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Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Fave Four Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona to talk about Psalm chapter 2 verse 7. The Bible says, I will declare the decree, the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. This is also quoted in the New Testament in Acts 13, 33 as well as Hebrews chapter 5. Let me read it to you from the NIV. It says, I will proclaim the decree of the Lord. He said to me, you are my son, today I have become your father. And when this is quoted in the NIV in Acts 13 and Hebrews 5, they do the same thing where instead of saying today I have begotten thee, they say today I have become your father. And you say, oh well Pastor Anderson, that's just a language update. No that actually completely changes the meaning and it messes up a very important biblical doctrine known as the eternal sonship of Christ. And this is just one of many places where the NIV is attacking the Trinity or muddying the doctrine of the Trinity. Revelation 14 is another one, 1 John 5, 7 being removed. And we can go on and on all the different places where the Trinity is weakened or outright attacked in the NIV. And this is another place by saying, well today I've become your father. That means that he was not previously his father, which is a false doctrine because the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ, the eternal son of God. Now I'm going to show you from the original languages here that this NIV translation is just out of left field. It's their own interpretation. It has nothing to do with what's actually in the text. What the text is actually saying is, this day have I begotten thee. So here it is in the Hebrew in Psalm chapter two. So asapra el hok, I will declare the decree. And then it says here, aronai amar elai, the Lord said to me, beni ata, beni means my son, beni ata, you, my son, you, or my son, are you, you are my son, you are my son, ani hayom, I today. And then this word is yelidaticha, okay? And this is the word in question here, yelidaticha comes from the three letter root yalad, which means beget, bring forth, or bear, okay? So this word for beget, bring forth, or bear is conjugated here, yelidati, I begat, or I've begotten, and then the chah is the you part of that. So that's the pronomial suffix for you. And so this is yelidaticha, I've begotten you, okay? So basically it's exactly what the King James Bible says in English, right? I'll declare the decree, aronai, the Lord said to me, my son, you are, I today have begotten you, okay? So notice it doesn't say I became your father, you don't see the word father here in this scripture. Where's the word father? It isn't there because that's not what it says, okay? And then down here we have the Greek quotation in the New Testament, yosmu isi, son, my, are you, I, simeron, today, yeyeni casa, yeyeni casa is I've begotten you, we've got of course the perfect past tense, just like we have up here, yeyeni casa, even when you hear the word yeyeni casa, you can think of English words like genetic or generation or regenerate things that are coming from the same root word here in the Greek. So in neither the Greek nor the Hebrew, is there anything about him becoming Jesus' father? And that is doctrinally problematic because again, we always talk about John 1 12, where it says, you know, but as many as received him to them gave you power to become the sons of God. And we say, look, that means they weren't the sons of God before that, but then when they believe on Jesus Christ, they become the sons of God, right? Even then that believe on his name. So you believe on the name of Jesus, you become a son of God, meaning that everyone in this world is not a son of God. You believe on Jesus, you become a son of God. So when you sit there and say in the NIV, oh, today I've become your father. That means yesterday I wasn't your father. And that is a lie because Jesus Christ is and always has been and always will be the son of God. It's known as the eternal sonship of Christ. A lot of people take that doctrine pretty seriously. It's funny. I was thrown off of sermonaudio.com back in 2009, even though I totally agreed with all their articles of faith, followed all the rules and even paid money to upload my audio and video sermons. They just threw me off because they didn't like me. But what's funny, somebody brought that up. So I looked at their articles of faith and they demanded that anybody who even broadcast their sermons on sermon audio must affirm the eternal sonship of Christ. And like I said, I affirmed everything in their articles of faith. So the eternal sonship of Christ is something that's important in regard to our understanding of the Trinity. Now the modalist oneness heretics, the oneness Pentecostals, they don't believe in the eternal sonship of Christ. They don't believe that the son of God existed in the Old Testament or before Bethlehem's manger. They believe that, you know, before Jesus was physically born, there was no son of God. That's a lie. And you know, I'm not going to sit here and preach a whole sermon to you on the eternal sonship of Christ. But you know, I've done multiple sermons on that in the past affirming that important teaching. You see, Jesus Christ is the son of God for three different reasons. He's the son of God because, number one, he enjoys an eternal father-son relationship with God the Father. That makes him the son of God because he just has that eternal father-son relationship. Number two, he is the son of God because he was born not having an earthly father, right? Therefore that holy thing which shall be born of these shall be called the son of God. That's one of the reasons why Jesus is called the son of God because he had no earthly father. And then the third reason why Jesus Christ is called the son of God is because he was resurrected from the dead by God the Father. And that's what this verse is talking about. In fact, let me read for you from Acts 13, 33 in the King James Bible, God had fulfilled the same unto us their children in that he has raised up Jesus again, as it is also written in the second Psalm, thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. Notice it says he raised up Jesus as it is written in the second Psalm, thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. And then in the next breath, he says, as concerning that he raised him from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. So if we get the context of the quotation in Acts 13, 33, what is the day? What's the today? Hayom, or today, simon? What is the day that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead? What's the today talking about? Well, according to Acts 13, 33, it's talking about the resurrection of Christ. That's the day. It says he spake of the resurrection of Christ. Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee concerning that he raised him from the dead. Okay, so the today have I begotten thee has everything to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ, because Jesus Christ was brought forth from the dead. And the Bible calls him in Revelation chapter one, the first begotten from the dead. So the Bible says that Jesus was begotten from the dead. He's the first begotten from the dead concerning the resurrection. He said, thou art my son, today have I begotten thee. So that's not when Jesus started being the son of God, or, you know, that God started being his father at the resurrection. Obviously he was the son of God throughout his earthly ministry. Obviously he was the son of God when he died on the cross for us. And guess what? He was the son of God when he was in the fiery furnace with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in Daniel 325. Oh, yeah, I forgot the NIV takes that out too. And I already have a whole another video debunking that from the original Aramaic proving that their translation is literally impossible in Daniel 325. So we have many numerous Old Testament appearances of the Lord Jesus Christ. He didn't come into existence in Bethlehem's manger. No, he has always been. He always is. He always will be. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. And so the NIV is just yet again attacking the Trinity with its sloppy garbage translation saying, oh, today I've become your father. No, Jesus Christ was begotten from the dead on that day. Okay. And here's the thing. When we believe on Jesus Christ, our dead spirit is quickened or regenerated or resurrected. That's what makes us sons of God. Do we enjoy an eternal father-son relationship with God? No, because in time past we were not the children of God. Okay. Were we born without earthly father? No, we weren't. But yet we're called the sons of God, right? Behold what manner of love the father bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God. Why are we called the sons of God? Only because of reason number three, because we have been resurrected by God. Our spirit has been regenerated by God. We've been brought forth. We've been begotten again into a lively hope, the Bible says. Jesus Christ, the son of God for three reasons. We're the son of God for one reason. That's why Jesus is called the first begotten from the dead, because we're also begotten and will be physically resurrected someday. But it also calls Jesus in John 3 16, the only begotten. Why? Because in regard to the other two reasons, he's the only begotten, you know, he's the only one who's born of a virgin, right? So therefore he's the only begotten, only one born of a virgin, but he's the first begotten in regard to the resurrection. And when it comes to his eternal father-son relationship, hey, John chapter 17 makes that crystal clear when it talks about how the father loved Jesus before the world even began. And of course, John 17 absolutely destroys the oneness Pentecostal or modalist view of God. The eternal sonship is important. The NIV attacks it, and this is just one more brick in the wall of all the places that the NIV attacks the Trinity. God bless you. Have a great day.