 Amen. So here we are in our Baptist Basics series. We're going to talk This evening about our Bible. So this series is about, you know, the fundamentals of our faith. Why? Why we believe certain things just talking about the fundamental doctrines, you know, we've talked about baptism We talked about all the different fundamental doctrines of Being a Baptist and what that means But basically what it means is that we just hold to the doctrines of the Bible And the Bible that we use is the King James Bible, the King James version of the Bible So this evening I want to talk to you about why we are and will always be King James only, okay? So first of all you know, you don't have to keep your place in Psalm chapter 12, but the Bible talks a lot about heresy, okay? The Bible talks a lot about heresy. The Bible warns about heresy. Turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 2 Let's look at, you know, what the Bible says about heresies, when they'll come in, what to look for The Bible warns us about this in Several different places. So let's look at what the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians chapter 2. First of all So there's a lot to the King James version this evening I want to focus largely on the New Testament. Why the New Testament that we have Is the correct one and just some some methodologies and some things that happened and you know It's nothing new these things that have happened. It's nothing new The Bible tells us that these things are going to happen and it's just another way I want to also show you, you know, how we can know that the King James Bible is God's pure words, okay? Look at 2nd Corinthians chapter 2 in verse number 17 First of all the Bible itself warns us that people will try to Twist or pervert the words of God the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians chapter 2 in verse 17 For we are not as many which corrupt We are not as many which corrupt the word of God But as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ He says we are not as many which corrupt the word of God look first of all This whole idea you're gonna you're gonna get people that are scholars and PhDs and all this kind of stuff That really try to pull you in the weeds on how you know the Bible all they found all these different manuscripts that are from the First century, I mean that the first thing I want to get across to you is that means nothing That means absolutely nothing because the Bible was being corrupted in the first century I mean we just studied the book of Galatians and I mean that's exactly what was happening People were corrupting the word of God for we are not as many which corrupt the word of God It was already happening here turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 just a couple chapters over look at verse number one Look what the Bible says therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy We faint not but we have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking in craftiness Nor handling the word of God deceitfully look Paul's writing all these letters that later became You know our New Testament combined together people were already Corrupting his words they were already handling the word of God They were already handling his letters Deceitfully it tells you right here this I mean that's the point of Paul Why he was writing so many letters in many cases to just try to fix people that were changing The doctrines of the Bible as it was being as it was being written it was being corrupted You follow what I'm saying so this idea we found one that's older first of all You know did you or didn't you who really knows but I mean even if you did that what does that even mean? It was being corrupted as it was being written turn to 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 and I'll explain to you also how we can know you say okay? Well, it's being corrupted while it's being written. Well, how do you know what the right one is? I'll explain that to you as well second Thessalonians chapter 2 in verse number one Look what the Bible says now we beseech you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ And by our gathering together unto him that he be soon that he be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled neither by spirit Nor by word Nor by a letter as letter from us as the day of Christ is at hand So look turn to Galatians chapter 1. We just went through this Galatians chapter 1 Galatians chapter 1 look at verse number 6 Galatians chapter 1 in verse number 6 the Bible says I marvel marvel that you are so soon Removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel Which is not another but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ But though we are an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed As we have said before so I say now again if any man preach any other gospel unto you other than you have Yee have received yee by the way You know yee have received let him be accursed I'm gonna explain that to you to what yee means then you'll know so you won't be confused by the King James Bible Okay, but look he's saying here. I marvel that you are so soon removed Meaning he was just there and Somebody's already corrupting the gospel. I mean it was shocking to him So when somebody says oh we found an early manuscript. I mean what does that mean? You know what? I want to know. I don't want to know when it was found. I want to know what it says That's what I want to know Because that will tell us if it is if the Spirit is of God what it says so look The Bible also says this you say oh man You say how does the Bible even have a chance? I mean that's depressing, right? Isn't that depressing think about it think about you're living in the first century Just bring yourself back in time. We're all living in the first century Jesus has come Jesus has died on the cross all these things from the Old Testament have been fulfilled. I mean the Messiah has come here. It is we're out preaching the gospel We go to Galatia. We're giving the gospel. We got a good group there We planted a church in Galatia We leave and like a week later two weeks later We hear that somebody has come in and perverted our words and perverted the words of the Lord I mean imagine that's depressing. That's depressing. You're like oh how in the world is this Christianity is this gospel Gonna survive turn to Matthew chapter 5. I'm glad you asked How in the world would such a message if it's being corrupted by so many people? I mean our most people saved Look where the minority here So we're the minority telling the truth the majority of people out there are spreading lies are spreading false Gospels look at how many false religions are out there today. I mean how does the gospel even have a chance? Well, guess what God's involved and he's made some promises here look at Matthew chapter 5 in verse number 18 Look, we would have no chance at the gospel surviving at the word of God surviving if God Didn't step in there would be no chance Matthew 5 18 for verily I say unto you tell heaven and earth pass One jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled turn to mark 13 Turn to mark 13. I Mean this is a really simple one in mark 13. Look at verse number 31 of mark chapter 13 The Bible says heaven and earth shall pass away But my words Shall not pass away Look, that's a that's a promise That's a promise heaven and earth all this will go away. My words will always be here Is what God says and it's repeated in Luke 21 33 turn to Isaiah 40 Turn to Isaiah 40 Isaiah 40 look at verse number 8 Isaiah 40 in verse number 8 The Bible says the grass withereth the flower fadeeth, but the word of our God shall stand forever Look that doesn't say the word of God will last for a while or For a couple of hundred years It says forever as long as man is on the earth Until God ends this thing According to this plan God's word will be available. It will be somewhere preserved is what the Bible says Look at Psalm 12 look at the front of your bulletin Psalm 12 6 through 7 The words of the Lord are pure words Look that means look so God says that my words Will never pass away. They will be they will be here forever So you will pass away everything will pass away the grass will die the flowers will die everything will go away My words will not pass away and they're also pure The Bible says though the words of the Lord are pure words as Silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times Thou shalt keep them oh Lord Thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever thou meaning. He's talking to God directly In a singular form is what that means thou he's saying thou will keep them look God will keep his words and God has kept his words he's kept them here and We have them here. So here enter the King James Translation Here's what you had like King James the first in England I'm not going to get too detailed into the history of it But King James the first out of England in the early, you know the late 1400s to the early 1500s There was 54 men hand-picked by the king these were the world's leading experts on biblical scholarship and languages of The Bible of the let me just read a quote for you of the 54 translators Four were college presidents six were bishops five were deans 30 held PhDs 39 held master's degrees There were 41 university professors 13 were masters of the Hebrew language and 10 had mastered Greek the New Testament and Old Testament As that's referencing every man involved now This is important every man involved in the King James Bible translation believed in the verbal inspiration of the scriptures and Believed in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ In the final analysis the translators of the King James Bible believed that what they had spent nearly seven years of their lives Producing was an exact translation of the holy scriptures into the English tongue Okay, that's important That's important who they were what they believed what they used what they used for their translation So we're talking about you know using the Hebrew Maseratic texts for the Old Testament and for the New Testament They relied heavily on the textus receptors as it's known or the received text in Greek This is what these men used now the textus receptors is what I want to focus on this evening This was the work of desiderious Erasmus and it was published in 1516 so much it was already there. It was already published by this man Erasmus it was the Greek New Testament at that time now Erasmus He was Affiliated he was a Catholic priest people won't cut him up for that but look it is documented It is documented that as he studied the Bible. He became closer and closer to the Anabaptist theology Of the time it is documented that he was actually warned on occasions that he was moving dangerously close to the Anabaptist you know that you remember the Anabaptist the Anabaptist You know who that is It's these guys Who the Catholic Church was hunting down and killing? Because of largely their their refusal to move away from salvation by grace through faith and They would not add baptism to salvation. They would not add works to salvation So they were killed for it perhaps more than anything else. Let me read you a quote Erasmus began to advocate baptism by immersion after conversion some Catholic Though this was well-called an Anabaptist heresy by the Catholics and the Protestants don't forget It was simply Bible teaching the third edition of his Greek New Testament of 1522 different from the second only in its introductory notes there Erasmus advocated that Christian youth be taught biblical instruction first before they were baptized He even advocated rebaptism for those already sprinkled as infants Look this man not only did he move towards the Anabaptist or the Baptist theology or just what the Bible actually said he was Considered and still is considered by most to be the leading Bible scholar of that time. I Mean the man was incredibly smart So we have this Textus receptive that he produced that he published in 1516 that was used by the King James translators Okay, that's really what I'm not trying to get into the weeds. That's what was used for the New Testament It was the textus receptive Thousands of transcripts exist and 99% match the textus receptors even out even of transcripts to date Just think of the King James Bible in General folks you have thousands of transcripts that exist that match This New Testament you have a document written over 1500 years by 40 different human authors that did not that ranged from Kings to Fishermen to all sorts of other types of laymen and There's no contradictions so Why change it is the question Why change it the title of the sermon this evening if I had a title is motives and crimes Like before before there's a crime there has to be a motive, right? I mean before somebody commits a pre-meditated crime. They have a motive, right? I mean if I go out and I rob a bank I go out and I stick up a bank and I and I risk going to prison for my whole life I mean I must have had a motive that was pretty strong, right? I didn't just go do that like I'm bored. Let's go rob a bank today No, I had a motive. I was in debt Something was going on where I needed money so badly that I just I was gonna it was worth risking prison For ten years to go rob this bank. I mean every pre-meditated murder has a motive Every single pre-meditated crime has a motive, but you know why they'll say they changed it You know why they'll say, you know to get rid of the archaic language That you'll hear that's what you'll hear today That's what you'll hear from people that are publishing modern Bible version after modern Bible version You know, we're getting rid of the archaic language is what we're doing We're getting rid of the these and the vows because that's so hard to understand Let me just explain the these and the vows to you in about 10 seconds Okay, the these thou and thee I mean basically thou and thee and ye or replaced in modern Bible versions by one word, which is you But I could be saying look you need to get your act together I could be talking to everybody or I could be saying You need to get your act together almost fell off the the stage Right, but look, I mean You can obviously if I say you need to get your act together you all know that I'm talking to you If I go up to brother Matt and I say you need to get your act together You know I'm talking to him because I'm here you can see my body language You can see who I'm pointing at but what if I just wrote that down Could you really tell who I was talking to? No, you couldn't so the vows and the these those are singular That's somebody talking to a single person ye is talking or you is talking to a group of people Okay, so by replacing. I mean was that hard? Okay, maybe that was 27 seconds or whatever But basically it's plural and singular by using you you dumb it down You know you take away some meaning there now look There's there's many specific offenses that are way worse than this, but this is just an interesting point here is that You've introduced some rounding errors. That's what we would call as engineers. Who knows what pi is what's pi? What's the number of pi does anybody know? 3.14159 wrong It's 3.14 is what most people think But you know if you actually do a lot of math with 3.14 and you don't go to 3.14159 You'll end up with a building or a bridge that's several feet short Because once you do all the math and plug it into all the formulas you need those extra three digits Out to those To that accuracy in order to make sure that things work right look you've just introduced you've dumbed down the Bible And you've introduced some serious errors That's just one small thing So I'm just trying to point out that the whole we're trying to get rid of the arcade language is ridiculous It's ridiculous. You actually make the text Dumber by doing that you take away detail from the Bible. Okay, so now Enter turn the Ecclesiastes chapter one enter the mid to late 1800 so the King James Bible in its first edition was published in 1611 now there were several other editions Punctuation spelling changes things like that. We're not going to get into that. It says the same thing though Okay, it says the same thing the 1611 King James Bible lasted up until 1850s and here come these two guys and they say you know what we have a new methodology to Interpret the Greek New Testament and interpret the manuscripts of the Greek New Testament turn to Ecclesiastes chapter one So first of all and I think most of you that go to this church Probably know this But whenever somebody comes to you regarding the Bible, they're like brother. I found something new Brother, I was reading the Bible last night and I found something that nobody else has found Just red flag folks red flag. This is what happened in the 1800s Okay, the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 1 9 the thing that hath been and the thing that shall be and that that which is done Is that what shall be done and there is no new thing under the Sun? You know that every single heresy That you can come up with for the New Testament whether it's Gnosticism or all these different versions of you know our Minianism and you know all these Calvinistic things this all came from like right away. I Mean this stuff popped up right away There's no new thing under the Sun. So here come these guys. We got a new methodology. We have a new critical Text methodology way to come up with a new Greek new text But first of all, you know what the best-selling book in the history of the world is the Bible Okay, so, you know you know how you could probably make some money by printing a new Bible You know it sells that's another reason right there, but look West God and Hort Brooke West God and John he's got a couple names, but just West God and Hort you can look him up They came up with a new methodology to come up with a new Greek New Testament And they actually called it the New Testament in the original Greek and it was published in 1881 This New Testament is the basis for all these new Bible versions and it dethroned look it dethroned the Textus Receptus and To many academics today it has still dethroned the Textus Receptus that was used to produce the King James Bible They used the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus, you know to you know heavily use those two things those two Those two transcripts to make their Greek New Testament and these were these were thoroughly and quickly rejected by Erasmus You say you say why many people will say well Erasmus he he didn't have you know thousands and thousands of Of transcripts that he carried around with him everywhere But you know what he had he had a lifetime of studying the Bible and he quickly saw you know You can quickly see when you look at so if you are if you are studied in the Bible And you look at the Bible and you look at a new transcript of the Bible that someone says is the New Testament And it's just missing all these things That have like key doctrine like I don't know like the deity of Christ Missing from them. You're just like. Oh, yeah, this is garbage That's what he did It wasn't how many copies were available. It wasn't when it was written. It wasn't oh, this is from the first century It was what it said And that's why he rejected it These guys used it Okay, it was rejected by him there. They're called the fathers of the New Age Bibles Westcott and Hort. So who were they? Let's look at it. Let's look at who they were they found me and they founded this new way this new way I mean I mean that the King James Bible the King James Bible the Texas Receptus in Greek the foundation of the King James Bible in In English was you know, it was pretty much the only show in town. It was the only show in town for like 300 years So I guess God didn't preserve his word for 300 years And then these guys came along and they fixed that problem for God. Let's look at who they were Let's look at who they were because I think look I think their motives and their beliefs are important if we're gonna study this The first thing is this they were both they were both heavily involved in the occult It makes perfect sense to me once I get through all this it's gonna make perfect sense to you Who these guys are it's gonna make perfect sense They're heavily involved in the in the occult Westcott and Hort and Hort founded Several occult societies two of which were the Hermes Club and the ghostly guild Hort writes in a letter to his wife in 1864 about a party that they went to and they tried to do a seance and bring Bring spirits from the dead These are the guys that produced the the the New Testament in Greek that dethroned The text is receptive receptive. Are you kidding me? He speaks Hort speaks as late as 1880 About the quote fellowship with the spiritual world and the dominion which the dead have over us in his own words Here's Westcott Quoting on the infallibility and these are all letters that these guys wrote These are all written penned You know words from these men Westcott on the infallibility of scripture. I reject the word infallibility of holy scripture overwhelming Of course, I feel difficulties which at present I cannot solve in which I never hope to solve This we believe that this book is Infallible that it's pure that it's perfect that it contains no errors And here's the thing and I've said this many times I'll say it again if there's one error here Can I trust any of it if I find an error in this book? How do I know that there's not another one? If there's a if there's a when I say an error if there's part of this book that says something that Contradicts another part of this book I've got a problem So these guys it's ironic They didn't believe in the infallibility of scripture as they corrupted scripture. I mean define irony What doctrines do they attack the deity of Christ? I mean, it's almost like first of all I mean we ran into some of this cult stuff today. I mean, it's almost like I mean, what do they go after first every single time the deity of Christ the deity of Christ the deity of Christ The Mormons the Jehovah's Witnesses. I mean, are you kidding me? It's always the deity of Christ. I mean talk about nothing new under the Sun They were attacking the deity of Christ before Christ was even crucified. I Mean, are we surprised? Should we be surprised? Here's here's a here's Westcott on the deity of Christ He never speaks of himself directly as God. I mean, I can't tell you how many times I've heard this from stupid people that have never read the Bible before But the aim of his revelation was to lead men to see God and him Yeah, this guy needs a hoodie in a bar stool is what this guy needs. This is liberal church USA right here John no, this is him again John meaning the gospel of John. I Mean, if you're gonna prove the deity of Christ to somebody where are you gonna go? the John one One Like the first verse in John John does not expressly affirm the identification of the word with Jesus Christ Just forget it man. You know, I mean what in the world turned to John one one. How about John 10 30? I And my father are one. I mean is that hard to understand? I mean people freaked out when Jesus said that you know why because you know what Jesus was saying. I am God I Say a nine six the mighty God. I mean one in the world. I Mean these guys don't even know what the Bible says or they reject what the Bible says. I think it's that one and They're and they're translating. They're giving us a New Testament. Oh, I can't wait John one one John John does not expressly affirm the identification of the word with Jesus Christ Okay, let's study this one out. Put your thinking hats on So he's saying that John does not connect but follow me here, okay? the word Jesus okay, he's saying John does not connect these two together All right, look at your King James Bible John one one Let me turn there hang on John one one in the beginning was the word. There's the word and the word was with God and the word Was God Okay, so we know that the word is God Right the word the word equals God now go to John 114 John 114 and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us There it is. Jesus equals the word equals God. It's all right there But John does not expressly affirm the identity. I mean what you know, this is on purpose This is what I'm trying to get you to understand. These are not stupid men And this is on purpose It gets better. I mean you think just wait There's more Turn to Revelation chapter 3 Turn to Revelation chapter 3 From Hort quote Revelation 3 15 might no doubt bear the Arian meeting the first thing created What he's saying there is the Arian meeting meaning Jesus. He's denying the deity of Christ He's saying that Jesus Christ was created that Jesus Christ was a created being This this this was first this was before Jesus was even crucified This is not original Turn to Revelation 3 15 in your King James Bible Revelation 3 let's start in verse 14 Revelation 3 14 and unto the angel of the church of the laodiceans Laodiceans right these things sayeth the amen the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation of God I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would be work cold or hot He says the beginning of the creation of God. He's translating that to mean that Jesus Christ was the first thing created. I Mean he's missing a fundamental Doctrine of the faith here and that is Jesus wasn't the first thing created Jesus was the Creator It was by Jesus by look and you need John for this so the fact that he missed John completely is just this heresy taken even further because the word was created or the world the earth Everything was created by the word Jesus is the literal creation turn back to John one Turn back to John one you say what do you mean? Jesus created the world. That's what I mean You say but God spoke it into existence exactly The word became flesh Jesus is the word he became flesh Jesus created the world John 1 3 went down to your Bible all things were made by him and Without him was not anything made that was made Jesus made everything Jesus made everything turned to Colossians chapter 1 Colossians chapter 1 Colossians chapter 1 look at verse number 16 Colossians chapter 1 in verse number 16 The Bible says this it says for by him all things Created that are in heaven and that are in the earth visible and invisible whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or power All things were created by him and for him and he is before all things and by him all things consist Turn to Psalm 90 Look, it's the Jehovah's Witnesses that teach that Jesus you know was created He was Michael the Archangel and all this stuff It's the Mormons that believe that Jesus had a beginning the Muslims teach that Jesus was a human Prophet look these are the cults and I mean the satanic Religions that teach that Jesus was created and that's what these guys thought They're giving us a Bible look at Psalm 90 Look at Psalm 90 Psalm 90 look at verse number two the Bible says before the mountains were brought forth or thou or ever thou hetst formed the earth and the World formed meaning created made if you form like something out of clay That's you actually making that you formed it Even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God Jesus is from everlasting to everlasting and he's the creator of the world. He was not created But here's Psalm 90 in the NIV you say what does it matter? Here's Psalm 90 in the NIV now look at how look at how subtle This is look at how subtle. This is Psalm 90 in the NIV says this it says before the mountains were born Or you brought forth the whole world from everlasting to everlasting you are God So instead of you know hetst formed the earth and the world is just oh you brought forth the world They just dumb it down. They just I mean it's subtle But they dumb it down and they turn this in oh you it could just be God not the Creator Jesus Christ you see It's amazing how you can look at their beliefs You can look at their beliefs or more accurately their unbelief and You can see how they change the Bible. There's the motive There's the motive and we see the crime we see the crime today with all these these Bible verses Turn to John chapter 10. What do they believe about salvation? What do they believe about salvation eternal security? Look at John chapter 10 and look down at verse number 29 This one's so I mean it's so misunderstood. I mean the thought Quote this is from Westcott the thought of John 10 29 is here traced back to its most absolute form as Resting on the essential power of God in his relation of universal fatherhood Now here's a footnote. Here's here's what you say. I don't even know what that means. Here's what it leads to here's a footnote in the NIV Okay, are you looking down at John 10 29 where your King James Bible says this my father which gave them me is Greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand a Footnote in the NIV says this what my father has given me is greater than all What in the world? Like like who was given something in that in this case was Jesus was given something no no no we were given Jesus We were given Jesus and Jesus wasn't My father has given me what my father has given me is greater than all that doesn't even make any sense given Jesus He was Jesus was given something who was given something we were given something John 10 28 through John 10 30 is talking about our eternal security How nothing can make us unsaved how we are kept our salvation is kept by God and not us And they I mean it's talking about keeping you eternally not about giving Jesus something Look Jesus didn't come here to be given anything Jesus came here to do the giving Here's a here's another good one. This is from Hort From Hort I confess I have no repugnance to the primitive doctrine of Aransum paid to Satan Turn to Matthew 20 28 I Can see no other possible form in which the doctrine of Aransum is at all tenable Anything is better than the doctrine of Aransum to the father What in the world? He's talking about the ransom that Jesus paid was paid to Satan. That's what he just said look these guys are Satanists These guys are literal devil worshipers. Is it fitting together for you? They're working directly for him look at Matthew 20 verse 28 Even as the son of man Jesus came not to be ministered unto he didn't come to be given anything He came he didn't come to be given anything But to minister he came to do the giving what I just said and to give his life a ransom for many Look he paid the debt you owe to God not Satan You owe a you owe a debt turn. I mean I know we don't have to go through this go to John 3 This is one of my favorite favorite verses go to John chapter 3 Go to I mean look if you don't get this About the Christian faith on who on what you are being saved from this is why we go through these verses John chapter 3 look at verse 36 This is one of my favorite verses in the entire Bible right here Because it is so clear of a picture to show people of what salvation is and what you must Do what you must believe to be saved he that believeth on the son hath Everlasting life and he that believeth not the son shall not see life, but the wrath of Satan abideth on him No, the ransom is not paid to Satan the wrath of God Abideth on him before you're saved. Look if you're not saved the wrath of God is on you The wrath of God is on you brother Ryan told somebody this in a very nice loving way today And look sometimes you may have to tell people this in the nicest possible way as you're pleading for their souls Because look these people that were out there and we're talking to the wrath of God is on them And the ransom was it was paid to God my friends I mean the the ransom paid to Satan. This is what these guys believed. How about hell? Do you think I believed in hell? I mean do I even have to keep going at this point hell Here's Westcott hell is not the place of punishment of the guilty It is the common abode of departed spirits now this rate here There's a lot of there's a lot of Bibles out there new Bibles Shocking there's a lot of new Bibles out there that have this weird doctrine of hell That everybody goes to hell and there's Hades and there's paradise. We all go to hell Okay, but hell has like it's like a hotel right hell's a hotel and there's like a part of hell That's not just just stay with me. Okay. There's a good part of the hotel That's not as bad as the bad part of the hotel one's called Hades and you know This is what Luke 16 teaches right and they'll say that the King James Bible has that wrong because it says the rich man You know he went to hell And immediately he opened his eyes and he was in hell And you know but Lazarus was in the good part of the hotel and then you know The rich man was in the bad part of the hotel, but we all go to hell I mean look there's a lot of stupid doctrine and like a lot of crazy doctrine that a lot of Dispensationalists especially believe as far as this goes Okay, so it's not just something to be like how could you believe that look the King James Bible teaches hell And hell is a place of eternal torment and at the wrath of God is abiding on you and you die You're going there and you're never getting out. That's what the but it's not confusing. It's terrible But it's not confusing Here's another one From Hort. We have no we have no sure knowledge of future punishment. I Mean and the word eternal has a fire far, okay Let me we have no sure knowledge of future punishment and the word eternal has a far higher meaning Okay, when people start doing this to you by the way when people who are really smart start doing this stuff to you Like they take normal simple words like eternal How many times have you been out soul winning? First of all, do we talk to really smart people out soul winning? Sure, we do right do we talk to some simpler people that aren't very smart out soul winning sure We talked to the whole range of people out there. How many people have you ever met out there that don't understand the word eternal? Like nobody how about everlasting How about everlasting? I mean these are complicated words, right? How long is eternal? That is a higher meaning. I've never heard that I've never heard that I've given the gospel to I don't know I don't even I'm not even gonna say a number So I don't you know try to like out spiritualize everybody. Okay, but here's the thing I've never heard anyone say they don't understand these words But no no no no it has a no you see you don't understand There's a far higher meaning Just gotta you gotta you gotta recognize people like like you know, I've worked with a lot of people like this You know, they couldn't they couldn't build a lawnmower They couldn't build a Lego Stack that's like over 12 inches tall But they're really smart and they're just like oh well the thing the BTU's of the thermal dynamics of their Q factor of this They don't even know what they're talking about Okay, it's a it's a it's a it's a methodology of trickery Okay on creation Here's Westcott have you read Darwin? This is his words. Have you read Darwin who was just right around this time by the way How should I how should I like to talk with you about it in spite of difficult difficulties? I'm inclined to think it is unanswerable in any case. It is a treat to read such a book He writes again, but the book which is the most engaged me is Darwin Whenever it may be thought of it It is a book that one is proud to be a contemporary with my feeling is so strong that the theory is Unanswerable the theory of evolution If so it opens up a new period. Could you please write me a Bible, please? You know can someone hire these two guys to write us a Bible? Here's Westcott No one this is a good one. It's long, but it's worth it. So just stick with me here Okay, Westcott states no one now. I suppose this is the late 1800s Okay, this isn't like 1992. All right, think about this think about the the corruption that's going on here No one now I suppose holds that the first three chapters of Genesis for example give a literal history. I don't know I do I Don't know I I'm just you know I'm pretty educated and I hold that the first three chapters of Genesis are a literal history of the world I Reject the fact that this world is billions of years old. I reject it I've looked into all of it all the dating all this stuff It's all flawed and the Bible has never been shown to be untrue As a matter of fact every single thing that they find and every single thing that they will find will just prove the Bible again And again and again This world is a little bit over 6,000 years old and that's the truth of it now No one I suppose holds that the first three chapters of Genesis for example give a literal history I could never understand how anyone reading them with open eyes could think they did Yet they disclose to us a gospel So it is probably elsewhere Are we not going through a trial in regard to the use of popular language on literary subjects like that through which we Want not without sad losses in regard to the use of popular language on physical subjects You see what these guys are doing They're using the language that they're using to make this New Testament to to feed their philosophies is what they're doing He's he's admitting it here. He's admitting it here If you feel now that it was to speak humanly necessary that the Lord should speak of the Sun rising It was no less necessary that we'd use the names of Moses and David as his contemporaries use them You see what he's saying now Now he takes it beyond the first three chapters of Genesis and says he's like there was no critical question at issue poetry Is I think a thousand times more true than history? He's saying even the stories of Moses and David are just simple poetry and As a matter of fact, he also said David is not a chronological but a spiritual person but These guys were heretics that were experts in Greek Is what was going on here and these men are the source of these modern English translations and This and this critical text methodology that has given us all these Bible versions that we have today Look the motive is clear and we can clearly see the crimes in all these Bible versions So to wrap things up. I'm going on too long here, but did God preserve his word? Did God preserve his word to be King James only you do not have to be a Bible or language Scholar Okay, you don't have to go out and learn Greek You don't have to go out and study all these things. You just have to believe that God can preserve his word I'm gonna explain it to you to believe the modern versions You have to believe this that God did not preserve his word for 300 years and that the King James You know because the King James Bible was the only book in town You have to believe that God just let his word just be and Then he miraculously started preserving it again when Westcott and Hort came along Using any and he did it using a couple of Satan worshipers. This is what you have to believe To not be King James only you can clearly see the agenda on these men's beliefs and you can see the agenda in their Translations, I just showed you just the tip of the iceberg Look Westcott and Hort, you've all seen it. You know that the new Bible versions. What do they attack? What do they attack? They attack salvation by grace their faith. What do they attack? They attack the deity of Christ What do they attack? They attack these major Tenants of the faith Westcott and Hort changed the Bible They omitted dozens and dozens of partial verses and dozens of complete Verses and over a dozen complete verses look turn to Revelation chapter 22 just the fact that they did this Just we read this to somebody today, too We read this to somebody today, too We read this to somebody to show them that the Jehovah's Witnesses when they're using their version of the Bible where they have just completely perverted the gospel Jesus Everything we use this verse look all I have to do with Westcott and Hort is this turn to revelation 22 and look at verse Number 18 the Bible says for I testify this though. These are the last verses in the Bible This is the last thing that God had to say like God has wrapped up the entire Bible like his Complete word to us that is eternal from eternity to eternity in both directions This is the last thing that he has to say to us right here for I testify under every man That here at the words of the prophecy of this book if any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away as part out of the book of life and out of the holy city from the things which are written in this book He would testify at these things say as surely I come quickly amen Even so come Lord Jesus the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all amen Interesting that he just you know throws it in that grace thing right at the end, too If any man takes away any look these guys are burning in hell Because they change God's word Just for that thing alone So let me just give you two parting thoughts here. We see the motive in the crime We see their beliefs and we see what they did you look I mean we see that Westcott and Hort They denied the fundamentals of our faith They denied it. There's their motive and we can put the King James Version of the Bible next to their translations and you can clear look there's some there's some people that have already done this They put King James version verses right next to modern Bible version verses and you can see the clear attacks on the doctrines You can see the omissions the changes and those omissions and changes they match Their doctrines of unbelief. I mean it's a great. It's a cool thing to see you can just see the motive in the crime right there And that's I mean that's the purpose of this the sermon this evening on the other hand the King James Bible You say oh people say oh King James. He was a wicked King. God used wicked Kings all the time I Mean God used wicked Kings to accomplish his tasks all the time and look Erasmus, you know people will always a Catholic and look but from the things I've read he began to match pretty close to Anabaptist or the Baptist theology as he read the Bible You know what that you know what that shows me you know what that shows me about this man aside from all his His scholarly reputation and how smart he was and how well he knew the language But his willingness in his own words to change his beliefs as he studied the Bible shows me where his heart was You'll see the same thing from Christians You'll see the same thing from Christians Christians that are willing to just change What cuz just as you get saved does that mean you know everything in here like bam you're saved that was simple Do you know everything in the Bible? No, but as you learn the Bible as you're willing to change your life You know what that shows your brothers and sisters and shows that your heart is right and Erasmus what his heart was right? He was willing to change as he studied the word of God. So look here's it. Here's the last thing. I want to tell you the King James version Versus the modern versions if it wasn't God inspired If it wasn't God inspired where are the errors? Where are the errors? Like I said 40 different authors over 1500 years no contradictions You know there is there's more of the transcripts that have ever been found. They match closer to the textist receptors than any other version of the Greek To the tune of 99 percent Look maybe these guys were geniuses these guys that maybe these 40 different guys were geniuses You know what there's a guy. There's a reason God used fishermen. You know that God used fishermen for the same reason that he only gave Gideon 300 men you follow what I'm saying He only gave Gideon 300 men because he said no no no no no no you're gonna win this battle and you're gonna know that I did it That's why you're not getting 10,000 men. You're getting 300 God use fishermen God use laymen God use sinners Because he wanted us to know that it was him Speaking and that is him preserving it and he wanted to know that it was his words not their words and That's why it all matches Over a thousand years or more It's him doing the preserving The new versions I mean there's contradictions everywhere. I mean it's crazy It's why it's why Erasmus rejected the Vaticanus and the Sinai Atticus almost immediately He's just like oh, yeah, this is garbage Because he knew the Bible Because he knew the Bible It wasn't it wasn't when they were written that doesn't matter when they were written or how many copies existed It's what they say It's what they omitted It's that they changed the word of God and you recognize that It was the doctrine That's why he rejected it. That's what matters the doctrine He had been studying the Bible his whole life and he recognized the errors As a matter of fact most clean I mean these new versions Most cliche contradictions that people will bring up like atheists and people that don't believe the Bible Most contradictions people did you know? I mean people that will that have never read the Bible That will talk like their Bible experts and will come up to you and they would just like they would just like throw out like What are some of these things like the Bible like the Bible condones slavery? Did you know the Bible condones slavery? You know they're reading some stupid modern version that does condone slavery I mean I preach the whole sermon on on the difference between biblical servitude and you know Western world slavery men Steelers in the King James Bible Executed the do you know did you know that the Bible condones rape? Well the NIV does No, I'm serious. It does It says that if a man rape a woman then he has to marry her what in the world? In the King James, I mean what in the world who would ever want to be a Christian? You believe the Bible that condones rape The NIV does it literally says that You have to pay your father and marry her well that's good The King James says what happens to the guy? Oh, yeah, he gets executed you rape a woman you get executed I mean that's pretty close though right I mean Turn to 1st Samuel 13 Look these are where the next sermons on the King James stuff will come I'll just throw some of these things up there and we'll just go through it and we'll have a good laugh But what people use these new versions to actually attack the word of God? It's like don't I mean most most Bible contradiction, you know conversations I would say like probably 80 percent maybe 90 percent of them. You can just say oh you have the wrong Bible Conversation over Look, I've looked into all these contradictions. Okay. I don't want to say all them because there might be some that I haven't heard of but the vast majority of Bible contradictions are either people are using the wrong Bible or people don't understand the depth of the Bible Those are the two things right there. Look at Look at first Samuel chapter 13 a very controversial verse in the English standard version I'm gonna read it for you. I Mean there. This is very controversial people use this to disprove the stupidity or to prove the stupidity of the Bible I can't tell you how many times I've heard this in the ESV. You don't have one in front of you I'll read it for you. Saul lived for one year and then became king Anyway, it rained for two years over Israel. So Saul chose 3,000 men of Israel Saul was one year old baby when he became king and you believe that Saul was a baby when he became king Give me an army Where's my passi? He can't even he probably can't even talk when your kids start talking. I haven't had the little kids for a while Maybe he was really smart. Where's my passi? Give me an army King James Bible you have the wrong Bible. That's your problem Saul rained one year and when he had rained two years over Israel Saul chose him 3,000 men of Israel. Oh Oh Yeah, I thought he was a baby It's crazy Here's the thing here's the thing when I'm trying to get at Satan didn't do a perfect job of translating the Bible God preserved his words. Okay. God's words are pure that Garbage is not and it's easy to see because you know most of the Old Testament stuff Look the New Testament stuff's pretty heavy doctrine twisting and I mean there's some of that in the Old Testament too But there's a lot of stuff in the Old Testament of the New Verses. It's just dumb It's just a clear mistake Like it just clearly they just didn't know what they were talking about or didn't know what they're doing or whatever Or they were just lazy. I mean Saul lived for one year and then became king Okay But look Satan didn't do a perfect job of translating the Bible That's God's job to preserve his word and Satan didn't do a good job But he made mistakes doing so what this isn't anything new either. This isn't anything new go to Genesis chapter 3 Go to Genesis chapter 3 This isn't anything new either You know, there's nothing new under the Sun with these with this Westcott and Hort It's just it's almost like, you know, just it's tiring It's tiring. It's the same thing again and again, you know who did it first Satan himself Verse 24, I'm sorry verse number one of Genesis 3 1 now the certain of it was more subtle That means he was sneaky that means he didn't just come out and say stuff He didn't just say hey God said this but do this. I want you to do this so I can get you in trouble No, here's what he said he said he was more subtle than any beast of the field Which the Lord had made and he said to the woman yay half God said You shall not any eat any tree of the garden. Yeah, that's what God said first of all, but he's trying to cast doubt on The word of God right here. He's trying to cast doubt on God's word You know, he's trying to do he's trying to cast doubt on Jesus You know what he's trying to do with these modern versions of the Bible. He's trying to cast doubt on Jesus Christ That's what he's trying to do That's I mean, there's nothing new The King James Bible is proof of the King James Bible I'll tell you the analogy again if I find you say how is that that's circular logic? But here's the thing if I find a machine if I find a machine in the woods and the machine Can can produce energy like nothing I've ever seen before and I and I go and I take the machine to engineers and scientists And they look at the machine and they say this machine is Defying the laws of physics. This machine is a miracle. Why because it works We know it's working because it's working. We can measure it. We can test it. We can look at it We can try it We can try the words of this book. We can read them with the Holy Spirit within us We can try it. We can look for content. There is none There is none and you look at the machine and then we look at the back of the machine And it says invented by you know, Bob Jones in 1892, you know, we're probably gonna believe that Because of the fact that the machine itself works The machine is proof of the inventor is what I'm getting at the King James Bible and the miracle that it is is Proof that God preserved it. Does that make sense? What's power heads and have a word of prayer?