 China is writing a new Bible, but why am I not bothered? Many of you heard that China is undertaking, I think about a 10 year project to rewrite the Bible. It's been told, reported, we don't know for sure that certain texts are gonna be changed. Some texts are gonna be kind of more communist friendly, such as the 10 Commandments being changed to where you're not having any of the guys before him to kind of having authority or shunning, Western authorities, that kind of thing. We're not totally sure. It's also been reports about the woman caught in adultery. Interesting thing is about that that particular passage probably isn't, well, we know it's not there. It doesn't belong in John 753 to 811. Does it belong in any other parts of the Bible? That's another story, but taking that out and then rewriting it to say that Jesus, after asking is anyone there to condemn her, then he stones her and then says that I'm a sinner. Also, something like that, we're not sure. Do I think that China is going to go through with this? Probably so. I mean, there are more Chinese Christians even in the underground church than there are people in the Communist Party. So what is China's thought? Well, if you can't beat them, join them. That's kind of China's little evil plan anyway. It's their way when it comes to economics. It's their way when it comes to military might. China wants to dominate every aspect of people's life. But why am I not all that concerned about it? I'll tell you why. Because it's not the biggest threat. What's the biggest threat? Well, first of all, before I go there, let's stop and look at what's always been happening. This isn't new. A bigger force, a stronger force, more than China has already undertaken this. That is the enemy, the devil. Remember in Genesis 3, the Bible says the serpent was more crafty and that any other beast of the field, even more than China. And he said to the woman, indeed has God said that you should not eat from any tree of the garden. The woman said to the serpent, from the fruit of the trees of the garden, we may eat, but from the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, the middle of the garden, God has said you shall not eat from it, nor touch it lest you die. What's the serpent's response? You surely will not die. For God knows the day that you eat of it, your eyes will be open. You'll be like God knowing good and evil. So what is Satan gonna do? He's gonna tell you, he's always always been his plan. So always been his MO. That's not in the Bible. That's not what the word says. But then if you say, yeah, it is, if you're convinced of it is, well, that's not what it means. And then he'll use kind of appeal to your desires. And so that hadn't changed. Whether there's a China or whether there's United States of America, or whoever else, whether there's a move, because there's always been a move to, to kind of get rid of a fidelity to the scriptures. You hear more and more people saying that, well, all of God's words aren't in the Bible. Yeah, but all the words of God wants us to know what they are. You hear people say that we don't have to necessarily stick to the text. They don't want you to adhere to actually, being a good exegete, hermeneutics are a bad word. No, let's lean more on the spirit. The problem is, who's spirit? How do we know your spirit is the spirit? Two people said they have a Holy Spirit and they both disagree. Well, how do we know which one is right? John says that we should test everything that every spirit is not of God. So test it. How? By the word. David makes a statement in Psalm 119. Your word, have I hidden in my heart that I may not sin against you. The people of China, especially those in the underground church, the persecuted church, they already know this. They hide the word in their hearts. As a matter of fact, if you're in jail, if you're persecuted and you're a Christian in jail, they smuggle Bibles in and you have a page or two often and you have to memorize this. And after memorizing it, you either destroy it or you pass it on. So what are they doing? They're committing a full page or two or three to memorization. Why? To hide it in their heart. They are that series. And so if there's anybody on the planet that I have a lot of faith in in terms of their devotion to the scriptures, it's to people in China. It's us over here who have all these freedoms who willingly, who gleefully distort the scriptures to do just what Eve did because we find something that's appealing to us that is nicest. So we'll take the scriptures and pervert them. That's why we've got a lot of women preachers because we've taken the scriptures and pervert them. That's why we've got folks who are charging monies for deliverance. And the deliverance isn't even real deliverance. It's a fake deliverance because the scriptures teach us that Jesus is the deliverer and having him. If you have him, then you are free indeed. But we have decided to turn our eyes, turn our blind eye to the scriptures, close our ears because we don't wanna see the truth. I'm not worried about what China's gonna do about rewriting the scriptures. I'm not worried about them. I trust more of the people over in China, the Christians there than I do here. See what you don't see in China often is this foolishness that we have over here. You don't see a whole lot of people falling out and doing all of this foolishness. Why? Because they can't. Their lives are really on the line and they love the Lord with their lives on the line. Here, not so much so. And so you'll see people doing things that aren't in the book because they can. They can get away with it. And so what we ought to worry about is if a rewritten Bible comes here to America, but it doesn't matter anyway. It doesn't even matter if someone rewrites the Bible and puts it here in America. Why? Because those Christians who aren't really Christians, who are just looking for anything who have these itching ears, they're not reading the scriptures anyway.