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I do believe that there's a time to use words that are not in the Bible. I don't limit myself to only Bible words. I use words that are not in the Bible. Let me give you what I've always taught on language. Here are the two types of language that I want to use. Number one, I want to use the Bible's language, biblical terminology. But number two, I also want to use words that are easy to be understood. These are the two types of words that are in my vocabulary as a preacher. Now you say, well, you should only just say exactly what the Bible says. Well then, what do you even need preaching for? Why don't we just get up and just read the Bible for an hour and go home? The whole purpose of preaching is to do what? It's to explain the Bible. You don't just get up and say exactly what the Bible says. That's it, folks. That's all, folks. You know, God said it better than I could. Is that preaching? The whole point of preaching is to expound the Bible, okay? And to apply it to the day that we're living in, right? The Bible has been around for thousands of years, but it's just as relevant, but we need to apply it to the day we're living in. So a preacher who just gets up and says exactly what the Bible says is failing as a preacher because I got Alexander Skirby to do that, to just tell me exactly what the Bible said. The point is that he tells us what the Bible says and then he explains it and expounds it and puts it in 2018 America in that context. That's what preaching is, right? They gave the sense thereof, the Bible said in Nehemiah when they preached the Bible. They explained it. They expounded it. They gave the sense. They gave the meaning. They gave the explanation. Now, 1 Corinthians 14 says this, So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? For you shall speak into the air. So the two kinds of words that I like to use are Bible words and words that are easy to understand to help explain the Bible. So complicated words that people don't understand what, you know, why would I use them? You know, just to sound smart, right? To edify myself, to lift myself up. You know, I think that the word rapture is a great word. Now it's not a Bible word, but it's easy to be understood. And it explains a clear principle in the Bible. The word rapture comes from Latin because of the fact that the Bible was translated into Latin. And there are many, many copies of the Bible in Latin. So a lot of people knew Bible verses from Latin. So the term of being caught up together, that term is where we get our word rapture, caught up. You could call it the catching up, but that just doesn't roll off the tongue, does it? So rapture is just a Latin way of saying the catching up. You know, you don't want to call it the catch up. You know, it doesn't sound right. People aren't going to know what you're talking about. There's nothing wrong with using words that aren't in the Bible as long as they're easily understood and help us explain the Bible, right? And as long as they match up with what the Bible is teaching. So a word like rapture matches the Bible because the Bible said we're going to be caught up together with him in the clouds and rapture's literal meaning is to be caught up. Even some people use it in a non-spiritual context of just being enraptured. It means they're just kind of caught up in emotion or caught up in the feelings. Who knows what I'm talking about, right? With that term of rapture. Okay. Another word that's not in the Bible that we like to use is Trinity. But again, it's just easy to understand. And it basically just means the three that are one, you know, and it's just tri, unity, three and one. So that's just a word where if we use it, people know what we're talking about. When we say the Trinity, it means there's three persons, one God. And so that's like a shorthand for that concept. Now people say, well, call it the Godhead or, you know, that's the Bible. That's not even what Godhead even means, first of all, number one, because Godhead simply means divinity or deity. It means Godhood. If you actually look it up in a dictionary and study the word, Godhead means Godhood. Now you could obviously refer to God, the Father, God, the Son, and God, the Holy Spirit as the Godhood, because obviously that's the only three persons that are God. So they, all of divinity is right there. That's a complete Godhead right there. But you know, to sit there and say, oh, get rid of the word Trinity because it's not in the Bible is a dumb argument. Let me give an example of why it's important sometimes that we do use words sometimes that are not just in the Bible. My dad brought a friend to church one time and the pastor got up and just ripped face on the sodomites for an hour. You know, this is like 20 years ago. And you know, sodomites this, sodomites that, he preached a whole sermon and then they get out in the car and my dad asked his buddy, you know, what'd you think about the sermon? And his buddy said, I just have one question. What's a sodomite? You know, so the whole, he missed the whole sermon. The entire sermon just went right over his head because he had no clue what a sodomite is. So that's why sometimes you have to use words that people understand, use words that they know the meaning of in 2018 America in order to explain, not to contradict the Bible, but to explain what the Bible says.