- All right, everybody.
Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
Glad you could all make it here this Sunday morning.
You'll go ahead and take out your hymnal.
We'll start off in 247, saved, saved.
Should find a red hymnal there right under your seat.
Song 247, 247, saved, saved.
Sing it all together on the verse.
Heavenly Father, we just thank you.
We come here to be assembled in your house with your people.
I pray you'd speak to us through the message.
You teach us from your word.
We could all be edified and grow, be strengthened.
Please fill Brother Dylan with your Holy Spirit
as he preaches to us and bless the singing right now.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Next song is gonna be 319,
Just a Closer Walk With Thee.
Song number 319, sing it all together.
♪ Just keep me from all this fighting ♪
♪ Just a closer walk with thee, my plea ♪
This time we'll go through an announcement.
If you need a bulletin, raise up your hand.
Gonna do the announcements for us this morning.
How's it going, everyone?
Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
It's Sunday, February 13th, 2022,
as you heard Brother Duncan say there.
If you need a bulletin, just go ahead and raise your hand,
and one of the ushers will be glad to get one to you.
You'll see there on the front,
we're currently going through John chapter one,
and we're in verse 13 right now,
which we're born not of blood, nor the will of the flesh,
nor the will of man, but of God.
And you have a long time to memorize this.
It's a long chapter until like the year 2030 or something.
So just make sure that you get that done.
On the inside there, we have our soulening and service times.
And I wanted to plug the Spanish service real quickly.
If you're a Spanish speaker and you know people who are as well,
invite them to that service.
Let's show them some love and some support.
That Spanish service is at 4.30 PM on Sundays.
And of course we have a 5.30 PM service today.
Pastor Shelley's out of town.
He went to preach at Shur Foundation Baptist Church.
And so we have a couple of guys stepping up this morning.
Brother Dylan Oz will be preaching.
And you don't know who that is.
Maybe it's your first time here.
Brother Dylan is an employee of the church.
And he won't say this about himself, but I'll tell you.
I think he's a talented preacher.
So let's make sure that we pay attention
to what the Lord has laid on his heart
as he makes his highly anticipated return.
He didn't want me to say that, so I
just said it to mess with him.
Also this afternoon, we have another talented preacher
stepping up to the plate.
Brother Duncan Urbanik will be preaching at the 5.30 PM
service.
So let's show him some support by showing up and paying
close attention to what they've prepared for us.
We have soul winning today at 2, by the way.
That's today's soul winning time.
And I'll be filling in there if you want to come out,
and we'll get some people saved.
We have regional soul winning as well.
There you have your leaders.
And if you look at the stats, we've
got our salvation numbers, we've got our baptisms as well.
On the right side of the bulletin,
you'll notice our expecting ladies--
Cassandra Souther, Lauren Milstead, Tina Galasso,
Stephanie Spurgeon, Natalie Urbanik, Alisha Naeem--
I know who that is--
Michelle Brooks, Amber Tinsley, Sierra Illy,
and Natasha Zermeno.
So make sure you pray for those ladies
as I just pull up some information I wanted
to make sure I got to on my phone.
We have the prayer list.
We go over that on Wednesdays.
On the back of the bulletin, you'll notice--
or upcoming events.
February 26, we have the Waco Texas Soul Winning Marathon.
And I have some information about this.
First of all, make sure you sign up for this event.
There's a sign-up sheet, which is filling up
fast over on that side of the room
where all the free stuff is.
And so yeah, just sign up so that the church can
account for you and have an understanding of how many people
are going to show up so they can prepare accordingly.
But if you're going to go in the church van--
the church is providing transportation for this event.
And if you want to go in the church van,
it does leave on February the 26th, the date of this marathon,
7 15 AM is when the van will be leaving, 7 15 AM.
So if you want to go in the van, you've
got to get here bright and early and make sure
that you show up for that.
The van is probably just going to go at the scheduled time,
so don't be late.
March 24th through the 26th, we have a soul-winning seminar
coming up.
This will be really good.
I think no matter what your soul-winning experience is,
even if you're someone who is a seasoned soul-winner,
if you've been going for a number of years,
you're going to be able to learn new things from this.
But also, if you're brand new to soul-winning,
if you've never done it, if you've never knocked doors
and given somebody the gospel, this
will be a great way to get started.
So I would encourage you to come with some notes
and ready to take some notes, I should say,
and learn some things.
And like I said, no matter where you are in terms of skill
level, it's going to be, I think, very useful for you.
On April 2nd, we have a Pure Words Baptist Church event,
College Station Soul-Winning Marathon.
On April the 29th, a homeschool field trip.
So that's going to be fun.
On May 21st, Austin, Texas, is going to be the host of a Soul-Winning Marathon,
as we'll be going to Austin, hopefully to make it a little more normal.
Because if you know anything about Austin, there's people there who are very, very weird.
We've got space for some notes on the back of this.
You want to take some notes for the sermon this morning.
But that's pretty much all I had for the announcements.
So we'll throw it back over to Brother Duncan, who's going to lead us in another song.
So think back at your hymnal, we're seeing 261.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus, and that's 261.
Together.
O soul are you right in the to-see, There's light in the past and we sound to tell the
day of his glory.
The offering plates are going around, please turn in your Bibles to Psalm 119, Psalm chapter
number 119 verse 89.
Psalm 119 verse 89, we'll be reading verses 89 to 96.
Psalm 119 verses 89 to 96, Bible reads in Psalm chapter 119 verse 89, "Forever, O Lord,
thy word is settled in heaven.
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations, thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
They continue this day according to thine ordinances, for all are thy servants.
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
I will never forget thy precepts, for with them thou hast quickened me.
I am thine, save me, for I have sought thy precepts.
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me, but I will consider thy testimonies.
I have seen an end of all perfection, but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you for the morning service here at Steadfast Baptist Church.
I pray that you would just fill Brother Dylan with your spirit now and enable him to thunder
forth your word, and just give him clarity of mind, Lord, as he preaches to us, and
also help us to pay attention to what you've laid on his heart.
And in Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Amen.
All right, well thank you all for being here this morning, and thank you, Pastor Shelley,
for giving me the opportunity to fill the pulpit and preach for the church here.
Really appreciate it.
And a good thing for Brother Ben, he didn't have to read all of Psalm 119 this morning,
but I think we should do that sometime, because honestly it's one of the greatest chapters
in the whole Bible.
And why is that?
Well, it's because it's about the Word of God.
That's why.
And that's what I want to preach on this morning is the Word of God.
The title of my sermon is "Original Manuscript Onlyism Exposed."
Original Manuscript Onlyism Exposed.
You know, we're a King James-only church, meaning we believe that the King James Bible
is inspired, preserved, perfect.
It's the only acceptable Bible to use in the English language, and we believe that
it's 100% the Word of God without error.
This is what this church believes in and what this church uses.
But there's a lot of other people that believe differently on that.
And I would call these people "omos."
I got that phrase from Pastor Jones, he calls these people "omos," original, manuscript-onlyists.
They don't believe, they don't point to a single Bible as the perfect Word of God.
They say that the Word of God is perfect, it's inspired, it's without error in the
original manuscripts.
But if you were to ask these people, "Well, where is the perfect Word of God in English
today?"
They wouldn't be able to point you to a Bible.
They say that it's only inspired and perfect in the original manuscripts, and they believe
that throughout time there's been things lost in translation, or that the Word of God has
just been lost in general, that it's been buried in the earth, that certain parts have
just been destroyed, and that today we don't have the perfect Word of God, but I'm here
this morning to expose that that is a false idea, that is a false narrative, and that
rather the Word of God does exist today, and it's perfect, preserved, and found in the
King James Bible.
But just so you understand that I'm not just coming up with some sort of straw man just
saying, "Oh, there's people that believe this," I want to read for you a couple doctrinal
statements of people that are almost original manuscript-onlyists that believe this idea.
The first one is John MacArthur.
Now John MacArthur is a very famous, well-known person throughout Christianity, and in fact
he has been for decades and decades.
Back even when Jack Hiles was alive, he was preaching against this guy, and he's still
around today.
He's still around preaching horrible false doctrine.
But this is what his doctrinal statement says, his church is Grace Community Church in Sun
Valley, California.
This is what it says.
"We teach that the Bible is God's written revelation to man, and thus the sixty-six
books of the Bible given to us by the Holy Spirit constitute the plenary, inspired equally
in all parts, Word of God.
We teach that the Word of God is an objective propositional revelation, verbally inspired
in every word, absolutely inerrant."
So it sounds great so far, right?
Then he says this, "Absolutely inerrant in the original documents, infallible in God
breathe." You know, we believe that the Word of God is perfect, that it's objective, that
it's inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Well, that's what we used to have in the original document, but today we don't have
that anymore.
Today we don't have the perfect inspired Word of God.
That's what John MacArthur would tell you.
Here's another church.
This is a church in Dallas, Texas.
It's called Watermark Church, and they have 11,000 weekly congregants.
There's no small church.
This is what they believe.
Because we believe the Bible to be the verbally inspired Word of God without error in the
original writings and the supreme and final authority in doctrine and practice.
Okay, so at Watermark Church in Dallas, Texas, their supreme authority in everything, in
doctrine and practice, is the original manuscripts.
So I hope the pastor every morning is getting Paul's handwritten Epistle to the Romans
and reading that, and that's his final authority, the original manuscripts.
What a stupid idea.
This is not, how do you practically apply, "Oh, we believe the Bible just in the original
manuscripts."
You can't do anything with that truth because it's not true.
First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, Pastor Robert Jeffress, 14,000 members at this church.
This is what their doctrinal statement says about the Word of God, "The Holy Bible was
written by men, divinely inspired, and is the record of God's revelation of himself
to man.
It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction.
It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error
for its matter."
Sounds great so far.
"Therefore all scripture is totally true and trustworthy.
It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is and will remain to the
end of the world the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all
human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried.
All scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is himself the focus of divine revelation."
Wow, that sounds really good, right?
Real flowery.
It's like really elevating the Word of God.
But then they have this new paragraph under this.
It says that this paragraph was added, supplemented August of 2003.
So before 2003, that's all their doctrinal statement said.
They added something in 2003.
It says this, "It is inerrant and infallible in its original manuscript, which is to be
taken as verbally inspired."
So all those things that they were saying about the Word of God, well, it only applies
to the original written manuscript, is what Robert Jeffress and First Baptist Church of
Dallas, Texas would say.
There's another church in Texas, in Dallas, Texas, the Potter's House, P. D. Jakes, even
bigger church, 30,000 members.
This is what they say, "The Bible, the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, are the inspired
Word of God without error in the original writings, and are the complete revelation
of His will for the salvation of men and the divine and final authority for all Christian
faith and life."
So look, this original manuscript-only-ism idea is not just some small idea in Christianity.
A lot of people believe this, a lot of really big churches teach that today we don't have
the perfect inspired Word of God, but rather it only existed in the original manuscripts,
and so today we kind of just have the gist of God's Word.
I can't really point you to a Bible and say, "This is perfect, this is inspired, this is
the Word of God without error," but rather they all just kind of give the gist of the
Word of God, is what they would say.
Here's a church I really like.
Let me read for you the doctrinal statement of Verity Baptist Church by Pastor Roger Jimenez
in Sacramento, California.
This is what they say, "We believe that the King James Version of the Bible is the inspired
and preserved Word of God for English-speaking people.
We reject all modern Bible translations."
Hey, now that's something I could actually do something with.
I could say, "Oh, the King James Bible is the Word of God.
Okay, well, I'm going to go to the store and buy a King James Bible, and now I know
I have the perfect, inspired Word of God."
Not just like, "Where do I get these original manuscripts so I can find out what God actually
told me?"
Here's our doctrinal statement at Said Fast Baptist Church, "The King James Bible is
the preserved Word of God in English, without any error, and is Word-perfect."
That's what we believe.
We believe differently than a lot of churches about the Word of God.
And people will try to make us feel stupid.
People will try to act like we have an illogical argument for believing that the Word of God
in English is the King James Bible, but we're gonna show today from the Word of God that
this is not true.
So first, I wanna talk about why original manuscript-onlyism is wrong, and then I wanna
talk about why it's dangerous.
So number one, why is it wrong?
Well, first of all, because the true original manuscript of the Word of God is actually
in heaven.
The true original manuscript of God is actually in heaven.
You're there in Psalm 119.
Look at verse 89.
It says this, "Forever, O Lord, thy Word is settled in heaven."
Before the earth was even created, before human beings existed, the Word of God existed
eternally in heaven.
God declares the beginning to the end, He's the Alpha and the Omega, He knows what's going
to happen before it happens, He exists outside of time, and the Word of God has always existed
in heaven.
So the Ten Commandments written in stone, Paul's letter to the Romans, those were not
the original manuscripts.
The original manuscripts truly are in heaven, and it's an improper perspective on the Word
of God to point at some document that men's hands physically wrote and say that that's
the first manuscript.
It's not correct.
The first manuscript is in heaven, it eternally existed.
Now, why is this?
Go to John chapter number one.
This is the chapter that we're memorizing right now.
John chapter number one says this, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God."
Let's skip down to verse 14, "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we
beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and
truth."
I understand this passage, it's teaching that Jesus Christ is the Word of God.
And so Jesus Christ was not a created being, he was not created, he did not have a date
in which Jesus Christ came into existence, no, rather he's eternally existed.
And guess what?
The Word of God also has eternally existed.
So when you approach your philosophy about the Word of God, you can't approach this
book like any other book, because this book did not have a start date.
This book does not have an end date, it has eternally existed in heaven.
So the original manuscripts were not truly the original manuscripts, because the Word
of God is Jesus Christ and He's existed forever.
So don't tell me, "Oh, it's only preserved in the original manuscripts."
Well, I'm sorry, I thought Jesus Christ still lives today, and He's the Word of God.
So it is eternally existed and lives today.
First Peter chapter number one, turn over there to First Peter chapter number one, and
we're going to get more on this.
First Peter one, verse number 18, the Bible says, "For as much as you know that you were
not redeemed with corruptible things."
What's something that's corruptible?
Something that's corruptible is something that can expire, something that could tarnish,
something that can decay.
And the Bible's saying you weren't redeemed by something that can tarnish, decay, or expire
like as silver and gold.
Silver and gold, the Bible says, is something that's corruptible.
But look at what it says, "From your vain conversation received by tradition from your
Father."
It's saying, you weren't redeemed by something that's just expirable like man's tradition.
You weren't saved by man's ideas.
Man didn't just come up with the Word of God out of his own heart, out of his own mind,
and you weren't just saved by man's corruptible ideas.
But rather, verse 19, it says, "But with the precious blood of Christ," that's something
that's incorruptible, right, "as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, who verily
was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times
for you."
Like we just read, Jesus Christ is the Word of God, and that Word has eternally existed.
Well, Jesus Christ was foreordained before the world even was created to be our Savior,
to be born of the Virgin Mary, to live a perfect life, to die on the cross, and to be risen
again from the dead.
The Bible says that that was foreordained before the world even began.
But He was manifest in these last times for us, verse 21, "who by Him, by Jesus Christ,
do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory, that your faith
and hope might be in God."
See, we couldn't be redeemed by something corruptible because then our hope would be
in that corruptible thing.
Our hope has to be in something that's incorruptible, something that's perfect, something that's
eternal.
Why?
So that our hope can actually rest in God, because He's incorruptible, He's eternal,
and He's perfect.
Verse 22, "Seeing ye have purified your souls, and obeying the truth through the spirit,
unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently.
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible."
What's something that's incorruptible?
"By the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever."
You think, how can a book live and abide forever?
Well, when you understand that the Word of God is Jesus Christ, that makes total sense.
Because Jesus Christ is God, and He's eternally existed, He's living forever, He will live
forever, He will abide forever, and the Word of God also will abide forever, will live
forever.
And it always has existed.
Verse 24, "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.
But the Word of the Lord endureth forever.
And this is the Word by which the gospel is preached unto you."
This is why we have to make such a big deal about the doctrine of the Word of God.
Because the Word of God, this is the Word by which the gospel is preached to people.
And people's eternity does depend on whether or not they get the Word of God.
We don't need just the gist of the Word of God.
We don't need to get just the general ideas of the Word of God.
We need the perfect, infallible, incorruptible Word of God in order to get people saved.
And so it's very important.
But the original manuscript-only-ism position is not properly viewing the Word of God.
Because they're viewing it like it's some sort of man-made creation, that was first
written in 1611, first printed, you know, it just came out new, right?
No, this is something that's eternally existed.
And when you point to the original manuscripts that Paul wrote, and you point to the original
manuscripts that other authors of the Bible physically penned with their hands, and you
call those the originals, you have an improper view of the Word of God.
They're not the originals.
Why is this idea wrong?
Well, first of all, the real originals are in heaven.
Originally, original manuscripts are not necessarily better than other translations, and I'll
prove to you that from the Word of God.
Go to Acts chapter number 21.
Acts chapter number 21.
The reason I say this, the reason I say original manuscripts are not necessarily better than
other translations is because we have this thing called language that God created, and
God speaks all languages, and if I have the original manuscript that Paul wrote in Greek,
and I translate that exactly into English, and it says the same thing in English, that
our original manuscript is not somehow better than English. The Hebrew and the Greek language
is not some sort of magical language that somehow is better than any other language,
rather God speaks all languages, and God created language, and so the Word of God can be translated
into any language. Look at Acts chapter 21 verse 40, "And when he had given him license,
Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was
made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying..." Now, what language
was the New Testament written in? Greek. Paul here is in the New Testament speaking
Hebrew that those Hebrew words were translated under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost into
Greek, and guess what? We're reading them right now in English. So the original thing
that Paul said was in Hebrew, but the first manuscripts of the New Testament had those
words recorded in Greek. What's the difference? What language it's in? You show me an original
manuscript in Greek, and it says the same thing in Spanish, it says the same thing in
English, it says the same thing in Russian, it doesn't make it more special if it says
the same thing. Now, if you have a Bible that's mistranslated, if you have a Bible where the
translators are purposely corrupting the word of God, then obviously those things are not
the same. And let me also say this. If you have the original manuscript written in Greek
and you translate it into English, it doesn't make the English better either. They're the
same. This is a straw man argument. You know, last week I was out soul winning, and one
of these guys who's an original manuscript onlyist was saying, "Well, you're elevating
the King James Bible above the original Greek and Hebrew." I'm saying, "No, I'm not.
I believe that they're exactly the same. I don't read Greek. I don't read Hebrew.
I have no desire to do so. Why would I point to those documents? No, rather, I believe
that the English was translated perfectly from those documents." So I'm not elevating
the King James Bible above the originals. I'm saying it's the same. And the originals
are not necessarily better than the English. The originals are not necessarily better into
any different language, because why? Paul's speaking Hebrew here, written in Greek, translated
in English, and we have his words preserved today, don't we? And guess what that takes?
That takes faith. That's what a lot of these original manuscripts only is black, is faith.
You get a cool story about this in Jeremiah. Jeremiah chapter number 36, the cool story
that kind of explains to us how the Word of God is preserved and how the Word of God is
even given. Jeremiah chapter 36, start reading in verse number one, says this, "And it came
to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word
came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 'Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein
all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel and against Judah, and against
all the nations from the day I spake unto thee from the days of Josiah, even unto this
day. It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto
them, that they may return every man from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity
and their sin.' Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Nehruayah, and Baruch wrote from
the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which he had spoken unto him upon a role
of a book." What's happening here? God is giving instruction to Jeremiah, and he's
saying, "I want you to write down all the words that I've spoken unto you." Every
single word. And then what Jeremiah is going to do is he's going to be filled with the
Holy Spirit. I'll read for you, you could stay there, I'll read for you 2 Peter 2,
or sorry, 2 Peter 1, 21, says this, "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will
of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." So what's
happening? God's telling Jeremiah, "Write all these words down." Then Jeremiah is going
to pronounce these words and he's going to have a scribe, Baruch, physically write down
these words for him. Now, this is a miracle. This is a spiritual miracle that's happening
because God's telling him to write all the words that he told him. And Jeremiah is not
just sitting here under the power of his fleshly mind and just trying, oh, I'm trying to remember
what God said. No, the Bible says that men, they spake as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost. So, Jeremiah is inspired by the Holy Ghost. He's speaking every single word that
God told him. He's not leaving anything out. He's not forgetting anything because the Holy
Spirit is enabling him to do this. And then what's happening? Baruch is physically writing
it down. Let's look at verse 5. "And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, 'I am shut up.
I cannot go into the house of the Lord. Therefore, go thou and read in the role which thou hast
written from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the ears of the people in the Lord's house
upon the fasting day. And also, thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come
out of their cities.'" So what's happening? The Word of God is going from the Lord to
Jeremiah. Jeremiah is speaking it. Baruch is writing it down. Now Baruch is going to
go read that to the people. So the Word of God has started with the Lord and it's gone
through a couple different channels, right? But has it been corrupted? No. It's still
perfect. It's still the Word of God. And notice Jeremiah says that you've written
these words. So you could point at this and say, "Oh, these are Baruch's words." Yeah,
you could say that because he did physically write them down. But couldn't you also say
that it's Jeremiah's word? Because he's speaking it and Baruch's writing it down.
And really at the end of the day, whose word is it really? God's word, right? So when
people say, "Oh, God did not write the Bible. Men wrote the Bible." Sure, you could say
that if you want. But at the end of the day, who really wrote the Bible? God did. Now
who physically penned things down? Men. By the inspiration of who? The Holy Ghost, which
is God. Who gave the words? God. So God wrote the Bible. He uses man as an instrument, as
a tool to get this done. And sometimes men are writing it themselves. Sometimes men are
speaking it and scribes are writing it for them. But at the end of the day, it's still
the word of God. And it's still being preserved. These men are speaking under the inspiration
of the Holy Spirit. Let's look at verse number 10. It says this, "Then read Baruch in the
book the words of Jeremiah." So notice Jeremiah says these are Baruch's word. Now it says,
"Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, in the
chamber of Gemariah, the son of Shefan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry
of the new gate of the Lord's house, in the ears of all the people. When Micaiah, the
son of Gemariah, the son of Shefan, had heard out of the book all the words of the Lord."
So notice how this chapter is interchanging whose words this is. It's Baruch's words,
it's the Lord's words, it's all correct. It's all correct. We could say, "Hey, this
is the book of Jeremiah." It's correct. We could say, "Hey, this is the word of God."
It's correct. We could say, "Hey, Baruch physically wrote this down." That's correct.
But at the end of the day, it's still all the word of God. Now, just to summarize verses
12 through 14, basically, Micaiah, he reads all of these words to the king's princes,
and then they call for Baruch. And look at verse number 15, what happens. 15, "All
the princes, they're saying to Baruch, and they said unto him, 'Sit down now and read
it in our ears.' So they want to hear it again. So Baruch read it in their ears. Now
it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid, both one and another,
and said unto Baruch, 'We will surely tell the king of all these words.' And they asked
Baruch, saying, 'Tell us now, how didst thou write all these words at his mouth?' Then
Baruch answered them, 'He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I
wrote them with ink in the book.'" Pretty amazing, right? They're like, "How did you
write these words from his mouth?" He's like, "Well, Jeremiah said it with his mouth. I
used my hand and a pen and I wrote it down." But why are they asking this question? They're
like, "How? What's going on?" Because never man spake like this man. That's why. Because
they're afraid one of another and they need to go tell the king. Why? Because what was
just read to them was powerful. Because what was just read to them was the word of God.
And it struck fear in their hearts. They're saying, "How did you get these words? How
did you come up with this? He didn't come up with it. Jeremiah didn't come up with
it. It's the word of God. And it's powerful. And never man spake like this man."
And then, of course, it gets read to the king in verses 19 through 21. And look what happens.
Let's start reading in verse 22. It says this, "Now the king sat in the winter house in the
ninth month, and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. And it came to pass that
when Jehuda had read three or four leaves, he cut it with a penknife and cast it into
the fire that was on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was
on the hearth. So what happens? The word of God that God spake to Jeremiah, that Jeremiah
spake to Baruch, that Baruch wrote down and read in the ears of the people, the king just
cut it up and burned it in the fire. You know what just happened? We just lost the original
manuscript. Jeremiah's original manuscript was just destroyed. We just lost the word
of God. It's gone. There was some things that God really wanted to show us. You know,
God went through all the trouble of inspiring Jeremiah under the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit, but unfortunately, the king was smarter than God. Unfortunately, the king was able
to destroy God's word. I know it existed eternally in heaven, but you know what? The
king was able to destroy it in a fire. That's what original manuscript only is believed.
That it's that easy to destroy the word of God. That it's that easy to lose the word
of God. That it can just be burned in a fire. That it can be buried in the ground and we
can forget about it. But let's see what happens. Let's read verse starting in verse number
27. "Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll,"
so the original manuscripts destroyed, "and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth
of Jeremiah, saying, 'Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words
that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.' And thou
shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, 'Thus saith the Lord, thou hast burned this roll,'
saying, 'Why hast thou written therein?' Saying, 'The king of Babylon shall certainly
come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast.' Therefore
thus saith the Lord of Jehoiakim king of Judah, 'He shall have none to sit upon the throne
of David, and his dead body shall be cast out in the day of heat and in the night to
the frost. And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity, and I
will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the men of Judah all
the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they hearkened not.' Then took Jeremiah
another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from
the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned
in the fire, and there were added besides unto them many like words." See, God is
able to preserve His word. God is not going to allow some king to just throw the word
of God in the fire, and then all of it's gone forever. No, guess what? He inspired
Jeremiah the first time, he can inspire him the second time. And guess what? The Bible
says that he wrote all the words of the book. He did not lose anything. The words that were
destroyed on that physical piece of paper in the fire, none of those words were destroyed.
None of those words passed away. And in fact, God gave him some more words to say, because
now God has some curses against Jehoiakim. Now God's giving some judgment against Jehoiakim
and saying, I'm going to add some inspired words for you. Why don't you write this down
too? And so Jehoiakim is going to pay a serious price for destroying the word of God. And
guess what? People will pay a serious price for tampering with the word of God. God will
judge people severely that want to mess with his word, that want to teach false doctrine
about his word, that want to attack his word. No, God is able to preserve his word. And
here's the thing. This just goes to show that just because something is an original
manuscript does not make it better than any other manuscript. Because guess what? I would
rather have the second version of Jeremiah than the first. I want to read about God rebuking
Jehoiakim too, right? I don't want the first one that was burned in the fire. Give me the
second one. Just because something's original, just because something's older doesn't necessarily
make it better. And the original manuscript onlyists, they believe that if they dug up
in the ground something that they consider to be an older manuscript, they believe then
that they would need to go change the Word of God and add that into the Bible, or take
something else out of the Bible if they believe that it was some legitimate document that's
older. But that's false. We just see right here that just because something's original
does not necessarily make it better. And this leads me to my next point of why original
manuscript onlyism is wrong, and that's because God promised to preserve His Word. God promised
to preserve His Word. Go to Psalm 12. Psalm 12, we're going to read a bunch of verses
in Psalm here. Psalm 12, 6, "The words of the Lord are pure words. As silver tried in
a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord. Thou shalt preserve
them from this generation forever." No one is going to be able to stop the Word of God.
No one is going to be able to destroy the Word of God because it's His job to preserve
it. He has taken that job upon Himself that God has said, "Okay, I'm going to preserve
my words. It's not up to us." And recently we interviewed someone for a project we're
working on, and Pastor Shelley asked this person, "Hey, do you think it's man's job
or do you think it's God's job to preserve the Bible?" And this person said, "Well,
I think it's man's job." Isn't that right, Brother Ben? He said, "Oh, I think it's
man's job to preserve the Bible." He said, "We basically just eclectically get to decide
what the Word of God is." He said, "I believe Pilgrim's progress is Scripture, and this
is the mentality that you have when you don't believe the Word of God, when you don't believe
God when He said that it's His job to preserve His Word, not us, because if it was our job,
we would screw it up. If it was our job, King Jehoiakim would have screwed it up for us.
But it's God's job. I'll read for you while you turn to Psalm 100. I'll read for you
Isaiah 55, 11 says, "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth. It shall
not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper
in the thing whereto I sent it." God has a will for His Word to accomplish, and that
Word is going to accomplish that which God wants it to do. Jehoiakim's not going to
be able to stop him. The Catholic Church isn't going to be able to stop him, keeping the
Word of God away from people. No one is going to be able to stop the Lord from preserving
His Word. Look at Psalm 100 verse 5, "For the Lord is good. His mercy is everlasting,
and His truth endureth to," what? "All generation." Every single generation, the Word of God,
His truth is going to endure. Psalm 119, go to Psalm 119. Look at verse 140. Psalm
119 verse 140, "Thy Word is very pure, therefore thy servant loveth it." Not, "Thy Word is
just kind of right." Not, "Thy Word is just," we kind of have the gist. No, the Bible says
that His Word is very pure. King James Bible is very pure. Psalm 138, skip over to Psalm
138, "I will worship," sorry, Psalm 138 verse 2, "I will worship toward Thy holy temple
and praise Thy name for Thy loving-kindness and for Thy truth, for Thou hast magnified
Thy Word above all Thy name." The Bible says that God has literally magnified His
Word even above His very name. The Bible teaches that someday every single knee will bow and
every single tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
Every single person is going to do that. But you know what? God has elevated, even over
the very name of Jesus Christ, His Word. Yet the Omos want us to believe that the Word
of God has been buried in the ground for thousands of years and that we just happened to find
it. We're lucky we found it. The Omos want us to believe that there is no Word of God
in English. It's not perfect. We believe the Word of God is perfect, inspired, inerrant,
the final authority in all things, in the original documents, like all those pastors
said that I read you from. No, the Bible says that God has magnified His Word above
His very name, and the Bible says that He's going to preserve it, and I believe that
He did. I actually have faith that He did, and that's what these homos lack, is faith.
They lack faith in the Word of God. Proverbs chapter number 30, skip over to Proverbs chapter
number 30, Proverbs 30 verse 5 says, "Every word of God is pure. He is a shield unto
them that put their trust in Him. Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee,
and thou be found a liar." Like I said, you mess with the Word of God, God is going
to judge you seriously. Whether that's taking away from His Word, whether that's adding
from His Word, whether that's causing people to doubt His Word. Teaching doctrines that
cause people to doubt the Word of God. What a horrible thing to do. Turn to 1 Corinthians
14 and I'll read for you Matthew 24, 35. "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my
words shall not pass away." And you know, people want, like I said, people want us to
make us feel stupid, make us feel like we believe in illogical position by saying that
the Word of God is perfectly preserved in the King James Bible. But think about it.
What is more logical to say? That the Word of God was written in the original Greek and
Hebrew and that it's been perfectly translated into English in the King James Bible? What's
more logical to say? Or that God went through all the trouble of inspiring His Word, inspiring
holy men to speak, and that He wrote it down in the original manuscripts, but then we just
forgot about it, it got lost, and now we don't have the Word of God, we just have something
kind of close. What's more logical to think? I mean, if you're an atheist, I can kind
of understand the second position, because everything's just made from human will, human
logic, but if you believe in God, if you believe that God's powerful enough to create the universe,
if you believe that God's powerful enough to forgive you of all of your sins and to
take you to heaven, but He's not powerful enough to preserve His Word, how stupid is
that? How illogical is that? Why does there have to be over 400 versions of the Bible
in one language? How is that logical? Oh, it's all says the same thing. No, it doesn't.
Not even close. What a stupid idea. And you know what? These people are vainly puffed
up in their own mind. They're prideful. They think they know more than God. They think
that they're so smart. But guess what? It's a stupid idea to be an original manuscript
onlyist for many reasons. We talked about why it's wrong, but let's talk about why
this is dangerous, okay? You're in 1 Corinthians 14. The reason why it's dangerous, and I've
kind of touched on it a little bit, is because original manuscript onlyism destroys people's
faith. It absolutely destroys people's faith. Let's read a couple verses here in 1 Corinthians
14 verse 1. "Just follow after charity and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that you
may prophesy. For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but
unto God. For no man understandeth him, howbeit in the Spirit he speaketh mysteries. But
he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification and exhortation and comfort.
He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifyeth himself, but he that prophesieth edifyeth
the church. I would that ye all speak with tongues, but rather that ye prophesy. For
greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret
that the church may receive edifying. Now brethren, if I come unto you speaking with
tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation or
by knowledge or by prophesying or by doctrine. So, obviously it's great to speak in tongues,
meaning speaking a foreign language, but unless I have an interpreter, unless I'm explaining
things, unless I'm revealing things to you, it's not going to profit you whatsoever.
It's not going to make any sense. If you come to the Spanish service tonight and you
don't speak Spanish, it's not going to profit you. You're not going to know what's going
on, okay? But if you speak Spanish, then they're prophesying, it's edifying, it's good. Look
at verse 7, "And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except
they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
Or if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?"
So unless you're understanding the language that's being spoken, how are you going to
understand what's being meant by the things that are saying, right? And even inanimate
objects like a pipe or a harp, unless there's some sort of distinction in the sound, you're
not going to know what is being, what's being meant by those notes, right? If brother Jared
was up here and just played one note the whole time for a song, that wouldn't be very profitable,
right? We want him to like play the whole song. Or if we're going out to battle and
there's a battle trumpet sound, we want to know the difference between the battle trumpet
sound and a trumpet sound that means something different. And there actually is on the word
of God, trumpets that mean different things. If you look at the book of Joel, I'll show
you this out of the book of Joel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, give you a second to turn there.
Look at Joel chapter number two. It says, "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an
alarm." So this trumpet that's being blown in verse one, it's an alarm. It says, "In
my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord
cometh, for it is nigh at hand." So this trumpet, it's an alarm. It's saying, "Hey, there's
danger coming. We're trembling. There's something horrible coming." Right? That's what this
trumpet means in Joel two, verse one. But look, there's another trumpet in this chapter.
Look at verse 15. It says, "Blow the trumpet in Zion. Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.
Gather the people. Sanctify the congregation. Assemble the elders. Gather the children
and those that suck the breast. Let the bridegroom go forth out of his chamber and the bride
out of her closet." So this second trumpet, it's saying, "Hey, blow the trumpet so that
everyone can be gathered together." So there's different types of trumpets, right? If you
give the sound, "Hey, we're going to war," you need to make a certain sound with that
trumpet so we know, "Okay, there's an enemy coming. We need to get ready for battle."
And if you're gathering people for a congregation, that needs to be a very certain sound so that
we're not mistaking that for war, and there's chaos and frenzy and confusion and everything.
Everyone's running around with their weapons when all he wanted to do was sanctify a fast
and gather the congregation together. Well, look, it's the same thing with preaching.
If you preach the Word of God and the preacher is making an uncertain sound, there's going
to be a lot of confusion. There's going to be a lot of chaos. And when you don't believe
that the King James Bible is the perfect Word of God, the preacher can't just firmly stand
on what the Bible says because, well, you know, I don't know if this is what the original
actually said, so I can't really give you a certain sound right here. And guess what?
When you give an uncertain sound, people get hurt. When you give an uncertain sound, people
can die. And there's certain doctrines in the Bible that if you don't believe correctly,
you will literally go to hell. You will literally spend eternity in flames and torment in hell
if the preacher does not get up and give the correct sound of the trumpet. And so why is
this an important deal? Because people are going to hell for believing false doctrine.
That's why it's important. Because you don't want to be blowing the trumpet of gathering
the assembly together when there's warfare going on. And they cannot take a hard stand
on anything in the Bible because if they look at the Bible, and even if it says the same
thing as the King James Bible, they could always just, "Well, the original manuscript
probably didn't say that though." Or if they just want to wiggle out with what the King
James Bible says, they can't wiggle out of it. They're just like, "Well, let's go to
the Greek over here and just twist what it means, not trust what the English says."
I'll give you an example of this. I'll read for you Matthew 7, 14. In the King James
Bible it says, "Because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life,
and few there be that find it." Jesus' disciples asked Him, "Lord, are there few that be saved?"
And He told them that straight is the gate and narrow is the way. And what that means
is that salvation, not very many people are going to be saved, unfortunately. In comparison
of the whole world of everyone that's going to exist, relatively few people are going
to be saved. Why is that? Well, because the devil's out there deceiving people with false
doctrine, because people want to be justified by their own works, people want to be saved
by their false religion, and so, you know, it's a very exclusive path. Salvation's
a very narrow path. It's believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved. There's
one way. There's one way only to be saved. There's not multiple ways. But here's what
the modern versions say. Here's the new King James Version. Just getting rid of the
these and the thou's, right? Just making it a little easier to read, because narrow
is the gate and difficult is the way, which leads to life, and there are few who find
it. You know, the trumpet sound of salvation arguably needs to be the most clear of any
trumpet sound in the whole Bible, and the King James Bible from Genesis to Revelation
teaches salvation by faith, not probation, not repent of your sins, not keep doing the
right thing till the end. They'll believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and when you've
done that, you've passed from death unto life. It's a one-time transaction, and once
you're saved, you're always saved. But the new King James says that salvation's difficult.
And guess what? If salvation was by works, if salvation was by me cleaning up my life,
by me living according to God's commandments, then salvation would be difficult. And so
now people are getting an uncertain sound of the trumpet, and if they believe this horrible
false doctrine of works, salvation, they spend eternity in hell. That's why this is an important
doctrine. That's why the original manuscript onlyists make me so mad, because they teach
false doctrine that causes people to go to hell. Here's the ESV, for the gate is narrow,
and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. And they always
want to show you verses in their Bibles that say the same thing as the King James Bible.
Oh, well, it says the right thing here about salvation. Oh, it says salvation's by faith
here. Yeah, but what about this horrible poison that says that salvation's difficult? And
this is just one example. There's many, many examples in these false versions where they're
literally twisting the doctrine of salvation, where they're literally twisting the deity
of Jesus Christ. Some of these versions calling Joseph Jesus' father. When the King James
says that it was supposed that Joseph was Jesus' father, never calling Joseph Jesus'
father, because obviously he's the son of God. But the King James Bible doesn't attack
the deity of Christ. Here's another less important doctrine, not as important as salvation,
but it's still important. And it's still, if preachers get up and they sound the wrong
trumpet, they could still ruin people's lives. How about divorce and remarriage? Go to Matthew
chapter number 19. Matthew chapter number 19. Omo's love to twist this verse here,
Matthew 19, 9, "And I say unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for
fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery, and whoso marrieth her which is
put away, doth commit adultery." So Jesus is teaching that, you know, unless your spouse
lied to you and you find out on the wedding night that they actually were not a virgin,
maybe they were unclean or something like that, then if you go out and divorce her and
marry another, you're committing adultery. Now Jesus, he's not saying, "Oh, this is good
if this happens. You should divorce if this happens." He's just saying that theoretically
if this happened and you married another, unless that specific instance of fornication
was happening and you marry another, then it's adultery. But I want to show you how
the new versions change this verse in the ESV. It says this, "And I say to you, whosoever
divorces his wife except for sexual immorality and marries another commits adultery." So
how far, how loose are we going to get with that? Is that thinking an unpure thought?
Is that looking at the opposite gender a little too long? Because if we're honest in here,
we know that every single person's a sinner. And if you were to go by those rules, then
every single person on the planet has done that. And so is Jesus just giving total license
to divorce for any reason? Absolutely not. But you know what? A lot of these preachers
teach absolute license for divorce for any reason, any excuse. They can come up with,
they try to make the Bible teach their false doctrine. What are they doing? They're sounding
the wrong sound of the trumpet. People are running to the battle. People are getting
destroyed. Their lives are getting destroyed by divorce, by remarriage. Children are being
brought up in broken homes because the Word of God is not being preached clearly because
they have nothing to stand on. They're standing on the shifting sands. Here's the new living
translation that says this, "And I tell you this, whoever divorces his wife and marries
someone else commits adultery unless his wife has been unfaithful." But we're even more
loose with this. It's like, is she faithful in doing the dishes on time? Is she faithful
in doing all the laundry? Because if not, go ahead, you could divorce her. That's what
this version is saying. That's even weaker than sexual immorality. But the King James
Bible, it's a sharp, two-edged sword. It's ornication. Very specific thing. Not adultery,
not sexual immorality, not being unfaithful. Hope you go soul winning every week, ladies.
You're unfaithful. Your husband can bounce. That's garbage. False doctrine. I'll read
for you. Actually, let's go ahead and turn there to 2 Timothy, chapter number 3. And
I'll read Romans 7 verse 2. It says, "For the woman which hath an husband is bound by
the law to her husband, so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed
from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another
man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband be dead, she is free from that
law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man." King James
Bible, very specific, the certain sound tells you exactly what God wants you to know. It's
not just like unfaithful. What does that mean? The Bible is very specific, what God wants
for you. And basically, the Omos, at any given time, if there's something in their Bible
they don't like, they just have to say, "Well, that's probably not what the original said."
And what does that do? It destroys people's faith in the Word of God. It destroys people's
faith in the Word of God. Because they're not able to just point to the truth and say,
"Like it or lump it, this is the Word of God." They can just change it at any time by going
to some magical language that you don't know. 2 Timothy 3.16, "All scripture is given by
inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, that's truth; for reproof, that's telling
you that you're wrong; for correction, that's telling you what's right; and for instruction
in righteousness, that's telling you how to get it right, that the man of God may be
perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." You know, when you believe the King
James Bible and you realize that the entire scripture is inspired by God, that the entire
scripture is profitable for correction, for all these things, then you could actually
take hard stances on what the Bible says. But have you noticed the people that believe
that the Word of God was only inspired in the original manuscripts? Have you noticed
that they're the ones that do not take a hard stance on sin? They never take a hard
stance on anything. You know why? You know, our church people, especially the Omos, they
don't like that our church takes such a hard stance on the sodomites, right? But you want
to know why we can take such a hard stance on the sodomites? It's because I know we're
right. Well, how can you say that? Because of the Bible. Because I actually have faith
in the Bible. And when the Bible says something, I can't just skirt around the text on the
page and say, oh, that's probably not what it meant. No, we actually believe it. We actually
believe Leviticus 2013, where it says, if a man also lie with mankind, as he lied with
a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood
shall be upon them. I believe that. Why? Because it's what the Bible says, not not what the
almost like to say. Well, you know, that's just talking about pedophiles. I've gotten
so many emails where it's like, you know, the original King James Bible, the original
manuscripts, said that only applied to pedophiles and someone changed it in the 1950s to say
homosexuals. No, it's always said if a man lie with mankind. It's always said that.
And so we're not coming up with some new idea, some fringe idea. This is what the Bible
has always said, guess what? Since before the foundation of the world, it's eternally
said that forever. Why would we change on what God has eternally penned down in His
word? Why? They're not able to take a hard stance on anything because they just say,
well, it's probably not in the original manuscript. You show these people verses on alcohol. It's
funny. This guy that I ran into out soul winning that was ESV and a bunch of different other
versions, he had a big problem with us being King James only, and he believed in work salvation.
And I was telling him, look, you don't have to give up, you know, fornication, drinking,
being lazy. I was just listening and he said, it's like, you don't have to give these things
up to be saved. Salvation is a free gift. And he's like, drinking? You think drinking's
a sin? And it's like, you're sitting here telling me salvation's by works and you think
it's okay to drink alcohol? I'm telling you, you don't have to stop sinning to be saved.
It's a free gift. But yeah, alcohol's a sin because it's what the Bible says. But when
you're an Omo, when your original manuscript only has to say, well, it just means something
else. Said something else in the original manuscripts. Unfortunately, we don't have
the perfect inspired word of God today. We just have the gist. And the Bible's just against
drunkenness. It's not against drinking. It's just against drunkenness, type of garbage
that you can get. Divorce, fornication. Oh, what is sexual immorality exactly? What if
we love each other? Is that then sexual immorality? Well, it's fornication, according to the
Bible. And when you're King James only, you can take that hard sand and say, "Hey, anything
before marriage? Fornication. Period. End of story." Now, oh, do we love each other?
Where's the line? No, forget about all that. What does the Bible say? What does the Bible
say? Adultery. Same thing. Adultery, according to the Bible, is an offense worthy of death.
It's something that our country has believed for a long time. Why is that? Because it's
what the Bible says. Now our country is filled with adultery. Filled with divorce. It's
a sad testimony to our nation. But why is it? It's because we've stopped believing
the Word of God. Because this stupid poison of original manuscript-onlyism has destroyed
people's faith in the Bible. That's why. Why go to church? Why would I go to church
if the preachers are going to read me something that I don't even know is true? It could
be true. It could have said something different in the past. I don't even know. Why would
I go listen to that guy? And why would he even preach? Because what does he have to
say? Just his opinion. That's all he has to say. Not the Word of God. And guess what?
Why is this a dangerous doctrine? Because it destroys people's faith in God. That's
why. Also, my final point of why this is such a dangerous doctrine is because original
manuscript-onlyism leads man to being the final authority. Rather than God being the
final authority, rather than God giving us His perfect Word, and we all have to say,
"This is the Word of God. This is what we submit ourselves to. Whatever it says is right.
If I think something different, it's wrong." Instead of that mentality, now men are telling
us what's right in the Bible. Men are telling us what should and shouldn't be in the Bible.
Men are telling us what words actually meant in the Greek and Hebrew. And so now who's
the final authority? Man is. What a horrible church to go to. What a waste of time to bring
your family to a church where the preacher's going to preach. He doesn't even know if
what he's reading is actually the word of God. He'll tell you that. And then on top
of that, he'll tell you out of his own opinion or out of some Greek scholar's opinion what
the Bible should have said. So you're showing up to church to just hear an uncertain trumpet
of some prideful jerk that thinks he speaks Greek. Tell you what the Bible says. It's
garbage. Absolute garbage. I'll read, go ahead and turn to Ephesians chapter number
five. Ephesians chapter number five. You know, oh, the word sodomite, really if you go back
to the Greek, it means temple prostitute. You ever heard that before? The type of garbage
the going back to the Greek idiots teach. So why? So that they can escape what the Bible
says so that they can be the authority and not God. God says put them to death. Well,
these men are saying bring them into the church. Let them watch the children. They can get
saved. Never mind what God says. Let's just rewrite what God says. Oh, because if you
go back to the Greek, sodomite isn't sodomite. It's male temple prostitute. Garbage. Ephesians
5, look at verse 21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives,
submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. This is just for free, but
you want to know what that says in the Greek? Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands.
It doesn't say anything different. And guess what? A lot of churches don't want to preach
on that either. I wonder if maybe that said something different back then too. Yeah, let's
not preach it. We don't know for sure if it's what it said. No, it says wives, submit
yourselves to your own husbands. That's what the Bible says. Look at verse 23. For the
husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the savior
of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject under Christ, so let the wives be to their
own husbands in everything. At this church, we believe that Jesus Christ is the head of
the church. And we have our under shepherd, Pastor Jonathan Shelley. He's in charge from
a human perspective. But the person who's ultimately the final authority in this church
is the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, how practically do we have that happen? Does Jesus Christ
come here every Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night? Is He here in attendance
with us? Is He preaching for us? No. How is Jesus Christ the authority in our church?
By the Word of God. Jesus is the Word of God. And if we submit ourselves to what the Bible
says, then He is the final authority in our church, Jesus Christ. Now, here's what the
original manuscript only has to do. Rather than submitting themselves to the Lord, rather
than submitting themselves to God, they get to tell you what should and shouldn't be
in the Bible. Oh, this didn't say that. Let's go back to the Greek. Let's call in James
White. Let him tell us what it really says. You want to know who the final authority of
their church is? James White. James White is their final authority. That's a scary
church to be in. Whatever Greek scholar they look to, whatever Catholic monk they look
to, that's their final authority in their church. What a terrifying thing that is. Absolute
garbage. But when you realize, hey, Jesus Christ is the Word of God. God promised to
preserve it. We have it right here. We have to submit ourselves to it. That's having
Jesus as the head of your church. And here's what's so funny. People call us a cult for
believing the King James Bible. People say we are a cult for believing that the King
James Bible is the perfect, preserved Word of God. Yet, other churches can make the Bible
say anything they want. They can go back to the Greek and tell you this can mean anything
they want to. They're the ones that are ultimately in charge, and that's somehow not a cult?
What we are is the exact opposite of a cult, because at any time we get outside of the
bounds of what the Bible says, we know who's right and who's wrong. But what they're doing
is they're inserting all this confusion. They've destroyed people's faith. They keep
putting question marks in the Bible where God's put a period. They keep saying, "Yea,
hath God said?" Does God really hate some people? Is salvation really by faith? Should
we really not be cross-dressers? Does soul winning actually work? Do you really need
to call upon the name of the Lord to be saved? I don't know. Let's just say whatever I
want as the preacher. Let me just ask James White what he thinks. That's the cult! Being
King James only is not a cult. It's logical. It makes sense. It's what happens when you
actually believe that God made a promise to preserve His word and that He's going to keep
that promise. It makes sense. It absolutely makes sense to be King James only. I'll read
for you John 8 47. "Ye that is of God heareth God's words, ye therefore hear them not, because
ye are not of God." You want to know why people think that just all the versions are okay?
Because they can't even hear the word of God. Because they're not even saved. These original
manuscript onlyists that just use all types of Bible versions, they just believe all these
false, false sound of a trumpet doctrines from their Bible, they don't believe the word
of God because they're not saved. So in order to get someone to be King James only, you
got to get them saved first. Now I've heard of people that have become King James only
before getting saved and that's great, that's great. But a lot of times the reason why people
are not King James only, why they don't hear the voice of the word of God, why they
don't hear the shepherd is because they're simply not of God. And so we need to fight
against this doctrine of original manuscript only because this is absolutely poisoning
Christianity today. This is making it hard for people to get saved and it's making
it hard for people to believe any doctrine that the Bible presents. Because if you walk
up to someone's door and you want to go get them saved, the most important thing is that
they believe in the word of God. Because if they don't believe in the word of God, there's
nothing you can do for that person. There's nothing you can show them. And so if they're
like, "Well, you know, show me John 3.16," but I don't know if it really means believe
there. You speak Greek? No, I don't. Okay, well, I don't know if that's true. And guess
what? They've been poisoned by these false prophets, these homos that are destroying
people's faith. What does the Bible say in Hebrews? It says, "But without faith it is
impossible to please Him." And the biggest thing that these homos lack is faith. And
guess what? I can never convince anyone by a mathematical equation that the King James
Bible is the Word of God. I can never... You know, we can look at the history and we can
talk about, you know, the process by which we got the King James Bible and all that
stuff is really good. All that stuff is really profitable. But I can never prove to you from
those things that the King James Bible is the Word of God. You know what it takes to
believe is faith. It is going to take faith to believe in the Word of God. Now, what do
you want to believe? It's your choice. Do I want to believe that God, who is all-powerful,
created the universe, created you, knows as many hairs that are on your head, died on
the cross for you, saves you, is able to take you to heaven? Do I believe that that God
is powerful enough to preserve His Word for us perfectly in English, or do I believe that
Jehoiakim destroyed it? And it's in one of the 400 versions. The truth used to be out
there somewhere and we kind of have the gist, what kind of faith are you going to have?
Look, if you're going to believe the Bible, if you're going to call yourself a Christian,
why don't you actually believe it? Why don't you say, "I actually believe every word of it.
It's perfect. It's inspired. It's preserved." And why don't you treasure it and read it
and go out and share it with other people and tell them, "Hey, this is the Word of God.
Here's the plan of salvation that was foreordained before the world began."
We need to continue to fight against these omos, against this doctrine of original manuscript
onlyism, because it is destroying people's faith in the Word of God.
And we need to proudly and boldly say, "Yeah, we're King James only.
We believe in the King James Bible.
It's all we believe in at our church.
Come find out why and show them some of these things from the Word of God to have a word
of prayer."
Lord, thank You for this day and thank You so much for Your Word, thank You that You
did inspire it, that You did preserve it, and that Your truth really does endure to
all generations.
I pray that every single person in here would treasure it and that it wouldn't just sit
on their shelf.
They would actually open up and read it and not just look at it as a human book that was
written by authors, but that they would rather realize that it's the Word of God, that it
is the Lord Jesus Christ that has eternally existed in heaven for us.
Pray that we would read it and share it with others.
In His name we pray, amen.
Amen.
Thank you for the message, Brother Dillon.
Let's go ahead and take out our hymnal, sing one more song before we go, 319, Sound the
Battle Cry.
I'm just hoping that sermon doesn't get censored because he said "Omo's" a lot, so hopefully
they'll get it right.
Omo.
I'm sorry.
419.
I said 319.
Go to 419, giving you an uncertain sound here.
Sound the Battle Cry.
Wait one second here.
419.
Sound the Battle Cry.
Sound the Battle Cry, see the foe has not raised the standard high for the Lord.
Heard your heart be one, rest your cause upon his holy name.
Captain.
Y'all for coming.
God bless.