who came to the conference. Lord, I pray that you be with us as we preach. Lord, be with Pastor Robinson. May you fill up with your power and your spirit, and give us ears to hear that which you would have for us this evening. We love you. We thank you. Pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, thanks for everybody that came out. It's definitely a privilege to be here to preach at the Fundamentalist Conference, and I love this subject, because it is definitely the most important when it comes to our faith, and just everything that we do as a Christian, and when it comes to starting off the conference, Pastor Burzins just defining what fundamental means, and into those aspects of what it even means to be fundamental, and then Pastor Jones, the rock, the foundation, and not the sinking sand, so definitely two great sermons to try to follow up on that, but I want to preach on the Word of God. The name of the sermon is The Living and Abiding Word. The Living and Abiding Word, and so when I think of the fundamental, ultimately, everything that we do, and every, you know, aspect of our lives as Christians is based off what the Bible says, and that's what defines us as being fundamental Baptists, right, is the fact that the Bible is our final authority, and not just the, you know, we use the term Bible, the King James Bible, okay? When it comes to being a fundamental Baptist, that means we're King James only. We don't accept the NIV, the ESV, the New King James. We don't accept any of these modern perversions that are out there. The King James Bible is the Word of God. It's inspired and preserved, okay? Now, I remember, and there's this whole controversy of inspiration when it comes to the King James Bible, and they're like, well, it's only preserved. It's not inspired, you know, and they use this straw man that, well, inspiration means, you know, that the translators had God moving upon them. Well, that's obviously not what we believe, obviously, so, but I'm going to get into those ideas of what does it mean that the Word is inspired, and what does it mean that it's preserved, okay? Now, in this chapter here, so Peter chapter 1 verse 22, I believe both those things are said in verse 23, actually, as far as the inspiration and the preservation of God's Word, okay? So in verse 22, it says, seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth, through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently. You want me to hold this up? Okay, so, and it says in verse 23, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. There you have both inspiration and preservation, and I'm going to prove to you that inspiration is meaning that it's alive, it's living, it's the living words of God, which God spake, and it also abideth forever, that means it's preserved, okay? Now, keep reading there, it says, for all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass, the grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away, but the word of the Lord endureth forever, and this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. So if you want to know what, you know, what's so important about the Word of God, and that it's inspired, and that it abideth forever, is because this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. This is how you're going to get saved. This is, you know, the foundation to salvation. This is the foundation to everything that we hold to be true, okay? And it comes down to this, is what is your final authority? What is your foundation when it comes to faith and religion? And we have a sure foundation, and I want to get into that. Go to chapter 2 there, so 1 Peter chapter 2 and verse 6, 1 Peter chapter 2 and verse 6, I'm going to confess to you that the Bible or the Word of God is the cornerstone to everything that we do as a Christian. That is the cornerstone. You say, well, I thought Jesus was the cornerstone. No, you're getting there, because Jesus is the Word. Now go to verse 6 there. It says, wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture, behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. The stone which, I'm sorry, unto you therefore which believe, he is precious. But unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of a corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the Word, being disobedient, where unto also they were appointed. So what does it say here that there's this chief cornerstone that's laid in Zion? It's elect, it's precious, and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. And it says, unto you therefore which believe, he is precious. Okay, so he's precious to you, right? That stone is precious, elect, that's the chief cornerstone to you that believe. But to those that are disobedient, it's a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. Those that stumble at what? The Word. So notice that that cornerstone is the Word that they're stumbling at, okay? You don't believe me, we'll keep going here. This is quoted, go to Ephesians chapter 2, Ephesians chapter 2. But it, you know, this is quoting from Isaiah 28 16. I just preached on this chapter last Wednesday, so this is fresh in my mind. But in verse 16 of chapter 28 of Isaiah, it says, therefore thus saith the Lord God, behold I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation, he that believeth shall not make haste. So when it talks about this cornerstone, we're talking about a foundation, okay? We're talking about a sure foundation, and they stumbled at that. See, to us it's precious, right? We're not stumbling at it, we love it. It's precious, it's elect, it's true, it's tried. But to the unbeliever, those that don't obey the gospel, those that reject the gospel, it's a stumbling stone. You know what? These people that are trying to shut us down, they just stumble at the Word, and they're going to be broken without hand. That's what's going to happen to them. You know what? They can reject it all they want, but you know what? It's precious to us. And it's funny to me that they're trying to shut down a conference where we're talking about the Bible, and we're talking about, you know, the fundamentals of salvation, you know, baptism, laying on of hands, eternal, well, I guess we can get hit on eternal judgment, shouldn't we? You know, that may be something that, well, I'll say that for Sunday. But obviously, you know, the idea is, it's funny that I'm just, I'm going to preach to you about the Bible, about why we believe the Bible is perfect and without error, and that it's a sure foundation, and it's just like, they can't stand it. It's like, well, truth is hate for those that hate the truth. And the idea is that they stumble at that stumbling stone. And it says in Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 19, Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 19, it says, now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God, and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. So you know what you have right here? You have the prophets in the Old Testament, you have the apostles in the New Testament, and guess who's the chief cornerstone of that foundation? The Lord Jesus Christ. Because Jesus in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and beheld his glory. The glory is the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. You know, in the beginning there was the Word of life, and he was with the Father, and he was manifested unto us. That is what we have before us today. You know what? Most Christians don't even trust in that. You know, we go out sowing again, and praise God, you know, 30, was it 30, I think, total salvations today, and hopefully we'll see a lot, we'll see more tomorrow, but you know what? A lot of those people are going to live and die, and they're going to go to heaven, but they they're not going to live a life where they're actually trusting that the Bible is completely true without error. And you know what? There's a huge blessing in that, and that's what I want to get on tonight, is the fact that if you just understand that this is perfect without error, and that this is living, and it abides forever, if you understand that, then what great things could you do for God? And you know what? It's no marvel that those that believe that end up doing the greatest things for God. And people that don't believe that it's perfect, those that are like, well, I can use the NIV, I can use the ESV, you know, there's no real perfect Bible out there. It's no marvel that they don't know anything about the Bible, and they don't do anything for God. And so going on, go to Genesis chapter two, because I want to get into the inspiration. Okay, inspiration. Now inspiration, you could probably think that you could see the word spirit in there, but you think of inspire, expire, right? You think of breathing, okay? Inhaling, exhaling, you know, it's not that complicated, but inspiration just means God breathed, and what is it, what happens when God breathes? Okay, now this is getting really on the bottom of the shelf here. This is so far on the bottom of the shelf that even a theologian can understand this one right here. Go to Genesis chapter two and verse seven, it says, and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a what? A living soul. You know what it means that the word of God is inspired? It means it's alive, because it's God-breathed. Now, you know, to give you another aspect of this, go to Job chapter 32 and verse 8, Job chapter 32 and verse 8. So obviously, I'm not really getting into the, uh, defending the King James Bible against, you know, the James Whites in the world, and, you know, all the straw man arguments, but people will use this argument of inspiration to be like, well, you're saying the translators were inspired by God, or they were moved by the Holy Ghost. That's not what we're saying. So what we're saying is that it's alive. What we're saying is that it's God-breathed. That means that this is God's word in English, and guess what? It can be in any language. Why is it bound by, you know, Greek or Hebrew or Aramaic? The day of Pentecost will prove that wrong real quick, and the fact that it was spoken in every language in all nations under heaven and earth. Now, in Job chapter 32 and verse 8 here, it says, but there is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. So if you, if you think about the spirit in man, you know, what does that represent a lot of times? Well, think about James chapter 2. The body without the spirit is what? Dead. So what does the spirit do? It gives you life, and you think of what's inspiration. So the idea is that, just liken it unto the body, the body without the spirit is dead, and guess what? The word without the inspiration of God is dead, but this is a living, this is the living word of God. This is the incorruptible seed which liveth and abideth forever. Now, go to 2 Timothy chapter 3. You probably figured I was going to go to this, right? So I, obviously, I wanted to kind of lay that foundation or that fundamental idea of what it means to be inspired, what it means to be alive, and just go to the beginning. Where did we get our life? By the breath of God. The breath of God was breathed into us. He breathed into us, and we were made a living soul, and the same thing happens with the word of God. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, and that's how the word of God was given, and it was given by the, you know, the Holy Ghost spake by the mouth of David. So it's inspired because of that reason. It's God breathed. Now, in 2 Timothy chapter 3 and verse 16, it says, all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction, and righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. So there's our text verse, you know, the idea that God's word is inspired, and you say, well, you know, the King James isn't inspired. It's the original Greek. Then you better go learn Greek, okay? If that is the case, if it's the case that it's Greek, Hebrew, you better start studying up on that because we're supposed to live by every word of God, and I'm not against learning Greek and Hebrew. Listen, I just got done reading Jacob, um, Jacob. I got, I just got done reading James in the original Greek language. You know what it says? The exact same thing it says in the English Bible we have, I have right in front of me. So there's nothing wrong with going back to the original languages, but you know what? You have, you have a bunch of pseudo intellectuals and false teachers that are trying to tell you it's different, and they're trying to, you know, what they're trying to do is take away your faith of the word of God, take away the faith that God has preserved his word and that we have it in this living book right here. Listen, if this book wasn't living, no one would have gotten saved today because there's no way that anybody's going to be getting saved, uh, without the word of God. And I'm getting ahead of myself. That's another point that I had there, but in Hebrew chapter four, go to Hebrew chapter four and verse 12 just to show you another verse on this. So I love first Peter chapter one and verse 23 because it just, you know what? It sums up so much in that one verse right there. Hey, you need the word of God to be saved. And by the way, that word of God lives and abides forever. So you have preservation, uh, you have inspiration, preservation, and salvation, or salvation by the word of God right there. And notice what it says in Hebrew chapter four verse 12. It says for the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Now, you know, James White, just to bring him up, that devil that he is, you know, in his book, you know, uh, the King James controversy, you know what he said about this verse right here? He's like, you know, people aren't gonna be able to understand this. You know, when, when I read the word quick, I'm thinking like it moves quick. Like the book is moving around or, you know, all this stuff. And it's just like, you gotta be kidding me. Like who read that and thought, man, I think it's the, the Bible's actually moving around and I gotta catch it, you know, or something like that. And you know what? This is something that most people know. There was even a movie called The Quick and the Dead, and it was a play on words because it's talking about, you gotta be quick at the draw or you're gonna be dead, but it's talking about being alive or dead. Okay. And most people understand what that means. Okay. But just because it's a word that you don't understand, doesn't mean it's not true or that it's an error or it's a bad translation. You know what? I like it. You had, you had, uh, you had the quicken who were dead and trespasses and sins. I think you can figure it out. Okay. You were dead and trespasses and sins. What happened? He made you really fast. So, you know, I didn't know there was an aspect of getting saved that I was gonna be really quick, but I haven't seen it yet. Maybe we need to stop eating at Freddy's because it's not helping that. So, uh, that's an inside joke there, but Pastor Mihia definitely knows what I'm talking about. So, but, uh, go to Psalm chapter 12, Psalm chapter 12. So we see that the word of God is a lie. It's inspired. And listen, it doesn't lose that inspiration if you go from one language to another. Okay. If that's true, then the apostles, how did they do it from Hebrew to Greek all the way through there? Okay. Because the New Testament is literally a commentary on the Old Testament. I mean, how many times it's just like, as it is written, as it's written, it's like it's bringing up verse and it's explaining that verse and it's giving you more light on that. And it's just constantly going from one language to another. You know, when Paul spake to his brethren, according to the flesh, right? When he spoke to the Jews, it says he spoke to him in Hebrew tongue. What was it written down in? Greek. So there's just case after case after case to show you that there's no loss in translation. There's no loss in inspiration or preservation for that matter. And so in Psalm 12 here, this is where we get a great verse on preservation. And notice what it says in verse six. So Psalm 12 verse six, it says, the words of the Lord are pure words. As silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord. Thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever. You know why I believe the King James Bible is perfect? Because it has to be somewhere. Okay. Here's a fundamental truth right here. God said he preserved his word. Where is it? You know, that's how I usually start off the conversation with someone that's not King James only. Just, I don't say, you know, well, the King James is right and, you know, it's without error. That's true, obviously. But you know what I say? Okay. God said that he would preserve his words from this generation forever. Where is it? Can you show it to me? Where's it at? And once they understand that truth right there, now it's like, okay, now we need to find it. And once you come to that conclusion, now you can go into the weeds and be like, all right, is it the NIV? Do we have an English translation that's preserved? Okay. Those are all valid questions. Do we have an English translation that's perfect? And you know what? Obviously, I believe the King James is, because it's been tried and true for over 400 years now that we have it in the English language. That is the language that all the missionaries are going out, that the world is getting evangelized by and large by English-speaking people in the King James Bible. Okay. Now go to Matthew chapter five, Matthew chapter five and verse 17. I want to show you some verses that Jesus says here, some things that Jesus says to show you that his word is not going anywhere. Okay. It's not going to fade out. And this is why the logic of these new versions is completely flawed. Okay. You know what the logic of the new versions is, is the fact that, hey, you know what? His word, it was hiding under a rock somewhere. Okay. And that we had to go find it. And it wasn't until the late 19th century or the early 20th century that we even had, you know, the actual, and they don't even believe it's perfect, but they're basically saying, hey, now we really know a lot more than they knew back then. So you have to believe that at some point, God, you know, put his word under a rock, like the Dead Sea Scrolls or, you know, the Vaticanus or Sinai Atticus that, you know, it wasn't until we found those that we could really know that this is the word of God right here. Okay. Do you really believe that? Or do you believe that God said, what God said that he preserved his word from this generation forever? So Matthew 5 verse 17 here, Matthew 5 verse 17, it says, think not that I'm come to destroy the law or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled. Not one jot or tittle. And you know what? The New Age Bibles that are out there, they want you to think that, yeah, there was a jot and tittle messed up. It has to be. Why would it need changed? Why do we need a different version if there's not some jot or tittle that needs to be corrected? Okay. Go to Matthew 24 and verse 35. Matthew 24 and verse 35. Matthew 24 and verse 35, it says this, it says, heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. It just over and over again, Jesus says, not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away. Now let me ask you a question. Has heaven and earth passed away? I know it's 2020 and I know it's crazy right now and anything can happen. Okay. But as heaven and earth passed away yet, then his word hasn't passed away. You know, the idea of fundamentalism is that we hold these truths that don't move. Okay. These truths that, hey, his word is alive. Hey, his word is preserved and it's still here. It's still abiding today. Okay. And so, but you know what? That leads into a lot of issues with people. When they don't hold this, okay, then that's going to affect salvation. That's going to affect all kinds of doctrines. Okay. People that don't hold the King James Bible to be their final authority, they get into all kinds of false doctrines when it comes to Zionism, when it comes to dispensationalism and just all this stuff. It snowballs in the fact that they don't actually trust this word. Abraham's bosom, right? You know what they don't trust? That it says that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh to seek corruption. They say, well, in the Greek, it says this. Yeah, in the Greek, it says hell. I mean, but that's the truth, isn't it? You have to say, I don't believe that King James Bible that says that his soul was not left in hell. Okay. And that's what it comes down to. They don't have a foundation. They have sinking sand. They have this movable foundation. And listen, that is going to be disastrous if you have that. Go to Romans chapter 10, Romans chapter 10. See, listen, our salvation is founded on the word of God. The Bible says in Hebrews 11, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it, the elders obtained a good report. Now, what is a good report? And it says, you know, for they have not all obeyed the gospel for Isaiah said, Lord, who hath believed are what report. And the Old Testament, when it's talking about the gospel, it's talking about good tidings, you know, glad tidings. And let's look at this right here. This is foundational truth here. And this is found in 1 Peter chapter 1. The idea that salvation is by the word of God. And notice what it says in verse 13. Just, you know, the soul winner's passage here. You should know this passage very well. Okay. But in Romans 10 verse 13, it says, for who shall call upon the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they may not believe? How shall they believe in him in whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? Now, do you notice something that you're getting from the vocal point, which is salvation, right? The vocal point, you know, the end game, the peak, if you will, of what you're trying to accomplish is to get someone saved, to call upon the Lord for salvation. What is this verse doing? It's moving down to find out what started this. Okay. Now keep reading there. So how should they hear without a preacher? And how should they preach, except to be sent? As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things. But they have not all obeyed the gospel for Isaiah said, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. What is the foundation to all of this? It's the word of God. And it's crazy to me that Baptist today will say, you don't need the word of God to get saved. Craziness. Jesus is the word. You're going to tell me you don't need Jesus to get saved. Oh, he's the Logos. It's different. In the beginning was the word and word was with God and the word was God. For there are three to bear record and having the father, the word and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one. And the idea that you can get someone saved without giving them a verse in the Bible is like saying they don't need Jesus to be saved. It's crazy. And all the verses that go against that logic right there, that they're born again, not a corruptible seed, but of incorrupt by the word of God, which liveth in the Bible forever, except the man to be born again. He cannot see the kingdom of God. How are you going to get born again if you don't have the incorruptible seed? And just verse after verse after verse after verse, salvation is predicated on the fact that God's word is there and that you hear it and believe it. This is foundational. And listen, we need to not let this slip. And you know what? There's a lot of people that or even a new I.B. OK, that will listen to sermons, get great doctrine. And but they're not they're not reading it themselves, they're not actually studying it themselves, and they're not grounded in it when it comes to why they believe it to be the case. And that is the foundation. And if I get anything across to you is that you need to really just hold this to be your foundation, whatever you believe, not just because I said it. Listen, look up these verses, you know, test this out, see if I'm wrong, that you need the Bible to get saved or that the word of God is living or that the word of God is abiding forever and preserved forever. You know, test it. Study the show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Test what I'm saying. Try what I'm saying and see if it's true, because if you're just trusting me, then you're trusting in flesh. OK. Now, obviously, I believe when I'm preaching is true and this is the word of God and you can hold on to this and say, yes, that's right. But if you don't look for it yourself, then you're going to be like the seed that falls on stony ground. You're not going to be rooted. Now, go to Ephesians chapter one, Ephesians chapter one, Ephesians chapter one and verse thirteen. Ephesians one, verse thirteen. Notice this as well. It says in verse thirteen, in whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth. Notice that the trusting is after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also after that you believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. See that progression? You know, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, then you believed, you trusted, and then you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. It's just one thing after another. But what was first? You heard the word of God. And how should they hear without a preacher? How should they preach except to be sent? And so that progression has to be there. OK. And there's so many truths to be in that. The idea that an unsaved person can get someone saved. The righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, my friends. You know, the Ethiopian eudic said, how can I accept some man should guide me? You know, he's reading Isaiah fifty three. It's not like he's reading like Zechariah chapter three or Zechariah chapter five, talking about the woman in the town of Led, you know, and all that stuff and stork wings or something. You know, like we're not talking cryptic here. We're talking Isaiah fifty three, which is the most clear passage when it comes to what Jesus did for our sins. OK, but he's like, I can't I can't understand it. And so we need to know that, hey, there is foundational truths that have to go on there. And I could hit on every single one of those points. But go to go to Second Timothy chapter three, Second Timothy chapter three. And this is kind of going back to the inspiration, but notice in verse fifteen. So I read sixteen and seventeen. But look at verse fifteen there. And this is so important to understand is that, listen, Timothy had the scriptures that are inspired when he was a child. OK, notice what it says in verse fifteen and that from a child thou has known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. See all that packed in there? Listen, you had the holy scriptures that were able to make you wise unto salvation. You can't take that out. You can't just divorce the Bible from salvation. Divorce the word of God from salvation. It's ridiculous. It's nonsensical. And the idea here is that, you know what, the parable of the sower and the seed. The Bible says in Luke eight, eleven, it says now the parable is this. The seed is the word of God. So you don't have to guess about this. A lot of parables are like, what is that talking about right there? Well, in that particular parable, Jesus is like, let me let me break this down for you. The seed is the word of God. And the Bible says they that sow in tears shall reap in joy. It says he that goes forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. Notice that what if you weren't bearing precious seed, though? What if you didn't have that incorruptible seed? Are you going to come doubtless with rejoicing, bringing your sheaves with you? No. This is foundational truth, and it is slipping today. It's slipping, even even amongst people that listen to new IFP preachers. And, you know, even you would say, well, well, where are the elites? Where are the elites in the IFP? Listen, at least, you know, I'll say this. My send out pastor, who's an old IFP preacher, realized that the word of God was needed for salvation. And say what you will about old IFP preachers, but you know what? Some of them still hold those truths to be self-evident. That the fact that the word of God is needed for salvation, and let's not let that slip. Because if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? And we need to hold these truths and these foundational truths. Now go to 1 Peter chapter 4. 1 Peter chapter 4. 1 Peter chapter 4 and verse 4. I know I'm preaching to the choir, you know, all those that are here. Most all of you would, I don't think, would disagree with what I'm saying here. But you know what? We need to be reminded. We need to be exhorted. Listen, a lot of these sermons, you're like, yes, that's true. But you know what? The children need to know this. Those that are younger need to know this. And listen, the older need to just be reminded about this, that hey, this is true. Let's not let this slip. Okay, when I get older, I don't want to ever, if you ever hear me say you don't need the word of God to be saved anymore, you need to take this sermon and shove it down my throat. And say what happened to that man? What happened to that man that used to actually believe what the Bible says? And there's plenty of preachers that I used to look up to, that used to preach hard against sin, that used to preach about these type of subjects, would preach about eternal security, would preach about the Bible being inspired and preserved, are now slipping on that. And you know what? Sometimes it may just take another generation to, you know, pick up where they left off, to pick up that mantle that's been marred and say, you know what? We're getting back to the fundamentals. We're getting back to the old past and we're going to stand on the word of God and we're going to stand on that truth that it's fundamentally inspired, preserved, and that you need it for salvation and there's nothing else beside that. Now, 1 Peter chapter 4 and verse 10 here, it says, as every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. You know, that's what you did this afternoon, morning, afternoon, whatever, lunchtime, whenever you're out, is that you've received that gift, right? And as good stewards of the manifold grace of God, you gave it unto others and that is what we are to do. But notice what it says in verse 11. It says, if any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. If any man minister, let him do it as the of the ability which God giveth, that God may and all that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praised in the menu forever and ever. Amen. Now, I love this verse, okay? And this makes me think of memorization, memorizing the Bible. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. You know what? When I write my sermons, we were just talking about sermons and, you know, how some people don't put anything on their notes. Some people put their sermons on a barf bag, you know, when they're flying out to a conference or whatever or some pastors, they don't write their sermons until like 30 minutes before the sermon is supposed to be preached. I was just saying, I have bad dreams about like going to a conference or getting up on Sunday morning and be like, I didn't write my sermon, you know, what am I going to do? So, but if you want to know my notes and actually people in my church and members of my church would be like, can I get your notes, you know, on that sermon just so that I can have, you know, the outline or whatever? And I'm like, okay, well, but it's just Bible verses. So, so that's how I do it. But here's the thing, you know why I want to do it that way? Because God's word is way more important than what I have to say. And you know what? I want to make sure that if any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. You know what my job is as a preacher? To expound on the word of God. But you know what? Most preachers, they expound on their own experiences. They expound on poems. They expound on, you know, like just things of the world. I remember going to a church where they preached on the Titanic. And there was no Bible verse. It was just like, you know, this correlation about how the boat didn't go back. They didn't go back to get anybody. And, you know, it sounds cool. And it's like, you know, it's you, you listen to, you're like, yeah, man, that's sad. And then there was one on Abraham Lincoln or something like that. And I'm just like, what are you doing? But you know what? People come to church. They want to be fed. You know what I find out when I, when I talk to my church members, I'll, I'll preach a sermon. It'll be like deep doctrine. I'm like, we're going down deep. You better get a snorkel because we're going to be down here for a while. And I'm like, I don't know if they're going to stay awake for this. I don't know if they're going to, you know, be able to handle all this and I'll praise you and be like, I love that sermon. Because you know what I found out is that I always underestimate what the congregation wants. Cause I'm like, I love it. You know, I love this type of stuff. I love getting deep. I love getting into all these deep truths of God. And I'm like, but you know, I don't know if they're going to like that. They're going to, you know, they're going to look at me like a deer in headlights or swamp donkey in headlights. But that's what we call them in West Virginia, by the way. So thunder chickens and swamp donkeys. But you know what I, when I, when I look at my congregation, you know what I see? I see people that are interested. I see people that say, you know what? I don't, they don't want to just, you know, just get the top level stuff. They want to get deep. Okay. But that doesn't come until you actually get the milk of the word. Okay. And so notice, go to Hebrew chapter five, Hebrew chapter five. And I know we're kind of, this whole conference is really kind of based off the end of Hebrews five, going into Hebrews six about the first principles of the doctrines of Christ. And it really comes down to this is that there's a lot of pastors and I'm talking save people. I believe the people in Hebrews five at the end of Hebrews five are saved people. Okay. And the idea is, is that there's a lot of preachers that just need milk and that should never be the case. Listen, one of the qualifications of a pastor is that you're not a novice. And that's not talking about like, well, you need to be 30 years old. And if you're not 30, then you can't pastor. Stab. It's talking about being an elder in the faith. Okay. Being not a novice in the word of God, not a novice in the, in the work of Christ. Listen, how long have you, how many times have you read the Bible? How many times, how many, how many chapters do you have memorized? How many, how many years have you been going soul winning day in, day out, getting people saved on a regular basis, then talk to me about not being a novice. Okay. And listen, someone could be 50 years old and hasn't accomplished that. Someone could be 60, 70 years old and not accomplish that, but someone could be 25. Someone could be 23. Someone could be 30 or 35. So, and not be a novice in the things of God, but those that don't understand these first principles, they're novices. They have, they need milk. Okay. And there's nothing wrong with milk. Listen, my one year old being weaned and is eating stuff, but I don't just like, just slap a quarter house steak in front of her and say, go to town. Okay. Cause that's mine. But you know what I'm saying though, you, you, you work up to that. You're like, okay, you can have some little puffs, you know, and then you can have some, you know, maybe you can have a chip. They start choking on that and be like, all right, not that chip. You can have this over here. And so you have to work up to the strong meat. Now that's what it says in Hebrew chapter five verse 12. It says, for when, for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again, which be the, what? The first principles of the oracles of God and are become such as have need of milk and not a strong meat. For everyone that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness for he is a babe, but strong meat belonging to them of full age. Even, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercise to discern both good and evil. Now there's a lot to be said here, but the ideas is that, you know what? They need the milk of the word. They need the first principles of the oracles of God. And what's the oracles of God, the word of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. And it says here that by reason of use, listen, is it any Marvel that those that go out soul winning end up knowing more about the Bible than anybody that I know? I think there's some truth to that because the Bible says that the fruit of the righteous is the tree of life and he that win his souls is wise. Listen, if you don't use the word of God, I think God's not going to give you any more. You know why a lot of Baptist churches are babes in Christ, the pastors are babes in Christ, they don't go soul winning. So it's not a marvelous thing in my mind that the, the, the churches that I know that just have great doctrine that are preaching just sermons. I'm like, man, I haven't seen that before. Just such a great dream. It's not new doctrine. We're not teaching anything new, but you're just like, man, I haven't seen that. That whole chapter. I think Pastor Mejia was preaching on Acts chapter 12 and he was showing about the end times prophecy application. I'm like, I preached through that. I preached through the whole book of Acts and I'm like, I didn't see that at all. And then I, then he was talking to me about, I'm like, wow, it's just like everywhere. It's just everywhere on the page. And I'm like, man, that is so awesome. But you know why, you know why there's sermons like that being preached? Because there's work that's being done because souls are being saved and God is blessing that man of God because of that. And you know what, like Pastor Burzins, there's one story. He was preaching a sermon and it was on Proverbs and it just had to do with suretyship. And it was just one of those things where I'm like, I just missed it. It just went over my head this whole time. And he was just preaching on it. It's a simple foundational truth, but it was just like, he was just showing me this and just showing these truths. But it's just over and over again, the people that I listen to that are soul winners, that are workers for the Lord, they just keep teaching me truths out of the Bible. And I don't believe that's an accident. Then you go to churches that don't go soul winning, and you're like, I should have just stayed home. I would have been better off listening to the Bible on audio wise, slept and got it by osmosis. And I'm halfway joking, but you might actually get something out of that. But truthfully, that's the case. It is in a lot of these churches and it's sad, but we need not to be that way. Now, I want to show you some passages because when it comes to this passage here in Hebrew chapter five, I think of what Jesus said over and over again. And this phrase that keeps ringing in my ears when I hear it is, have you not read? Go to Matthew chapter 12, Matthew chapter 12. And this is what Jesus kept saying to these rulers, these rulers that ought to be teachers. You know, they ought to be, they ought to be people that are saved, first of all. And he said to Nicodemus, art thou master of Israel and knoweth not these things, that a man must be born again? I thought that was only New Testament. By the way, that was Old Testament when he said it. Because the New Testament didn't start until Jesus died. But he said to Nicodemus, you should have known this. You're a master in Israel and you don't even know salvation? And Jesus keeps saying this to him. He's like, have ye not read? And it's a rhetorical question, meaning they haven't read it. It says in verse three, it says, but he said unto them, have you not read what David did when he was in hungered and they that were with him? How he answered into the house of God and did he eat the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them, which were with him, but only for the, for the priests. Or have you not read in the law how that on the Sabbath days, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless? But I say unto you that in this place is one greater than the temple. So just have you not read? And what they were accusing him of is basically breaking the Sabbath day because he was healing a man on the Sabbath day. He's like, have you not read what David did? Have you not read what the priest did every Sabbath day when they circumcised the children on the eighth day on Sabbath day and were blameless? Notice in Matthew chapter 19, verse four, Matthew chapter 19, verse four, it says, and he answered and said unto them, have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female? And you know what? This one just applies to the world today. Have you not read in a biology book that it's male and female? Two genders, not 75 or whatever it is. But you know, talking about marriage, that's between a man and a woman, and these twain shall be one flesh. The idea is that you're supposed to just have one man, one woman, not multiple wives, and definitely not man and man and woman and woman. But the idea here is that they haven't read it. In Matthew chapter 22, verse 29, it says, Jesus answered and said unto them, ye do err not knowing the scriptures. So Matthew 22, verse 29, you do err not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God, for in the resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven, but as touching the resurrection of the dead. Have you not read that which was spoken unto you by God saying, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Do you see what he's doing here? He's saying, hey, let me bring up some passages that you apparently didn't read. And today, when you're dealing with Christians that are babes in Christ, isn't it constantly just like, you're just like face palm after face palm. When people say things, you're just like, ah. You know, the one that usually get out someone is like, wow, you know, I love the New Testament because there's just, there's no condemnation. It's just, you know, the Old Testament is so condemning. Like, I just read Revelation. Like, and not to mention, have you read the Gospels? Have you read like, I mean, Matthew 23? Have you read these passages? It's just condemnation after condemnation after condemnation. And it's just like, have you not read? And over and over again, when it comes to anything that's in the Bible, they're just like, they'll say something, they'll say, well, all sin is equal. Or they'll say, you know, basically that, you know, the fact that everyone, you know, sins, and there's no, there's nothing greater than that, and they'll bring up homos, they'll bring up anything else. And the idea is, is that the Bible definitely teaches differently on that, you know, as far as the fact that there's greater sin. He said to Pilate that those that delivered him unto them, him unto him, hath the greater sin. And he's like, have you not read? And over and over again, we see those truths. And you could look at other places too. It says in Mark chapter 12, you don't have to turn there in verse 10, it says, have you not read this scripture? The stone which the builders rejected is made the head of the corner. And so just over and over again, he's saying, have ye not read? And this should not be said about us. This is fundamental here. This is easy to understand, hard to do, okay? You need to read your Bible every day, okay? Go to Matthew chapter 4, Matthew chapter 4. I'm going to read to you Job 23. Job 23 in verse 12 says, neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. This is where you need to be when it comes to the Word of God, that you are willing to basically not eat in order to read the Bible. And if you had that attitude, then you're going to get fed, and you're going to have this, and you're not going to have that being said against you, have you not read? Now, Matthew chapter 4 and verse 4, very famous verse here where the devil's trying to tempt Jesus, verse 4 it says, but he answered and said, it is written, man shall not live in his written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceed, perceived out of the mouth of God. So the idea is that we're supposed to be living by every word, but if you're not reading it, how are you going to live by it? We need to keep reading it. We need to esteem it more than our necessary food. You know, you think of Psalm 1, it says, blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the young godly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scorn, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, in his law that they meditate day and night. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever woke up thinking about the word of God and saying, hey, I need to write that down? Have you ever like not been able to sleep because you were just thinking about the word of God? And I'm not up here to be like, oh, you know, look how spiritual I am. Listen, if you haven't done that, then you're not reading enough, okay? Because, and I'm not saying you just have to read every night, and that has to happen every night, but what I'm saying is that, are you are you thinking about the word of God? Are you meditating upon it? And you know what, I've laid in bed once, and this is a lesson that I learned, if you ever think of something, write it down, okay? Because many times I'm in bed, you know, and it's like real late or something like that, and I'm like, man, that'd be a good sermon right there. And I'm thinking like passages and how you can correlate those or whatever, and I'm like, ah, I'll write it down in the morning. You wake up and like, what was I thinking about? And then you just rack your brain, and you're just like, it's gone. And so like, yeah, no, you got to write that stuff down, but what I'm saying with that is that you need to be meditating upon it to the point where you're dreaming about it, okay? Have you ever dreamed about winning people to Christ? I bet, I bet there's a bunch of people that have had those dreams, right? And you know those dreams, right? You can't find a Bible, and when you find a Bible, it's an NIV for some reason, or you open it up, it's like a match, match sticks or something like that, and you're like, what in the world, you know? Or it's an encyclopedia, it's not, it's not the word of God, and by that point, an hour has gone by, and the person that you're trying to witness to is gone. And so, but you know what that means is that you're spiritually minded. You're thinking about the things of God. You're thinking about the work of Christ. You're thinking about the Bible, and I'll take those dreams any day over like a monster trying to eat me or getting chased by a bear or you know anything like that, but you know those ones where you can't get a gun. You get a gun. The ammo doesn't work. Anyway, this isn't a sermon on dreams, but go to, go to Proverbs chapter 30, Proverbs chapter 30, and this is the truth I want to get across here. So obviously, the Bible is perfect without error. It's inspired and preserved, okay? You get that truth right there, and you know what? What are you doing? If you're not reading this, what are you doing? You're like, well, I know it, then you don't know anything at all. Anybody that says, hey, I know the word of God, and I know it all, you know nothing at all. The more I read the Bible, the more I realize I don't know. I'm going through the book of Isaiah right now, and I'm hitting, like I'm seeing stuff all over the place, and you know what I'm finding out is that there's so much in there that I haven't seen before, and I'm not even touching the service. I'll get done with a sermon. I'll preach for like an hour and 20 minutes, and my congregation is ready to fall over, and I'll get done with the sermon. I'm like, man, I feel like I haven't even scratched the surface of that chapter, and it's just true that the Bible is infinite. Now, go to Proverbs 30 and verse 5. It says, every word of God is pure. He is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him. Add thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Now, the Bible talks about the word of God and how we need to trust in the Lord, but you know what? We need to trust that this is perfect. You know why a lot of people don't read the Bible is because they don't believe it's perfect. They think there's errors in it. You know why a lot of people have problems with, you know, passages. They'll say, wow, that must be a typo, or that must be like an error in translation or something like that. You know what you need to look at and say, you know what? That's the word of God. I need to figure out how this fits, and that's what people do. That's where a lot of false doctrines come from is that they don't understand a passage, and therefore, they have to change it and twist it to try to get it to fit their own idea. Instead of just saying, you know what? That's perfect. The rest of the Bible is perfect. How does this all fit? But people that believe it's perfect do that. People that don't believe it's perfect just find some excuse or go back to the Greek and find some other definition. That's not actually the right definition. And Psalm 119, Psalm 119 verse 42, Psalm 119 verse 42. And ultimately, when it comes to your Bible reading, if you get this fundamental truth down, that it's alive, it's preserved, and that this is the true word of God without error, then that trust in the Bible, God will use that, okay? But if you don't have that faith in it, listen, you're not going to know the deep things of God because you're going to end up changing something. You're going to move something around over here, and you're not going to trust that, hey, that's right. And there's some hard sayings in the Bible. There's some hard passages to interpret, but instead of trying to change it, why don't you just, hey, get some skill in the word of righteousness and understand it and know the deep truths of God. Now, in Psalm 119 verse 42 says, so shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproaches me, for I trust in thy word. That's what we need. But listen, you can't trust in something that's broken or faulty or has errors. Listen, if there's one error in the Bible, then what part's right and what part's wrong? How do you know that the one part that you see is an error is, how do you know that that's not right and the rest of it's wrong? That's a presupposition you need to have before you go into reading your Bible, is the fact that, hey, it's all true. Every jot and tittle of your King James Bible is true, and you need to trust in it. That's fundamentalism right there. King James Bible, fundamental Baptist ideas here that it comes down to. You need to trust it now. And James chapter 1, go to James chapter 1. Actually, go to 1st Corinthians chapter 2. 1st Corinthians chapter 2. It's getting hot up here. These lights, that chandelier just... But in James chapter 1, I'm going to read this. You're going to 1st Corinthians chapter 2. James chapter 1 verse 5, it says, if any man or if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God to give it to all men liberally, and abraighteth not, and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed, for let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. You know what a lot of people do when they read the Bible? They don't actually have faith in it. I'm talking about Christians. They don't have faith in it. And listen, you need to ask God and say in faith, God, show me what this is saying. And guess what? God will give you liberally that understanding. There's been many times where I've just been like, God, show me what this is saying. And you're just stuck on a passage and you're just like, show me this. And a lot of times it doesn't come to you right then. Sometimes you have to like, all right, I'm just going to let that go. And then I'm going to start reading the rest of the Bible again. And you know what? I'll find it the most crazy spot in the Bible that you would never think. You say, well, we got Esau now. We can search engine this. Listen, there's a lot of times I find answers and you would never think to search that. You know what happened? The Holy Ghost was giving me an answer and giving me that wisdom that I was asking for. But listen, you ask not, you receive not because you ask not. And so we need to, we need to ask that. Now in first Corinthians chapter two and verse nine, this is the fundamentalist conference, right? The fundamental is that we have the word of God, but ultimately we want to get past the first principles of the doctrines of Christ, don't we? We want to move past that. We want to get onto things that are past the fact that the word of God is perfect and without error. And this is what we want to get to is the deep truths of God. Notice in verse nine there says, but as it is written, I have not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart a man, the things which God had prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them unto us by his spirit for the spirit search with all things. Yea, the deep things of God, for what man knoweth the things of God save the spirit of man, which is in him, even so the things of God know no man, but the spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit, which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God, which things are also, we speak not in words with man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual and going on from that, it says, but we had the mind of Christ. The idea here is that we had the mind of Christ. You know what that is? Right here, the word of God. And we have the Holy Ghost inside it. See the anointing, which you have received of him abideth in you, and you need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teaches you of all things in his truth and is no lie, and even as it had taught you, you shall abide in him. And the idea here is that you had the Holy Ghost inside of you, but listen, the Holy Ghost does not speak of himself. He will only speak what God, what Jesus says. Okay. There's a hierarchy in the Trinity, the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost. Jesus said that he didn't speak his own words. He spoke the words of the Father. And the Holy Ghost is saying, I don't speak my own words. I speak the words of Jesus. And if you don't have the words of God in your heart and you're not reading it and you're not memorizing, listening, the Holy Ghost can't draw that out. The Holy Ghost can't show you those deep truths of God if you're not reading it. And I know this is simple, but this is the fundamentalist conference, right? The fundamental here is that you have to read it for the Holy Ghost to show it to you. Okay. And I don't know about you, but I want to know the deep things of God. But I will never sacrifice trying to know the deep things of God by destroying the foundation. And people that don't have a good foundation, that means that they're wrong on the deep things of God. And we need to hold this, this truth, this fundamental truth that the Word of God lives and abides forever. And if you will, if you will just hold on to that, you say, well, I don't know all the, you know, I haven't studied it out. Just believe it. Just believe it and hold on to it. You know, you know, follow me as I follow Christ. That's what Paul said. And as you go, try it. Prove it. Prove all things. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. And find out whether that's true. But I'll tell you today that it is true. And it's been proven over and over and over again. And I wish I could show you all the times that I've seen, hey, this is perfect. I can't believe how all this fits together. I can't believe how complex the Bible is, but yet everything fits together. And I wish I could show you that, but you can only know that for yourself if you do it yourself. And so if you get anything out of the sermon is that, hey, we should all want to know the deep things of God. But before, before that, you know, before honor is humility. And before you get to the deep things of God, you have to get to the foundation. So that's the word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you today and thank you for your word and just pray to help us to, to learn from it, to know it. I pray that you'd be with Pastor Mejia also as he preaches. And Lord just pray that you'd edify us and Lord we love you. Pray also in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. All right. Thank you, Pastor Robinson. Great sermon on the word of God. Amen. We're going to sing another song right now. Pastor Rock of Ages. And that is number eight, page number eight in your song books. Rock of Ages. Pastor Burson's coming up. Amen. Rock of Ages. What a great song to go along with the fundamentalist conference here. Rock of Ages. We'll sing it out on that first verse. Rock of ages cleft for me. Let me hide myself in thee. Let the water and the blood from thy wounded side which flowed be of sin a double cure. Save from wrath and make me pure. Could my tears forever flow? Could my zeal no languor know? These for sin could not atone. Thou must save in thou alone. In my hand no price I bring. Simply to thy cross I cling while I draw this fleeting breath. When my eyes shall close in death. When I soar to worlds unknown and behold the on thy throne. Rock of ages cleft for me. Let me hide myself in thee. Amen. All right. Great singing this evening. We're gonna have Pastor Robinson come up and he's gonna read the passage for us. So I guess I preached on the word about it. Now I gotta read it, right? So turn to Isaiah chapter three. Isaiah chapter three. Read the whole passage here. Isaiah chapter three. I'll start there in verse one. It says, For behold the Lord, the Lord of hosts, that take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet and the prudent and the ancient, the captain of fifty and the honorable man and the counselor and the cunning artificer and the eloquent orator. And I will give children to be their princes and babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another and every one by his neighbor. The child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient and the base against the honorable. When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying thou has clothing, be thou our ruler and let this ruin be under thy hand. In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be in healer, for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. Make me not a ruler of the people. For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah is fallen because their tongue in their doings are against the Lord to provoke the eyes of his glory. The show of their countenance that the witness against them and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Say ye to the righteous that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked, it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hand shall be given him. As for my people, children are their oppressors and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err and destroy the way of thy paths. The Lord standeth up to plead and stand to judge the people. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people and the princes thereof, for ye have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses. What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor, said the Lord God of hosts. More of the Lord said, because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go and making a tinkling with their feet. Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion and the Lord will discover their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet and their calls and their round tires like the moon, the chains and the bracelets and the mufflers, the bonnets and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands and the tablets and the earrings, the rings and the nose jewels, the changeable suits of apparel, and the mantels and the wimples and the crisping pins, the glasses and the fine linen, and the hoods and the veils, and it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink, and instead of a girdle a rent, and instead of well-set hair baldness, and instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth, and burning instead of beauty, thy men shall fall by the sword of thy mighty men in war, in the war, and her gates shall lament and mourn, and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. Oh yeah let's pray. Dear only father we thank you for today and thank you for your word and just pray to be with Pastor Mejia as he preaches for us and just pray for edification and just exhortation and even rebuke. Lord just pray that you would be with him and fill him with your spirit in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. All right I'll take this.