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Amen the part of the chapter that I'd like to focus on is beginning there in verse number seven in Matthew chapter three When the Bible reads, but when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism He said unto them Oh generation of vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance and think not to say within yourselves We have Abraham to our father for I say unto you that God is able of these stones To raise up children unto Abraham and now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees Therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire now This is significant because this is actually the first preaching that we really get to from a man of God in the New Testament John the Baptist comes on the scene and Starts preaching before Christ has even come on the scene and started preaching He's the forerunner of Jesus Christ and right away the subject that is just brought up right out of the gate You open the New Testament and you start reading the first book the book of Matthew and one of the first things That comes out of the mouth of a man of God is telling the Jews Don't think within yourselves to say we have Abraham to our father For I say unto God is able of these Stones to raise up children unto Abraham and now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees Therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast in the fire now What's interesting about that is that there's a movement out there today known as Hebrew roots And it's so funny how they actually use that word root To describe their movement the Hebrew roots when that's the exact root that Jesus and John the Baptist and all the preachers of the New Testament explained that the axe was laid to the root of that tree that tree was cut down and they're trying to dig up that old dried up dead root and build their faith on that root and Build their religion on that root the title of my sermon is this Greek the language of the New Testament and an alternate title for my sermon would be this laying the axe to the Hebrew root Laying the axe to the Hebrew roots, but we hear it all the time even amongst independent fundamental Baptists now saying hey We need to get back to our Hebrew roots. We need and you'll see independent fundamental Baptists even That are King James and soul winning saying that we need to celebrate the Passover and put on a funny hat and they get Out the star of rim fan and they go with all these Jewish traditions and Jewish fables We need to lay the axe to the root that Hebrew root movement It's false, but what I want to preach about this morning specifically is that the language of the New Testament is Greek It's not Hebrew the New Testament was written in Greek and I'm going to prove that to you from the Bible now Let's just start out by opening our Bibles to the table of contents Okay Now that's somewhere that most preachers don't have you turn but turn to the table of contents right at the beginning of your Bible there and Just look at the books of the New Testament and this might be handy for you to refer back to throughout the sermon And sometimes we just those of us who grew up in church might just take for granted that Everybody knows the books of the Bible or where they are because we grew up in Sunday school You know memorizing Matthew Mark Luke John acts the epistle to the Romans first and second Corinthians Galatians and Ephesians Philippians Colossians first second Thessalonians first and second Timothy Titus and Philemon who learned that song when you're good Yeah, like five people in this whole out of out of 305 people Hebrews James first and second Peter first and second and third John Jude and Revelation So, you know the five of us That grew up in Sunday school with that song, you know, okay We know where that but I remember when my wife first got saved one of the first things she had to do was memorize the books of the Bible and she took initiative and memorized them right away and I remember we'd go to church and the pastor would say turn to so and So the book and she'd go like this and she I could see like wheels turning And then she'd go there because she had to learn it. It wasn't something that just came to her naturally So as we look at the table of contents here we see the 27 books of the New Testament and that's what I want to focus on today is about the New Testament and let's start out By looking at the epistles of the New Testament. Okay. So first of all, we got the first four books Matthew Mark Luke and John Those are the four Gospels that tell us of the life of Christ then the book of Acts Picks up the story where the four Gospels leave off and talks about what Christ's apostles did After the death, burial and resurrection and then from Romans the the sixth book that you'll see there all the way to the book of Jude so almost to the very end our epistles or long letters that were written by the apostles Unto various Christians or churches and different people and those epistles contain the doctrines of the New Testament And they explain the life of Christ. They explain his death burial and resurrection. They explain salvation They explain end times prophecy They are just the teachings and the doctrines of the New Testament and then of course the book of Revelation Gives us the end of the world the end times that which is to come that which is future So as we look at the New Testament today I want to show you that this book is written in Greek and it's written for a reason in Greek because God could have delivered It in Hebrew just as he delivered the Old Testament Hebrew and there's a false teaching out there going around now with this Hebrew roots movement where they claim that it was originally written in Hebrew and That the Greek New Testament came later or that the Hebrew Old New Testament was hidden or suppressed or whatever Let's prove that to be false right now Look at the table of contents and let's start with the epistles and let's look at the epistles These are places right Romans. That's a place to the saints which be at Rome It tells us at the beginning of that book first and second Corinthians So these books are being written to people who live in a city called Corinth and you could go and visit that city even today you could go to these physical places and Where would they be located? Well, somebody tell me where Rome is located Italy right. Okay. Where is Corinth located? It's located in Greece. Okay now Galatians is Written to the church as plural of Galatia because Galatia is not just a city is a region Okay, and that region of Galatia is in modern-day Turkey the next book Ephesus Ephesians right if you look at your table of contents Ephesians is written to the people living in Ephesus. That's a city in Turkey Philippi is a city in Macedonia back then today, it would be northern Greece. Okay Colossae where the Colossians lived is another city in modern-day Turkey and Thessalonians is written to the people in Thessalonica or Thessaloniki and that's in modern-day Greece Now you say Turkey what's what's going on with that? Well at that time Turkey was a Greek speaking place later on with the Muslims and the the Ottoman Empire and so forth Turkey was taken over by Muslims and so forth, but at the time that the New Testament's being written Turkey was a Greek speaking place From the time of Alexander the Great and into the Roman Empire and so forth So what do all these places have in common? We just went through a bunch of places Rome Corinth Galatia Ephesus Philippi Colossae Thessalonica These places are all Greek speaking places. Okay Corinth is in Greece The rest are either in Turkey or Greece The only one that's not in either Turkey or Greece both Greek speaking place at that time is Rome But at that time in the Roman Empire Greek was a language that was spoken all over the place Certainly Rome Italy was not a place where Hebrew was spoken. That should go without saying So what we see is that out of all of these epistles They're all written to Greek speaking places So obviously they're written in Greek not only that But the next three books if you look down at your at your Bible there first and second Timothy Titus and then we can even include the fourth book of Philemon. These are known as the pastoral epistles So they're not written to a church or a group of Christians in a geographic area, but rather they're written to a pastor Timothy Titus or Philemon These men are Greek Timotheus. His father was Greek Titus was Greek Philemon was Greek now turn if you would in your Bible to Colossians chapter 4 I want you to go to Colossians chapter 4 and then I want you to go to Philemon as well So go to the book of Philemon, which is toward the end of the New Testament little tiny book Right after Titus and then I want you to also find the epistle of the Colossians chapter 4 Let's start first of all in chapter 4 of Colossians the Bible says in Colossians 4 9 with Onesimus a Faithful and beloved brother watch this who is one of you They shall make known unto you all things which are done. So according to Colossians 4 9 Onesimus is a guy from Colossi everybody get that look down at verse 17 and Say to Archippus, by the way These are all Greek names of Greek people say to Archippus take heed to the ministry Which thou has received in the Lord that thou Fulfill it. So when he writes a letter the Colossians He has a special message for a guy named Archippus and he talks about how a guy named Onesimus is from there now Look at Philemon Philemon chapter 1 Verse 1 there's only one chapter. It says in Philemon verse 1 Paul a prisoner of Jesus Christ and Timothy our brother unto Philemon our dearly beloved and fellow laborer and to our beloved Appiah and Archippus our fellow soldier and to the church in thy house look at verse 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus whom I've begotten in my bonds So notice he's talking to Archippus and he's talking about Onesimus as being a guy who's from there Which proves that Philemon is at Colossi Archippus and these that they're all at a city in Where Asia minor modern-day Turkey a Greek speaking place which goes to prove that all of these epistles that Paul wrote from Romans up through Thessalonians to these different cities and All four of the pastoral epistles are written to Greek people in Greek speaking places Now that's a lot of the New Testament that's 13 books if we go to our table of contents We just talked about 13 books from Romans to Philemon as being all written to Greek people in Greek places speaking Greek But we're supposed to believe that the New Testament was really written in Hebrew and we need to get back to Hebrew roots of Christianity Well, if half of the New Testament has just been demonstrated to be written toward Greeks That's not a Hebrew root That's a Greek root Now if you would go To 1st Peter chapter 1 so and we're not done. We've only looked at 13 We're going to show that more and more of the New Testament is written unto Greek people That's just starting with Paul's epistles because some people would say well That's because the Apostle Paul is the Apostle to the Gentiles. There's a there's a goofball teaching out there called dispensationalism And I don't believe in any of it none of it It's false doctrine. It should be completely just cast in the garbage can and we just need to get back Just reading the New Testament believing it for what it says and getting rid of this false man-made paradigm known as dispensationalism Well dispensationalism says well the part of the New Testament that applies to us Directly is the part that Paul wrote Because Paul's the epistle to the Gentiles because Paul called himself the epistle to the Gentiles But here's where they're getting that wrong is that all of the other apostles were also Apostles to the Gentiles because every apostle that Jesus sent out was an apostle to the Gentiles Because he told all of them to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature And he said to all of them to teach all nations Now some of them for a while were disobedient and just kept preaching to the Jews only that was their disobedience That wasn't God's plan God didn't have this weird Dispensational plan of he's gonna reveal a new salvation through Paul a new doctrine and Paul's gonna be I mean look Why would God send the eleven apostles and tell them the ones that met him on that mount in Matthew 22 or Matthew 28? Why would he send them and say okay? We've been preaching to Israel for the last three and a half years. Just keep doing that Just keep doing that even though they rejected it, and I'm gonna send one guy to reach the whole rest of the world does that make any sense? But that's what they want us to believe they want us to believe that Peter James John that they're all To the Jews and that Paul's the apostle of the Gentiles no They're all supposed to be an apostle of the Gentiles Because God told the Jews the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruit thereof And he laid the axe to the root of that tree he destroyed You know finally none of them could be in an apostle to Jerusalem anymore because he destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD So the point is that it's not just Paul Who was the apostle to the Gentiles or preached to the Greeks or the Gentiles because let's look at what Peter wrote now Right 1st Peter the Bible says in 1st Peter chapter 1 Peter an Apostle of Jesus Christ and let's see who he's writing to to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia All Greek speaking places. Do you notice some of them that are familiar Galatia? Where's Galatia modern-day Turkey Asia? There is referring to Asia minor modern-day Turkey Greek speaking place Who's he writing to look at verse 2 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 So he's writing to those who are saved by the blood of Christ in all these Greek speaking places. That's who Peter's writing to Now Some people would take this and I'm just gonna give all the arguments of the other side and why they're false Some people would say well, he's just writing to the Jews in those locations the diaspora the dispersed Jews and That's why he says the strangers scattered throughout. Okay, we'll go to chapter 2 and let's see if that's really true 1st Peter chapter 2 Let's see if he's writing to Jews or Gentiles Because these are Gentile places Galatia is a Gentile place Pontus Cappadocia Bithynia look at 1st Peter chapter 2 verse 9 but ye are a chosen generation a royal priesthood unholy nation a Peculiar people that you should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light Watch this which in time past were not a people Now were the Jews or Israel in time past a people yeah, they were a people Israel the Jews But he's saying that the group that he's writing to now in all these various geographies by thinny a Asia place He's saying you guys in time past were not a people But are now the people of God that's something new Look the Jews had already been the people of God in the past He says you that I'm writing to in time past were not a people But now are the people of God which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy, but look at verse 11 Dearly beloved I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims Abstain from fresh fleshly lust which war against the soul Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles that whereas they speak against you as evildoers They may by your good works, which they shall behold glorify God in the day of visitation So the Bible is clearly saying he's writing to people who are living among the Gentiles They're strangers and pilgrims. Why because this world's not our home That's what's meant by strangers and pilgrims because We are like Abraham and Isaac and Jacob Where we desire a heavenly country We desire a better country. We're not mindful of that country from whence we came out and The Bible says and you say well, but it says they're among the Gentiles. Yeah, but look at Ephesians to flip over to Ephesians 2 Ephesians chapter 2 and then we're gonna go to 2nd Peter Look what the Bible teaches in Ephesians chapter 2 and again Ephesians is being written To Greek people Greek speaking place Book of Ephesians Chapter number 2 Gentiles Look what he says in verse number 11 Wherefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh. Are they still Gentiles? He said in time past your Gentiles in the flesh So he's saying now that they're saved They're not really considered a Gentile anymore because in Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile in that sense So the point is that when he says you're living among the Gentiles He's saying you're beyond just being a Gentile or he because the word Gentile has the implication of like the heathen The nation's the the Gentiles he says wherefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands that at that time you were without Christ being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and Strangers from the covenants of promise having no hope and without God in the world But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ So he's saying you were aliens of Israel you were Strangers or foreigners to the Commonwealth of Israel, but jump down to verse 19 now therefore you're no more strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the Saints and of the Household of God so when you get saved you receive a spiritual green card You know you receive a spiritual citizenship status you receive a spiritual immigration document into the spiritual nation of Israel So whereas you were just a heathen Gentile Greek Italian whatever when you believe on Jesus Christ You're no more a stranger. You're not an alien anymore You're actually a fellow citizen in God's Kingdom You're a fellow citizen of the Commonwealth of Israel you're graphed in you are part of that Holy nation that peculiar people so when Peter talks about them being strangers He's saying they're a foreigner to this world. They don't fit into this world. They're a peculiar people Whereas in the past they were a foreigner unto the people of God. They were a stranger to the people of God Now they're a citizen of God's Kingdom and a stranger and a pilgrim in this world Go if you would to 2 Peter. So it's clear that the book of 1 Peter is writing to the Gentiles Living in Gentile places and telling them in time past you were not a people but now you are the people of God Why because you believed on Christ? Because you've got Jesus in your heart because you are been sprinkled by the blood of Jesus Christ You are now a people of God that's not written to the Hebrews. That's written to the Gentiles Now the book of 2 Peter. Let's see who 2 Peter is written to it says in verse 1 Simon Peter a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ to them that have obtained like precious faith with us Through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord Let me ask you this. Is there anything in that that limits it to a certain nationality? Is he saying hey, I'm writing to the physical descendants of Abraham. I'm writing to the Hebrews. I'm writing to the Israelites No, no. He said I'm writing to everybody who's saved. Anybody who has obtained like precious faith with us Now look at chapter 3 of 2 Peter. He says in 2 Peter 3 verse 1 This second epistle beloved I now write unto you in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance That tells me right there that 2 Peter is written to the same people that 1 Peter is written to Because he's saying I'm writing you guys the second epistle So if 1 Peter is written to Gentiles living in Bithynia and Pontus and Asia and Cappadocia and Galatia Guess what 2 Peter is written to the same people those who have received like precious faith in Christ Go if you would to Luke chapter 1 So now we've seen 15 books so far that are specifically spelled out as being written to Gentile people in Gentile places And specifically Greek speaking people in Greek speaking places So the count's up to 15 now and there's only 27 books in the New Testament Let's look at Luke and see who Luke is written to Luke chapter 1 verse 1 this is the first of the four gospels we'll look at It says for as much as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us Even as they delivered them unto us which from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word It seemed good to me also having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first To write unto thee in order most excellent Theophilus That thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou has been instructed So we have a Greek guy named Lucas writing to a Greek guy named Theophilus So the book of Luke is clearly written to a Greek speaking audience by a Greek speaking man The book of Acts, you don't have to turn there, is written to the same audience Luke wrote Acts as well That's why Acts chapter 1 says the former treatise have I made O Theophilus of all that Jesus began both to do and teach So in Acts chapter 1 verse 1 he talks about having written the book of Luke And he's writing the book of Acts to the same guy as a follow up He's writing Acts to him to let him know what Look down at Luke 1 verse 4 what's the purpose of the book of Luke That thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou has been instructed This guy already knew the gospel He already was saved He already knew the death, burial and resurrection of Christ But Luke wanted him to know the certainty of the things wherein he was instructed And that's exactly what we need today in church When we come to church on a Sunday morning, a Sunday night and a Wednesday night We need to be shored up on what we believe We need to be rooted and grounded Why? So that we're not tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine Something that's so easy to prove from the Bible That the New Testament is a Greek book written to Greek people But people come up, well hey did you know it was actually written in Hebrew And people follow that hook, line and sinker Why? Because they don't know the certainty of the things wherein they've been instructed They're not getting doctrine today In fact your average independent Baptist church, here's what they tell you Son, daughter, you need to go to Bible college for at least one year So that you can get a foundation of doctrine Well what have you been doing with my time for the last 17, 18 years When you had three hours a week to preach to me What are they doing? It's a lot of fluff It's a lot of ra ra shish kumba It's a lot of encouragement And look, I'm for encouragement I'm for a pep talk I'm for motivational sermons I'm for hard preaching against sin We need hard preaching against sin We need somebody to get up and rip face and cry loud and spare not But let me tell you something, you know what else we need? We need somebody to teach us the Bible And the Bible says the pastor needs to be apt to teach And we need more teaching going on in churches today We need to learn the Bible and know the Bible I want you as a member of Faithful Word Baptist Church To hold this book in your hand And you know that there's 66 books in it And you know what the Old Testament's about And you know what the New Testament's about You know who wrote it, who it's written to What it says, what the doctrine is And then when somebody comes to you with these goofball doctrines like Did you know his name's not really Jesus? It's actually Yeshua? You're immediately going to say, that's a lie That's a fraud I know what the Bible says And I know why I believe it And I know the certainty of the things wherein I've been instructed But something as basic as the name of Jesus That's pretty basic I mean would you call the name of Jesus a deep doctrine Or would you say that's kind of a starter doctrine A basic, beginner doctrine But yet today we have Christians even being drawn away And confused Where they're like, whoa Have we got the wrong name? It's like, are you even saved? That's the only name whereby we must be saved But we have today these institutions called Bible colleges That basically give an excuse for pastors not to teach the Bible Because they say, oh well, you'll get your doctrine over there And then they ship them off to some other city or some other state To go get their doctrine And listen, a lot of the doctrine coming out of these Bible colleges is not right It's not the right doctrine And the doctrine in the local churches is usually better than the doctrine that's found in the Bible colleges Because usually the local churches There's a lot of just humble pastors who are reading their Bible And just preaching it as they see it These institutions that are Bible colleges You know, they teach a lot of corrupt doctrine And they have an agenda of bringing in more students So they kind of want to appeal to a broad range of churches So that's going to affect their doctrine Whereas, you know, you're more likely to get good doctrine just from a local church Just from an independent pastor who's just got the Holy Spirit living inside of him And he opens the Bible and reads it and preaches it You know, and we'd be better off today if people followed the doctrines of the thousands of churches across America Than these Bible college doctrines And the point is that you shouldn't have to go to Bible college and pay a bunch of money To learn the Bible What are we coming to church for on Sunday morning? Sunday night, Wednesday night Look, if you go to this church for a year You will learn a lot about the Bible You will know the Bible well You don't need to go to Bible college You come here for a year And we're only going to take three hours a week And it's free And you'll learn more Because we're actually teaching the Bible here But the problem is you get a shallow sermon Everything's an encouragement Everything's a sermon against sin Everything's a motivation to go soul wedding No, no, no We need to balance the package here by teaching the Bible And you need to learn the certainty of the things wherein you've been instructed You know, how about for starters that the New Testament is written in Greek And that his name is Jesus Not Yahshua or Yahashua or Yahshua Whatever different spellings That the Hebrew roots movement or the black Hebrew Israelites or whoever else Comes out with of the spelling of the week Let's go if we would To our next book Revelation chapter 1 Revelation chapter 1 Last book in the New Testament Why? We want to be rooted and grounded In what we believe And coming to church is not enough You've got to read the Bible on your own You know, I'm just giving you the skeleton this morning I'm just giving you the outline You've got to go in and read the whole book of Luke Read the whole book of Acts Read the whole book of Revelation Fill in the blanks So, what we've confirmed so far is that 17 books so far, right? 13 epistles that Paul wrote 2 epistles that Peter wrote And the 2 books that Luke wrote Were up to 17 books confirmed Greek books To Greek speaking audience, right? Go to Revelation chapter 1 verse 4 Who is the book of Revelation written to? Because now we're getting into a new author We've talked about Paul We've talked about Peter We've talked about Luke Let's talk about the next author of the New Testament The Apostle John This is not John the Baptist This is the Apostle John that followed Christ Verse 4 John to the 7 churches which are in Israel Is that what it says? No, John to the 7 churches which are in Asia Grace be unto you and peace From him which is and which was and which is to come And from the 7 spirits which are before his throne Look at verse 11 Saying I'm Alpha and Omega The first and the last Alpha and Omega? What alphabet are those letters from? Notice he didn't say I am Aleph and Toph He didn't say I'm Aleph and Toph He said I'm Alpha and Omega What alphabet is that? That's the Greek alphabet I'm Alpha and Omega The first and the last And what thou seest Write in a book And send it unto the 7 churches which are in Asia Unto Ephesus That's familiar from the book of Ephesians Unto Smyrna Unto Pergamos Unto Thyatira Unto Sardis And unto Philadelphia And unto Laodicea Now flip over to chapter 9 So again clearly he's writing to Gentile places Greek speaking places Greek speaking people Now look if you would at Revelation chapter 9 Here's some internal evidence also That the book of Revelation is written in Greek This verse, Revelation 9-11 Would only make sense if this book were written in Greek It wouldn't make sense if it were written in Hebrew Look at Revelation chapter 9 verse 11 It says they add a king over them Which is the angel of the bottomless pit Whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon But in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon Now if he's just writing to people in Hebrew Wouldn't it be enough to just say Hey this guy's name's Abaddon His name in the Hebrew is Abaddon I mean that should be enough Why? Because Abaddon is a Hebrew word from the Old Testament So if he was talking to people who spoke Hebrew Right? He would tell them This guy's name is Abaddon And then they'd go Oh I remember reading that word Abaddon In the Old Testament Now I know what you're talking about That makes sense Why in the world would he tell them Oh by the way here's what it is in Chinese Why doesn't it say what it is in Chinese Oh by the way here's what it is in Korean That wouldn't make any sense would it? No what he's telling them is that In the Hebrew tongue his name is Abaddon But in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon So he's basically saying Here's a name that you'll understand Right? So here's the tie in to the Old Testament Hebrew Abaddon But in the Greek for you That would be Apollyon to you Right? So it's clear that Revelation is written in Greek Alpha and Omega Greek tongue It's Apollyon It's written to seven churches in a Greek speaking region Go back to 3 John Just a couple pages before the beginning of Revelation Go back to Revelation chapter 1 Just go a few more pages left You'll find a book called 3 John So John wrote five books in the New Testament He wrote the Gospel of John Three Epistles First, second and third John And then he wrote the fifth book, the book of Revelation Clearly Revelation is written in Greek Ok? So we can take that one out of the way So let's look at some other books that John wrote To figure out who John writes to and in what language he writes Look at 3 John verse number 1 The elder under the well-beloved Gaius Whom I love in the truth So he's writing this epistle to one guy Named Gaius Right? Gaius Well Gaius is a Greek name Not only that, look at verse 9 I wrote unto the church But Diotrephes Who loveth to have the preeminence among them receiveth us not Guess what kind of name Diotrephes is? A Greek name You say, well how do you know that? Well the same way that I know that Juan and Pablo and Maria are Spanish names The same way that if somebody were named Jaime or Santiago I would know that that person has a Spanish name I don't have to wonder if Francois or Philippe are French Or they have some kind of a French name for some reason These names are distinct, right? Whereas if somebody comes up to me and their name's Shlomo You know, that's gonna say something about their background So we can look at these names and these names cry out It's a Greek name Diotrephes Okay, that's who's in the church So it's a Greek church Okay, Greek people And then here's the good example in the church Look at verse 12 Here's a good guy in the church The bad guy in the church is called Diotrephes The good guy's name is Demetrius Demetrius hath good report of all men That's not a Hebrew name That's not a Bible name from the Old Testament That's a Greek name Demetrius hath good report of all men and of the truth itself Yea, and we also bear record And you know that our record is true Okay, so we see that when John writes an epistle He writes it to a Greek guy in a Greek church There's a Greek hero and a Greek villain Now let's go to the book of John The Gospel of John When we go to Revelation He's talking Alpha and Omega He's translating stuff into Greek, Apollyon He's writing it to seven churches in Asia What about the big one, the Gospel of John Who is the Gospel of John written to? Well let me start out by saying this First of all, that the Gospel of John Is by far the most negative about the Jews Matthew, Mark, Luke and John The one that's pretty negative about the Jews The book of John And that's where you find Jesus telling the Jews I know that you're Abraham's seed But Abraham's not your father You're of your father, the devil he told him I mean he uses very strong words to condemn the Jews In the book of John The Gospel of John has that as a theme That the Jews are doing wickedly at that time By and large It starts out in the book He came unto his own Meaning to the nation of Israel, to the Jews And his own received him not But as many as received him To them gave he power to become the sons of God Even to them that believe on his name Which were born not of blood They were born of blood It's not, oh it's in my blood Because I'm of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob No, they're not born of blood Nor of the will of man, nor the will of the flesh They're born of God And how do you get born of God? By believing on Jesus Christ You're born again, you're a child of God John 1-12 teaches us that John 3-16 teaches us that But look at John chapter 6 And what you'll find over and over again In the book of John Is clear evidence That he's not writing to Jews But that he's writing to a Greek speaking audience A Gentile audience about the Jews Notice what he says In chapter 6 verse 4 Why doesn't he just say In chapter 6 verse 4 Why doesn't it just say And the Passover was nigh Wouldn't that be enough for a Jew to understand Is there any Jew or Hebrew or Israelite Who doesn't know what the Passover is So why doesn't he just say Hey the Passover was nigh He says the Passover A feast of the Jews Was nigh So he has to educate The audience here Of what the Passover is By the way that's a Jewish holiday And notice he doesn't say that it's even Look at chapter 7 verse 2 Let's see the same thing So in 6-4 it said The Passover A feast of the Jews was nigh John 7 verse 2 Now the Jews feast of Tabernacles was at hand Why didn't he just say The feast of Tabernacles was at hand Why? Because it's not for us It's not something we celebrate And it's obvious in the book of John That he's distancing from these Saying oh that's what the Jews That's what they did That's the Jews holiday That's why as a Christian I'm not going to celebrate The feast of Tabernacles And I'm not going to put on a yarmulke And celebrate the Jews Passover That's why it says in John chapter 2 You don't have to turn there You go to chapter 11 John chapter 2 verse 13 And the Jews Passover was at hand And Jesus went up to Jerusalem Look at John chapter 11 verse 55 And the Jews Passover was nigh at hand And many went out of the country Up to Jerusalem before the Passover To purify themselves So notice all throughout the book I just showed you four examples In the book of John And there's more of Hey it's the Jews Passover Oh the Passover That's a feast of the Jews Jews feast of Tabernacles He didn't say it's the Christians feast of Tabernacles He didn't say it's our feast of Tabernacles He didn't say it's the Lord's feast of Tabernacles No no no Because we don't follow those practices We don't do those holidays Those things are done away in Christ It's very clear And so the book of John is clearly You can't read this and say Oh it's written to the Jews That'd be silly wouldn't it All the books that John wrote Which is five books Are clearly written to the Gentiles They're written to Greeks Diatrophes, Demetrius, Gaius Churches in Asia So now that brings us up to 22 So I've just proved from the Bible That all the books that Paul wrote That we looked at That Peter wrote That Luke wrote That John himself wrote That they're written to Greeks So look There's only 27 books We've looked at 22 There's five left Okay So let's talk about those last five Here's the last five That we didn't just prove Are written to Greeks We have Matthew This is what's left Matthew, Mark, Hebrews, James and Jude Right Matthew, Mark, Hebrews, James and Jude Now who do you think Hebrews is written to The Jews Right Hebrews is written to the Hebrews Amen So you have a book there That's specifically is addressed To the Hebrews You're not gonna get an argument Out of me on that I mean look I have no dog in this fight If it's written to the Hebrews It's written to the Hebrews friend But guess what Luke isn't John isn't Acts isn't Romans isn't Corinthians isn't And on and on Go to James chapter 1 Let's see who James is being written to Who is James primarily addressing his epistle to The book of Hebrews is addressed to the Hebrews It's written to the Jews clearly Look at James chapter 1 verse 1 And we will see Who this book is written to James 1-1 says James a servant of God And of the Lord Jesus Christ To the twelve tribes Which are scattered abroad Greeting So who is James written to It's written to the Israelites Right It's written to the twelve tribes scattered abroad See if it's written to the Israelites God tells us that So Hebrews and James are written to the Israelites Now the other three I'm sorry there's one more That I believe is clearly written to the Hebrews And that would be the book of Matthew Why Because when you read the book of Matthew There's so many references to the Old Testament So many Old Testament quotes It clearly is written toward A Jewish or Hebrew audience So I believe that there are three books in the New Testament That clearly have a Hebrew audience And that would be Matthew Hebrews And James I proved twenty-two books are for sure written to the Greeks And then there are two books That don't really say for sure You know, either way And that would be the Gospel of Mark And the Gospel of Jude Or I mean the Epistle of Jude So the Epistle of Jude and the Gospel of Mark I don't have any real clear evidence But I personally have zero doubt That those are written to a Greek speaking Gentile audience In my opinion Just from reading them Just from reading them I don't have like a smoking gun Like I do with the other twenty-two Where I could just prove it to you So In total Here's what we're left with Everybody paying attention? Here's what we're left with Twenty-two books that are for sure directed at the Gentiles Three books that are for sure directed at the Hebrews And two books That although I don't have the clear proof I believe Are clearly directed toward the Gentiles as well Two that you could argue could go either way Even though I wouldn't believe it for one second So let me ask you this Is this a Hebrew root? Okay, let me ask you this How many books Of the New Testament Would have to be written in Greek And use the name of Jesus In order for Jesus To be a name that the Holy Spirit has taught us How many would have to use that name? Only one If there's one book inspired by God That says His name is Jesus Then we'd say His name's Jesus How many would it take? Just one But we have twenty-seven books That were all written in Greek Because even the books that are directed at the Hebrews Were originally written in Greek Because the Hebrews spoke Greek They were scattered all over these Greek-speaking nations And they knew the language where they lived Now here's the other thing that people say You expect me to believe that Jesus and the apostles spoke Greek? Now go, if you would, to the book of John, chapter 12 You expect me to believe that Jesus and the apostles spoke Greek? Obviously they spoke Hebrew Okay Well, where did Jesus grow up? What's the name of the region where Jesus grew up? What's it called? What's it called? Nice and loud Galilee, right? Jesus grew up in Galilee And you know what Galilee is called? In the book of Matthew It's called Galilee of the Gentiles Galilee of the Gentiles Why? Because Jesus lived in a place Where he was right on the border Of what? He was right on the border Of where Greek was predominantly spoken And where Aramaic Which is sort of just a bastardized Hebrew Where Aramaic was spoken He was right on that borderline Between the Aramaic-speaking area And the Greek-speaking area And let me tell you something If we were to get in our car right now And go to a border town Like, say, Nogales Or Yuma Or El Centro Or in McAllen, Texas Let me tell you something You're going to hear a lot of Spanish And when you turn on the radio You're going to hear Spanish And you're going to hear Spanglish Where the radio host And this was the weirdest thing The first time I heard this I was driving down Interstate 8 And I was really bored And I was flipping through the AM dial And I heard Spanglish And I've heard that term Spanglish But I didn't really know what it was Because I thought Spanglish Just is when you're struggling You don't really know the language And you're kind of mixing it a little bit But no, no, no These people are fluent in both But they speak Spanglish Like, they'll talk for like 20 minutes on the radio And just every other sentence But they're not translating They don't say the same thing In English and then translate it in Spanish They'll just start the sentence in English And finish it in Spanish Start the sentence in Spanish Finish it in English And they just go back and forth And they're just talking back and forth Just back and forth, back and forth Why? Because virtually everybody in that town Speaks both English and Spanish That's why They speak both If we were to go to Africa today The average person in Africa Speaks two or three languages The average person in India Speaks two or three languages The average person in Europe Speaks two or three languages What do you call somebody who speaks two languages? What do you call somebody who speaks three languages? Trilingual, right? And what do you call somebody who speaks one language? An American You call them an American Why? Because we already speak the main language of the world, English So the vast majority of people in America Have no need to learn a second language There's no reason for it But in other parts of the world People speak usually about three languages They usually speak their local dialect This is very local to them Then they usually speak a more regional language And then they'll speak English as a third language usually When we were in Botswana Pretty much everybody spoke two languages They all spoke Setswana and English Virtually everybody Okay, a lot of people in India Will speak their regional dialect And Hindi Which is sort of the national language And English So the point is That Jesus and his disciples Probably spoke a couple languages Especially living near the border They're all from Galilee, right? Are not all these which speak in us Galileans? Now think about how ridiculous it is To think that Jesus Who's 30 years old Right? 30 to 33 Was his ministry pretty much, right? And then think about the men that are following him We know that Peter's married I mean, these men are adults They're fishermen They're tax collectors They have jobs These guys I mean, how old were they? We can assume they're probably like 30 themselves Okay 20, 30, 40, whatever But let's just assume that these guys are like 30 years old So I'm supposed to believe That these guys are preaching and teaching All throughout Israel All throughout Judea All throughout Samaria And these different places And although they avoided You know, really evangelizing Samaria Until after the crucifixion They did go through there and spend some time there There's stories like that in the New Testament But I'm supposed to believe That these guys didn't speak a lick of Greek They just spoke Hebrew But that they wrote all these books in Greek Well, how do you Let me ask you something Can you write a book in a language that you don't speak? Okay, if you're 30 years old And you don't know a lick of Spanish And then you start learning Spanish at age 30 You think you're going to be writing a book in that language? No, you're not That doesn't make any sense, folks In order to write a book in Greek You have to speak Greek Probably as a native language Probably as a language that you're very I mean, it's hard Look, it's hard to write a book in English Who here has written a book before? Put up your hand if you've written a book Alright Who has never written a book before? Okay So Is it because of a language barrier? No But now write a book in a foreign language Now you say, well, it's the Holy Ghost Yeah, but the Holy Ghost is using human beings They speak as they're moved by the Holy Ghost And they're not writing in a foreign language That they don't understand They're spending time in these places They're writing to people that they know That they're buddies with They know who Demetrius is They know who Gaius is They know all these people They're hanging around with people that are Greeks Because they spoke Greek Because they spoke both So to sit there and say Oh, Jesus didn't know Greek The apostles didn't know Greek It doesn't make any sense Look at John chapter 12 This is really interesting John chapter 12 verse 20 And by the way This book that I'm holding in my hand Never mentions Yeshua one time Never once It just says Jesus Jesus, Jesus, Jesus And this book was translated from this book Okay This is a Greek New Testament This is the source of this This was translated into English for us Thank God But this is the source And this book never says Yeshua in it One time Not even once And this is the original language This is our language Neither one of them says Yeshua But we have a bunch of liars and frauds today Putting out a King James Bible With the sacred names restored, they say And you can buy now at the store A King James version That takes out Jesus and puts in Yeshua It takes out the Lord And puts in Yahweh And these names Yahweh and Yeshua Are a total fraud anyway Of modern Christ rejecting Israel Those aren't even the original ancient names And the bottom line is that Jesus His name is Jesus He said, wow, it wasn't really Jesus It didn't have a J back then Okay Here's how it's spelled Here's how it's spelled Let me spell it for you in this book Right here, the Greek New Testament Because I know this is all Greek to you Let me just spell it for you I And I'm using English letters equivalents Okay I E S O U S Everybody got that? I E S O U S Now, if we were to go to the back of the Atarim And you can do this after I'm done preaching Go back to that corner back there And you will find an exact replica Of the 1611 edition of the King James Bible That is, and if you pick it up That's the exact weight The paper is made out of the same material Everything about that book is authentic back there Because I've held the real one in my hand That's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars And you can go to a museum in Goodyear, Arizona And see an original first edition And you'll see that that is an accurate representation Down to the last typo Down to the material of the paper And if you go back there and you look up the name of Jesus You know how it's going to be spelled in that English book right there? It's spelled like this I E S U S So in this book it's I E S O U S In that book it's I E S U S So let me ask you this Is this book, the King James Bible, accurately representing the name of our Savior? Because is there a difference between O U S It's both us Right? Or oos If we were speaking Spanish, right, we'd say Jesus Or if we were speaking German we'd say Jesus And if we're speaking English we say Jesus That's just how we pronounce it Jesus That is no J There's no J in the King James either In 1611 But an I and a J Are used interchangeably in the English language until recently The J is just a stylized I It's just an I that has a little tail At the bottom Right? Now you say, well what in the world does an I have to do with a J? Okay Well if you want to know that Talk to anybody who's from South America You can talk to, where's Evelyn Royero? Where is she? Alright Ask her if the I can ever make a J sound And she'll say Jess Okay? And she'll tell you about a city called Hermosillo Okay, why? Because of the fact that different people in different areas They will make that Y sound into a J It's the same sound And you know what a Y is called in Spanish? I GRIEGA Greek I I GRIEGA So you know I'm not trying to go down all deep this morning The point that I'm trying to make here Is that the name that's in this Greek book right here And the name that's in this English book That's his real name It's Jesus There's no Yahshua Yahashua Yahshuwa None of that's in here And you know what? If you believe in that stuff If you're going to say Oh I think it's Yahweh I think it's Yahshua You didn't get that from the Bible You didn't get that from any Bible You got that from an internet video Or an article Or some Judaizing crypto Jew Sold you that bill of goods Or some Black Heber Israelite Dressed up like Battlestar Galactica or something That's where you got that from You did not get that from the Bible Look, if you're going to tell me When you say don't make a big deal It's just a name It's just a language No no no Let me tell you this If his real name is Yahshua Listen carefully If his real name is Yahshua And his real name's not Jesus Or Jesus Or Jesus Then let me tell you something Then this book is a lie Because it has the wrong name That makes this book a lie And if this book is a lie That means this book's a lie Because this book is translated from this book That's exactly That's the end game That's where you end up So it starts out with just Hey buddy Hey kid come here Psst Hey kid over here His real name Is Yahshua And then it seems like Oh okay yeah We're just kind of getting back to our Hebrew roots a little bit You know But you know what it eventually is designed to do To destroy faith in this book That's the end game That's where it leads you I want you to know the certainty of those things Where you've been instructed They want to basically Destroy your faith in this book Because this is the progression First you say Oh it's Yahshua Well then the logical conclusion is That this book's wrong And the logical conclusion would also be That this book's wrong So they start you out with a gateway drug Of a King James That says Yahshua and Yahweh But as soon as you actually have two brain cells to rub together You're going to realize Well if the King James had it wrong about the name Maybe it's wrong about other stuff too And if it's pulling from a Greek New Testament Well we've got to discard that Because that's not a Hebrew root And then we end up discarding this And you know what we end up left with? We're left with the Old Testament Hebrew Bible And the Talmud It's a gateway to get you into Judaism Christ rejecting Judaism That's the plan That's the plan It's to de-Christianize and to Judaize And look It's evil It's of the devil It's a false wicked agenda And I want to close on the Oh we never looked at John 12 did we? Let's look at John 12 This is interesting John chapter 12 verse 20 says this It says There came certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast The same came therefore to Philip which was of Bethsaida of Galilee And desired him saying Sir we would see Jesus We want to see Jesus And by the way this is like a week before Jesus is crucified This is right at the very end of his life Sir we would see Jesus Look at verse 22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew And again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus So this isn't just a run of the mill thing Lots of people want to see Jesus I mean Jesus is a popular guy Jesus when he preaches has thousands of people coming to hear him When he preaches in a house the house is overflowing and people are falling out the window But this is special God made a point to tell us about this And in fact it's so significant That these Greeks come and ask to see Jesus That the Bible records this run of the mill encounter But not only that When they tell Philip Philip feels like he needs to go tell Andrew And that they both need to have some kind of a pow wow And then we're both going to go tell Jesus together So it's interesting to them It's not just an everyday thing Because they're used to Hebrews and Israelites And people who are coming to worship at Jerusalem But these people were not among the worshippers They came among them physically But they were not themselves the worshippers But they came among the worshippers Meaning all these people came But then all of a sudden there's these Greek guys It's like what are these guys doing here And then the Greeks come and they say Well sirs we want to see Jesus And it's like wow you guys came here Because you heard the fame of Jesus You're Gentiles And they have to talk to each other Because they're probably thinking to themselves I don't know does Jesus want to talk to Gentiles right now Because in the past he was focusing on the Jews and Israel So you know I don't know Andrew what do you think Andrew These Greeks want to talk to Jesus What do you think Andrew Well I don't know let's go tell Jesus Let's go together Nothing in the Bible is coincidental my friend This story if it didn't have significance It wouldn't be here It doesn't tell us every time they got up And sat down and ate lunch And went to the store All those things that matter Especially the book of John has very few stories in it It's mainly Jesus' preaching So it's significant Philip cometh and telleth Andrew verse 22 And again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus And Jesus answered them So is Jesus talking about something unrelated He's answering them They're saying hey these Greeks are here to see you And how did he answer them He answered them Saying the hour is come That the son of man should be glorified Verily verily I say unto you Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die It abideth alone But if it die it bringeth forth much fruit Jump down to verse 27 Now is my soul troubled And what shall I say father Save me from this hour But for this cause came I unto this hour He said in verse 32 And I if I be lifted up from the earth Will draw all men unto me This he said signifying what death he should die What's his response when they come to him and say Hey these Greeks are here to see you You know what it's time The hour's come It's time for me to die Why? Because the death of the testador Is what brings in the New Testament According to Hebrews He's saying you know what It's time to bring in a New Testament And these Greek people who came to talk to Jesus Was a sign From God And when Jesus saw it he recognized this is a sign They tell him these Greeks are here to see you These Gentile Greeks want to see you And he says you know what it's time That was the signal to Jesus Where he said it's time Why? Because God is symbolizing Or picturing the fact that the New Testament Is not going to be about Israel It's not going to be about the Jews It's not going to be about the Hebrews It's going to be about the Greeks and the Gentiles So that's the sign Go to Matthew 21 And we'll close with Matthew 21 That's not an accident That those Greeks came and wanted to see Jesus And he said you know what Now my hour's come And I'm troubled because I have to go to the cross And suffer For the sins of mankind But look at Matthew 21 43 And I'll close on this thought The Bible says therefore say I unto you The kingdom of God Is given to Israel to the Jews He says the kingdom of God Shall be taken from you And given to a nation Bringing forth the fruits Thereof Here's the bottom line I'm just going to tie it all together for you today Everything we just looked at Why spend a whole sermon talking about the fact That the New Testament is written in Greek What's the point? Here's the point This book right here is a tool This is the sword of the spirit This is a weapon This book is what we use To do the work of God Right? Without this tool we can't do the work of God Now this tool is not going to do you any good Unless you speak Greek But this tool right here Is what you need The English translation of that book You can't do anything for God You can't preach a sermon without these words You can't win souls to Christ Look, this is the tool To serve God What does it mean to be the chosen people? I mean, does chosen people mean That you're just chosen to be special? You're chosen to be better than everyone else You're chosen so that we can all bow down to you And think you're great Is that why he chose Israel in the Old Testament? Is that why he chose 12 apostles? Just, you win You get to be the people That everybody looks up to You get to be the people That everybody looks up to The chosen What does it mean to be chosen? You're chosen for service Get this point You're chosen for service That's why Jesus said to the apostles You've not chosen me But I've chosen you and ordained you That you should bring forth fruit And that your fruit would remain He picked 12 disciples to work I'm choosing you to be my full time workers He chose 70 other apostles To do work To work Why did he choose the Old Testament nation of Israel? Just to be the special chosen ones? No, he chose them to do a work They were supposed to be A light to the Gentiles They were supposed to be a pattern nation They were supposed to be The ones who would preach the word of God To the whole world And be an example Where all nations would hear of their righteous laws And their righteous nation And want to come and be a part of it That's what it says in Deuteronomy You know, what nation is like this nation? That's what they should be saying And that's mentioned in the context of them being chosen So, in the New Testament The Jews are not the chosen vessel They're not the chosen people Why? Because God, first of all God didn't even give the tool in their language God gave the tool in the language God gave the tool to the people that are going to use the tool Because his chosen vessel in the New Testament is the Gentiles Now the Jews can get on board if they'll believe on Christ Because in Christ there's neither Jew nor Gentile Any Jew who wants to believe on Christ Can be a part of Christianity I said Christianity And they can be equal with the Gentiles as Christians But there's nothing special about them at all Nothing Nada Why? Because the service is what they're chosen for And look, you and I today Have been chosen to serve God has chosen to use us That's why he gave us the Bible in our language So that we can do work with it Why do we have And people say Well why would God give us the perfect Bible in English? Why English? English You know why he gave us the perfect pure word of God in English in the form of the King James Bible Preserved and passed down and accurately translated from the original tongues Because we're the ones that are doing something with it Now look, the Greek people these days They're not doing much with it are they? I mean when was the last time you saw Greeks going all over the world and preaching the gospel You don't go to Africa and run into all these Greek missionaries And there's Greek missionaries No no no The Greeks are dead spiritually now They're not doing the work anymore So God couldn't just leave it in Greek First of all he wanted to translate it into all languages So that all men could be saved anyway And so that all men could have the tool to do works for him Of all nations But today The people that are doing the most soul winning And the most preaching And serving God the most speak English Like it or lump it No no no Guess what the Spanish speakers Most of them are doing? Catholic Most of Spanish What are they? Pentecostal Now look, are there great Spanish speaking churches that are being used greatly by God? Yes, amen There are a lot of great Iglesias Bautistas That are doing great work for God I'm not trying to say that But I'm trying to tell you that if you took all the languages of the world And put them in a row You'll notice that the one who's doing the most for God Are the ones that speak English Now look It doesn't have to be that way Because do you think God cares whether we speak English or Spanish or Chinese? You know what he cares about? Getting the work done And if the Spanish speakers want to step up to the plate And be the next great missionaries And the next great preachers And the ones to reach the world with Christ Then let's do it Spanish speakers Right? If the Chinese want to become the greatest Christians of all time And bring the gospel all over the globe Do it If the Arab Christians want to do it Do it Why? Because God is going to use whoever brings forth the fruit And in the New Testament That's not the Jews It's never been the Jews It's never going to be the Jews That tree has been withered And that fake tree will never bring forth fruit again We're the chosen generation Now what does that mean when we say We even have a t-shirt about it that we like to wear We're the chosen people Is that a prideful statement of Hey we're better? No no no What it means is that we're the ones God's using But you know what? God can use you too You can buy that shirt too You can make that shirt too Anybody who wants to can wear that shirt You don't have to be white to wear that shirt You don't have to be black to wear that shirt You don't have to speak English to wear that shirt You know You don't have to be Jewish You don't have to be non-Jewish You know the only thing you need to do to wear that shirt Is just believe in Jesus And if Jesus is in your heart you can wear that shirt We're the chosen people In time past we were not a people But now we are Chosen to reach the entire world With the gospel of Jesus Christ What the Jews failed to do We're going to do We're going to succeed and God knew that And he looked down from heaven And he saw that English speaking people Were going to take the Bible into Africa And India and China and all of the world And he said you know what? I better make sure they get the tool I better make sure that King James authorizes 54 of the smartest men who ever lived To spend 7 years translating it Because I want to make sure that sword is sharp Because there's going to be so many people wielding it You know what? And today as we see More Spanish speaking churches Starting And more Baptists And more Christians And people being saved amongst the Spanish speaking world We notice that their sword is getting sharpened up They're sharpening up that Reina Valera version And getting it sharpened up And they're getting it sharpened up And getting it sharpened up Getting it improved and better Why did God give us the tool? Because we're going to use it And anybody who's going to use it, he'll give them the tool If they do with what they got And if somebody speaks a language Where all they have is John and Romans Well you know what? If they take that John and Romans And they start winning souls And preaching and winning people of the Lord And you know what? God's going to give them more Because unto him that hath more shall be given Jesus But guess what? The Jews They're not doing anything with it They're blaspheming it. They're hating it They're not the chosen ones And I'm so sick of the Baptist Pastors and preachers Just repeating this lie That the Jews are the God's chosen people It doesn't even make sense Chosen to do what? To hate Jesus? Chosen to do what? Have a democracy in the Middle East? Is that really God's program? To create the world and create democracies It's the preaching gospel of Jesus That's the choosing That's what we're chosen for We're the elect We're the chosen Why? Because God has a job for us to do And you're hired If you believe on Jesus