And then all right, well, it's great to be back here tonight.
I've had a great day here.
The great fellowship and soul winning man, receptive.
Seeing 13 people saved with a group we have,
that is an awesome number.
So keep up the great work here, guys.
You're doing a great job.
And tonight we're in Psalm chapter 12,
which is the theme chapter of this church,
Pure Words Baptist Church.
And one of the things that Pure Words Baptist Church believes
and one of the things that Steadfast Baptist Church believes
is that the King James Bible is the perfect inspired
and errant word of God in the English language.
It's the only Bible that we use.
It is the only one that we believe is acceptable to use
in the English language.
And the title of my sermon tonight is The NIV is Garbage.
The NIV is garbage.
And you know, there's so many ways
that we can defend our position as King James only.
You hear a lot of sermons about the inspiration
of scripture, the preservation of scripture.
A lot of times it's attacking it from the historical
or logical perspective.
But really tonight, I just want to focus on one version,
one false version of the Bible called the NIV.
And go to 2 Corinthians chapter two,
and I want to explain why this type of sermon
needs to be preached.
2 Corinthians chapter two, verse 17.
The Bible says, "For 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."
So Paul, he's saying, "We are not as many
which corrupt the word of God."
So Paul straight up tells us there are many people
that corrupt the word of God and isn't it funny?
You know, I looked up the 2020 Bible sales in the US.
What were the most popular Bibles?
What was the most sold Bible in the US?
And in 2020, the number one selling Bible
in the United States was the NIV,
the New International Version.
It's what's being sold on the shelves all over America.
It's probably what your extended family is reading.
It's probably when you go out soul winning
what a lot of people, you know, out soul winning
are reading when you talk to them.
And it's the number one selling Bible.
And so it needs to be preached against
because it's full of absolute garbage.
And in fact, this version is garbage.
But I just want to give you the list.
Here's the top 10 top selling versions of the Bible
in the United States in 2020.
Number one, the NIV.
Number two, the King James Version, timeless.
Number three, the NLT.
Number four, the ESV.
Number five, the new King James.
Number six, the CSB.
Number seven, the Reina Valera, the Spanish Bible.
That's pretty interesting.
The Reina Valera, the Spanish Bible
beat out the English New International Readers version,
and it beat out the message.
Thank God for that.
That's a horrible version of the Bible.
It's like a paraphrase.
And number 10, the NASB.
So of all those, number one selling,
the most popular Bible in the United States
as far as what is selling is the NIV.
And that is a shame because I wanna give you
four reasons tonight why the NIV is garbage
and why we should reject this Bible version.
So number one, the NIV has many factual heirs.
Has many factual heirs.
Go to John chapter number one.
John chapter number one.
First reason we should reject this false Bible version
is because it has many factual heirs.
John chapter one, verse one, the Bible says,
"In the beginning was the Word,
"and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
"The same was in the beginning with God.
"All things were made by Him,
"and without Him was not anything made that was made."
So in John chapter one, we realize that this is talking
about the Lord Jesus Christ.
And the Lord Jesus Christ is described as the Word of God.
Later on in this chapter, in verse 14,
it says, "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us."
There's no doubt what this is talking about.
It's talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Bible says that Jesus Christ is the Word.
You know what that tells me?
The Word of God must be perfect.
Because if Jesus Christ is the Word of God,
and Jesus Christ is perfect,
then the Word of God must be perfect.
It must be absolutely perfect, must have no blemishes,
no errors in it of any kind.
And go to Psalm 119.
I'll reread for you what we read in Psalm 12, verse six.
The Bible says the words of the Lord are pure words.
As silver tried in a furnace of earth,
purified seven times.
Thou shall keep them, O Lord.
Thou shall preserve them from this generation forever.
So the Bible tells us that the words of the Lord,
it's like silver purified in a furnace of earth.
Just boiling it up to an extremely hot temperature
to draw out all the dross and all the scum
and all the impurities out of that silver
and just to do that process over and over
and over and over again.
That's what the Bible is described as.
But not only that, the Bible says
that the person who is in charge of preserving the words of God
is God himself.
So God's not going to allow his perfect word of God
to just be full of errors and to be full of mistakes in it.
No, Jesus is the word.
Jesus is perfect.
God's job is to preserve the word of God
and he's going to preserve it perfectly.
I had you go to Psalms 119.
Psalm 119, look at verse 89.
Psalm 119, 89, the Bible says,
"Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
"Thy faithfulness is unto all generations.
"Thou hast established the earth and it abideth."
So Bible says that God's word is established in heaven.
So God's word is already preordained
before the world began.
The Bible was already in heaven
and he says that he's faithful to all generations.
So there's not gonna be a generation
that just doesn't have the words of God.
We didn't just dig up the words of God
in a Catholic monastery a couple hundred years ago
and just now got the Bible.
Now the Bible says that he's faithful to all generations
and God has been faithful to us in preserving his word.
Look at verse 138 of the same chapter.
Verse 138, "Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded
"are righteous and very faithful.
"My zeal hath consumed me
"because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
"Thy word is very pure.
"Therefore thy servant loveth it."
I think the Bible's starting to make a point here
that the words of the Lord are pure words.
The Bible's repeating this.
Jesus is the word.
God's faithful with his word
and that the words of God are very pure.
Look at verse 160 of the same chapter, verse 160.
"Thy word is true from the beginning,
"and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever."
Every single one of God's judgments endureth forever.
So that tells me that if we have a Bible
that's just full of all these heirs,
that it's not the same Bible
that Psalm 119 is talking about.
It's not the same Bible that Psalm chapter 12
is talking about.
It's not the perfect and inerrant word of God
that's described in John chapter number one.
The Bible over and over again is just saying
that the Bible is pure, pure, faithful, faithful,
and it's gonna endure, it's perfect, it's perfect.
Go to Psalm chapter 19.
Let's look at how the Bible just continues in this theme.
Psalm chapter 19, look at verse seven.
"The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
The fear of the Lord is clean during forever.
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
I don't know how many times the Bible has to tell us that the Word of God is pure.
But hey, I don't want there to be any room for doubt that it's not OK
to have a Bible that's full of errors.
It's not OK to have a Bible that's not pure.
It's not OK to have a Bible that is not faithful.
Go to First Peter, chapter one.
And I'll read for you Hebrews, chapter five, verse nine.
This is speaking of our Lord Jesus Christ, it says, and being made perfect.
He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.
Jesus Christ is perfect.
And guess what? He's the author of eternal salvation.
He's the author of the words of life.
He is the author of this book, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And he was perfect.
He's going to give us a perfect book.
First Peter, chapter one, you're there in verse twenty three.
The Bible says being born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.
So it's very important what Bible version you have,
because there's only one way you can get saved.
And it's with the incorruptible seed, not with the corruptible seed.
You're not going to be bringing forth fruit.
You're not going to be getting anyone saved with a false Bible version.
So now I want to show you in point number one,
how many factual errors that we find in the NIV.
Go to Ecclesiastes, chapter number eight,
Ecclesiastes, chapter number eight.
We're going to be flipping around a lot tonight.
Ecclesiastes, chapter number eight.
And look at verse 10.
Might help if I get there myself. Ecclesiastes eight, ten.
The Bible says, And so I saw the wicked buried,
who had come and gone from the place of the Holy.
And they were, remember this, forgotten in the city where they had so done.
This also is vanity.
You know what the NIV says?
It says, then, too, I saw the wicked buried.
Those who used to go come and go from the holy place
and received praise in the city where they did this.
This, too, is meaningless.
So which one is it?
Were they forgotten in the city or they receiving praise in the city?
Because that's not the same thing.
That's not even close to the same thing.
So one of these is wrong.
And obviously, I believe it's the NIV because this is taken
from a completely different text.
It's a garbage translation because it's not even using the same underlying
text as the King James Bible is using, because how do you get forgotten
and receiving praise mixed together?
You don't. It has to be a different source.
And so here's a factual error that we find in the NIV.
Go to Second Samuel, Chapter 15, Second Samuel, Chapter number 15,
Second Samuel 15 and look at verse number seven.
And it came to pass after 40 years that Absalom said unto the king,
I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I vowed unto the Lord in Hebron.
In the NIV, it says at the end of four years, Absalom said to the king,
let me go to Hebron and fulfill a vow.
I made to the Lord.
So the King James Bible is telling us it's four years and the NIV
telling 40 years and the NIV is telling us it's four years.
This is the type of stuff that gives atheist ammunition,
because this is where they start saying, oh, I could find you so many
contradictions in that Bible, because look at the timeline here.
And look, Saul's one years old and he's king in this Bible version.
And it's like they can never show you that kind of stuff, though,
in the King James Bible.
But I could show you that stuff all day long in the NIV.
And that's what we're going to do.
That's the point of this sermon is to expose the NIV.
Go to Second Samuel, flip over to Chapter 21,
Second Samuel, Chapter 21, and look at verse 19.
Second Samuel 21, verse 19.
And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines,
where where El Hanan, the son of Jair
Oregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath, the Gittite,
the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
So we have El Hanan slaying the brother of Goliath.
In the 1984 NIV, it says in another place
with the Philistines at Gob, El Hanan, the son of Jair Oregim,
the Bethlehemite, killed Goliath, the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft
like a weaver's rod. What's funny is every single child,
every single six year old and every single Sunday school across this nation
knows who killed Goliath, that it was David.
Yet the NIV, from whenever it was first
translated all the way until 2011, said that this random guy slew Goliath.
It's like, how do you take a Bible like this seriously?
How is this the number one selling Bible in America?
That's quite a big factual error that they made there.
And they didn't even fix it until 2011.
For decades and decades, they just let that garbage sit in the Bible.
It's ridiculous.
It's a horrible translation.
Go to Matthew chapter number 18, Matthew chapter number 18.
Let's look at some more here.
Matthew chapter 18 and look at verse number 21, Matthew 18, 21.
Then came Peter to him and said, Lord,
how oft shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him till seven times?
Jesus said unto him, I say not unto thee until seven times, but until 70 times seven.
Peter asked him, how many times should I forgive my brother?
And Jesus says 70 times seven times.
He's just giving him this huge number because he's just pointing out that you're
never actually going to reach that number in one single day.
He's just saying you should have never any forgiveness for your brothers in Christ.
But the NIV says Jesus answered, I say unto you or sorry, Jesus answered.
I tell you not seven times, but 77 times.
Well, here's a new slash for you.
Four hundred and ninety does not equal 77.
OK, there's a factual error in the NIV.
And it's like, where is this stuff coming from?
You say, oh, that's no big deal.
No, it is a big deal because the Bible says every word of God is pure.
And so if you don't think that's a big deal,
you have a heart problem because it's God's job to preserve his word.
And when something is wrong in the Bible and something's not correct
and it's claiming to be the pure word of God, it's a fraud.
It's a phony.
And you know what?
Every single jot and every single tittle in the Bible matters a lot.
And we're going to see it gets way worse
than just a numbers difference in this Bible.
Go to Mark, chapter number one, Mark, chapter number one, verse 41.
And Jesus moved with compassion,
put forth his hand and touched him and saith unto him,
I will be thou clean.
So here's a beautiful story of the Lord Jesus Christ,
who's touched with compassion and he heals this man.
In the NIV, it says Jesus was indignant.
He reached out his hand and touched the man.
I am willing. He said, be clean.
So here we have the compassionate Lord Jesus Christ healing this man
in the in the King James Bible.
But in the NIV, we have the angry, indignant Lord Jesus Christ
healing this man is to be like, be clean.
You know, like he like he's bothered to heal this man.
Hey, that's that's a big difference.
That's a huge error.
That's not what the Lord Jesus Christ was doing in this verse.
He was not indignant in this verse.
Now, there are other times in the Bible where Jesus is getting mad.
There's times in the Bible where Jesus is flipping tables,
where Jesus is literally whipping people. OK.
But this was not one of those times.
And so when Jesus is compassionate, I want to know when Jesus was being
compassionate and when Jesus was angry.
I want to know when Jesus was being angry.
But I want my Bible to be factually correct.
And the NIV is not factually correct.
Luke, chapter four, Luke, chapter four.
Let's go over there.
Luke, chapter number four, and let's read verse forty four.
Luke four, forty four.
And it says, and he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.
In the NIV, it says, and he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.
Now, that's when we're reading that, we don't know much about geography.
That's just two different words.
But when you understand, you look at a map, that's way off.
Galilee is way, way north and Judea is way, way south.
It's like getting the difference between Oklahoma and Texas messed up.
It's like, which one was Jesus in? OK.
Tell us the truth here, NIV.
It's obviously wrong here.
Luke, chapter number 10, flip over to Luke, chapter number 10.
You know, excusing these type of small mistakes is one thing
when it comes out of the mouth of a man.
But when something's proclaiming to be the word of God, it needs to be perfect.
We misspeak, we get details wrong, we make factual errors all the time.
But guess what?
I'm not proclaiming to be the word of God.
But yet the people that translated the NIV says, here's the word of God
with all these errors on it, all these factual errors, and it's absolute garbage.
Luke, chapter 10, verse one.
After these things, the Lord appointed other 70 also,
and he sent them to and to before his face into every city
and place whither himself would come.
The NIV says after this, the Lord appointed 72 others.
So the King James says 70, the NIV says 72.
What's the big deal?
The big deal is that the Bible says every word of God is pure.
That's the big deal.
The big deal is that God said that his word is going to be faithful to all
generations. That's the big deal.
And what this really exposes is the fact that the NIV
was translated from a completely different source.
It just is. It's not even close to the King James Bible.
The King James Bible, you know, translated from the Texas Receptus, the TR.
You know, it's not even the same source.
It's not even the same source because these are not just small details.
Some of these some of these are just way off.
And you don't get that unless you're translating from a different source.
So, number one, the reason we should reject the NIV is because that's factual errors.
That should be enough right there.
But it actually gets a lot worse.
Number two, the reason we should reject the NIV is because it removes from God's word.
Go to Deuteronomy, chapter number eight, Deuteronomy, chapter eight.
And I'm going to read for you, Matthew, chapter four, verse four.
The Bible says, but he answered and said, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God.
Now, this is a very ironic verse because Jesus is telling us we don't live just by bread alone,
just by our physical carnal bread, but we live by every word of God, every word of God.
But you know that that phrase, every word of God is taken out in this verse in the NIV.
It's not even there.
So in the NIV, it's just like, you know, but he answered and said, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone.
Thanks, Jesus. Thanks for letting us know that.
No, it just completely removes that one part.
You're there in Deuteronomy, chapter eight.
Look at verse number three.
And he humbled thee and suffered the hunger and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not.
Neither did thy fathers know that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
Now you see, that's powerful.
That's powerful to know that this story in the Old Testament about the manna from heaven
is a picture of the word of God and is a picture of Jesus Christ himself.
And here's the Lord Jesus Christ in the flesh.
And what is he quoting?
He's quoting this verse.
And that's powerful.
And that's that's full of a lot of meaning that we need to know that we need every single word of God.
How convenient is it that this Bible version takes that phrase out?
That's not a coincidence.
That is absolutely not a coincidence.
Second Timothy, I'll read for you.
Second Timothy, you can go to Matthew, Chapter 17.
Second Timothy, Chapter three, verse 16.
The Bible says all scripture is given by inspiration of God
and is profitable for doctrine.
That's truth for a proof.
That's telling you that you're wrong for correction.
That's telling you what's right for instruction and righteousness.
That's telling you how to get it right.
The Bible says that all scripture is profitable for all of those,
all of those things, all scripture.
I mean, think about this morning, you know, first Kings, Chapter 20.
We're talking about a story of two wicked kings, two unsaved kings.
Yet there's so much of that that we can apply to ourselves as saved Christians.
That's because all scripture is profitable, every single line.
And that's why Jesus said that we live by every word of God.
So any deletion of God's word is an offense to God
because it's not the preserved and perfect word of God.
I told you go to Matthew, Chapter 17.
Now I just want to show you where verses are just completely gone out of the NIV.
So I'm going to read this verse in the King James and just realize
that if you're reading your NIV that this verse just does not exist.
We're going to run through all of these in the New Testament.
Matthew, Chapter 17, Verse 21.
Well, let's go back into verse 20.
And Jesus said unto them, because of your unbelief, for verily I said unto you,
if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain,
remove hence to yonder place and it shall remove and nothing shall be impossible
unto you. What I'm about to read is not in the NIV.
How be it, this kind goeth not out, but by prayer and fasting. Gone.
Not even in the NIV. So he's explaining, you know, this man who is possessed with
just this extreme demon possession case, he's saying this kind goeth not out,
but by prayer and fasting. That might be some helpful, you know,
information to know if you have a family member that's possessed with devils,
or you know, to be praying and fasting for them. Well,
you don't have that information if you read the NIV. You're stuck.
Matthew chapter 18, let's flip the page. Matthew chapter 18, verse 11.
Here's a verse that just doesn't exist in the NIV for the son of man is come to
save that which was lost. Wow.
The whole reason that our Lord Jesus Christ came to this earth,
his entire earthly mission. Well, guess what? Just not even mentioned in the NIV.
That's wicked as hell. That's what it is. This is a false Bible version.
This version is garbage. It needs to be completely discarded.
It is trash. Matthew chapter number 23. Look at verse 14,
Matthew 23 verse 14. This does not exist in your NIV.
Well unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.
For you devour widow's houses and for a pretense make long prayer.
Therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. You know,
this is a great verse to rebuke the Roman Catholic church, you know,
who they get like to get up and just repeat these long prayers and just
repeating the same thing over and over and over and over and over again,
doing exactly what the scribes and the Pharisees were doing.
And Jesus Christ rebukes them. And he says, guess what?
You're going to receive the greater damnation. You know what else?
This verse is great for is this stupid doctrine that says all sin is equal.
Well, no, it's not because Jesus told these people that their damnation is
greater. Why is their damnation not the same as someone who just told a couple
lies in their life? Well, because not all sin is equal.
That's why. And because when you're devouring widow's houses and for a
pretense, making long prayer and being a fraud in the ministry and damning
people's souls to hell, you're going to receive the greater damnation.
But you'd never know that if you're reading an NIV.
You don't get that verse in the NIV. Mark chapter 7, flip over to Mark chapter
number 7.
How does this not bother people?
How do people who read the NIV learn about this stuff and it just not bother
them? I tell you what, it should bother them.
It should bother them or it tells you something about their heart.
Mark chapter number 7 verse 16.
Mark chapter 7 verse 16.
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
I guess Jesus just didn't say that according to the NIV because that's just
not there.
Mark chapter 9 verse 44.
Mark chapter 9 flip the page.
Mark chapter 9 verse 44.
Where there worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
Mark chapter 9 verse 46.
This is gone in your NIV.
Where there worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
Wow, you know that the doctrine of Hell.
That's a doctrine that the devil wants to attack because the devil
wants as many people going to Hell as humanly possible.
And guess what?
If he can just get people to not be afraid of Hell.
If he could just reduce the emphasis that the Bible is putting on
just the horrible nature of Hell, you know, maybe people wouldn't
care that much.
But when you're reading the King James Version and three times in
the matter of a couple verses, Jesus is telling you, hey, where
their worm dith not and the fire is not quenched, where their
worm dith not and the fire is not quenched, where their worm
dith not and the fire is not quenched.
Hey, he's emphasizing something there.
He's emphasizing the fact that Hell is eternal, that you are
going to be there alive forever and ever and ever.
Your worm will never die, meaning you will exist in Hell
forever and the fire is not quenched.
You will never experience relief, the pains and torments
of Hell, the fire will never, ever be quenched.
And the NIV takes two of those verses out.
That should bother people right there.
Mark chapter 11 verse 26, Mark chapter 11 verse 26.
This verse is gone in the NIV, but if you do not forgive,
neither will your father, which is in heaven, forgive
your trespasses.
Well, that sounds like an important verse.
Hey, I want to make sure that I'm in good fellowship
with the Lord, but the Bible says that if I don't forgive
men their trespasses, that God's not going to forgive me.
So I'm not going to be able to walk in fellowship with God
if I have all this bitterness and if I'm not being forgiving
to my brethren.
And that's why Jesus tells us, but if you do not forgive,
neither will your father, which is in heaven, forgive
your trespasses.
Jesus is giving you an incentive right here to forgive
your brethren.
But guess what?
You don't have that incentive in the NIV.
That verse doesn't exist in the NIV.
It is unbelievable.
Mark chapter 15, flip the page to Mark chapter 15, verse
28, Mark chapter 15, verse 28 and the scripture was
fulfilled, which saith and he was numbered with the
transgressors.
Now you may just read over that verse.
Hey, but this gives you some good confidence in the
Word of God.
This gives you some good confidence in the fact that
our Lord Jesus Christ came to fulfill the law.
He fulfilled every single aspect of the law, every
single prophecy Jesus Christ fulfilled perfectly.
And the Bible tells us that one of those prophecies
is fulfilled right here.
But you don't get that in NIV.
It's gone.
Mark chapter 16, Mark chapter 16.
Now when you're reading Mark chapter 16 in the NIV, you
read verse number eight and immediately under verse eight,
there's this big line and it says that the earliest and
most reliable manuscripts do not have the rest of this
chapter.
So you're reading Mark 16 verse 8.
Now the rest of this the NIV has just told you shouldn't
even be in the Bible.
Let's read it.
Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week,
he appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom he had
cast seven devils and she went and told them that had been
with him as they mourned and wept and they when they had
heard that he was alive and had been seen of her believe
not after that.
He appeared in another form unto two of them as they
walked and went into the country and they went and told
it unto the residue neither believed they them afterward.
He appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat and
abraded them with their unbelief and hardness of heart
because they believed not them which had seen him after
he was risen and he said unto them go ye into all the
world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved and he
that believeth not shall be damned and these signs shall
follow them that believe in my name shall they cast out
devils.
They shall speak with new tongues.
They shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly
thing it shall not hurt them.
They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them he was
received up into heaven and sat on the right hand of God
and they went forth and preached everywhere the Lord
working with them and confirming the word with
signs following Amen.
Everything that just came out of my mouth.
The NIV says should not be in the Bible, you know, just
those minor things like the resurrection of Jesus Christ
just those minor things, you know, just the minor thing
like the Great Commission going into all the world and
preach every creature.
I guess that just shouldn't have been in the book of
Mark.
You see are you starting to see why this such a garbage
translation yet the number one selling Bible in America
is this trash version of the Bible trash version of the
Bible.
Let's look at so I already told you Luke 4 for it takes
off but every word of God it takes off that part Luke
chapter 17.
Go back to Luke chapter 17 verse 36 Luke 17 Luke chapter
17 verse 36 and two men shall be in the field the one
shall be taken and the other left that verse is also just
completely gone Luke chapter 23 verse 17.
I'll just read for you.
These are just all the verses that are gone.
Luke 23 17 John 5 4 acts 8 37 acts 15 34 acts 24 7 acts
28 29 and Romans 16 24.
That's just a list of all the verses that are just completely
gone just completely gone.
Just you turn to those verses and they just do not exist in
your Bible.
And let me tell you when the Bible says that all scripture
is profitable for doctrine for correction for instruction
for all those things it is every single verse and a lot
of verses that we looked at.
Hey, we can learn some great doctrine from those verses.
How about the Great Commission?
How about the resurrection?
How about all the things we talked about?
Those are doctrines that can teach us a lot of good things
and that can exhort us to do a lot of good things.
Yet all of those are gone in the NIV and all those verses
that I just listed to you.
Those are only verses that are completely removed.
There's also a large list of verses where just part of the
verses are removed or words or phrases of those verses are
removed like Matthew 12 47 Matthew 21 44 Luke 22 44 Luke
22 43 the story of the woman taken in adultery like half of
that chapter is just gone.
It's just like it's unbelievable makes you frustrated when you
actually do read the Bible which most of these people who
buy NIVs obviously don't but for people who actually do read
the Bible and for people who actually do love the word of
God when all of a sudden all these stories are just gone all
these verses are gone that upsets you and that should upset
you because hey this is pure words Baptist Church. We believe
every word of God is pure and we believe that God preserved
it to every single generation. On top of this the NIV removes
over 64,000 words just 64,000 words you know words like
Jehovah words like hell is taken out a bunch. Hell still exists
in a few places in NIV but a lot of times the use of hell
is just gone a lot of times the word damnation is just taken
out over 64,000 words just taken and deleted from the
Bible. My question is how can I live by every word of God
like Jesus Christ told me to if I own NIV you cannot do it.
You cannot live by every word of God with the NIV therefore
the versions trash and it should be discarded. Revelation
22. I want to finish this point with the warning that God
gave people for removing from his word because we just saw
concrete proof that people are removing from God's word with
the NIV people absolutely are are tampering with and removing
from God's word. Revelation 22 verse 18. Jesus says for I
testify unto 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 place 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 his part out of
the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things
which are written in this book. So God gives a very strong a
very scary warning to those that would add to God's word by
saying he will add to them all the plagues of the book of
Revelation. If you read that book, that's a lot of plagues.
It's a lot of scary plagues. He says if you take anything out
of my word, he's going to take your name out of the book of
life and out of the holy city. So you know what all these
people that translated and that brought us the NIV not a
single one of them will you see in heaven? Not not a single one
not a single person that corrupts God's Word that takes
away from God's Word. Will you ever see saved because the
Bible says here that they're going to receive this curse
from God. That's a promise. That's just as much of a
promise from God as John 3 16 is a promise from God. He will
damn these people that damn his word like this. It's extremely
wicked number three why the NIV should be rejected number
three the NIV weakens the doctrine of the deity of Christ
go to John chapter number three John chapter number three.
It sounds like an important doctrine the doctrine that the
Lord Jesus Christ is not only the Son of God, but that he is
God that he is God in the flesh. That's what we read in
John chapter one in the beginning was the word and the
word was with God and the word was God and the word was made
flesh and dwelt among us. We know that the Lord Jesus Christ
is God but yet this is a doctrinal battle that we fight
all the time. We fight it with the Mormons. We fight it with
the Muslims. We fight it with Jehovah's Witnesses and hey we
need that sword of the spirit that we're talking about this
morning to be able to fight this battle and I don't want a
sword that is weakened on this doctrine in any way. John
chapter number three look at verse 13. Jesus to Nicodemus
says and no man hath ascended up to heaven but he that came
down from heaven even the son of man which is in heaven. So
here we have the Lord Jesus Christ in the flesh speaking to
Nicodemus on this earth and he says that he is also in heaven
at the same time. Now explaining me how someone can be
in heaven and on earth at the same time. They're God. That's
how Jesus Christ the Lord is omnipresent. He is God. And so
this is a very important verse is very powerful verse to
defend the deity of Jesus Christ. Well, here's what the
NIV says no one has ever gone into heaven except the one who
came from heaven the son of man. It completely just leaves
off the part about how the son of man is also in heaven right
now. And so you want to use that verse to show how Jesus
Christ is omnipresent how he's on the earth yet. He's in
heaven at the same time. You can't use that verse in the
NIV because it doesn't support that anymore. And so it is
weakening the doctrine of the deity of Christ first
Corinthians chapter number 10. Let's go over there first
Corinthians chapter number 10 and let's look at another one
here first Corinthians chapter number 10 look at verse number
9 neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted
and were destroyed of serpent. So this is referring to a story
in the Old Testament. Let's go to numbers real quick and keep
your finger there and go to numbers numbers chapter 21.
Notice how that verse said neither let us tempt who Christ
numbers chapter number 21 verse 5 the Bible says and the
people spake against God and against Moses. Wherefore have
you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness for
there is no bread. Neither is there any water in our soul
loathe this light bread and who the Lord said the capital L
capital O capital R capital D Jehovah God the Lord sent fiery
serpents among the people and they bit the people and much
people of Israel died with that verse in mind. Let's read
that again in First Corinthians chapter number 10 verse
nine and says neither let us tempt Christ as some of them
also tempted and were destroyed of serpents. So who was the
Lord who was one the one that they were actually tempting in
that story when it said that they tempted God they murmured
against God. They tempted the Lord capital L. O. R. D. Bible
says that they were tempting Christ. Why is that because
Jesus Christ is God. That's why because Jesus Christ was in
that story in Numbers chapter 21 and he's here in the New
Testament as well. But in the NIV it says we should not in
first Corinthians 10 9 it says we should not test the Lord as
some of them did and were killed by snakes. Now here's the
thing. Is this verse true. Yes in the Old Testament who was
it that they were tempting the Lord. Can you say that in the
New Testament that it was the Lord that they were tempting.
Absolutely. But the problem is it weakens the doctrine of the
deity of Christ. I like that the King James Version says
that they tempted Christ because there's no escaping who
was the Lord in Numbers chapter 21. It was Christ. If you
just say they're attempting the Lord and then the New Testament
also says they were tempting the Lord. Well, guess what?
Then you could say, oh, that's just talking about the Father
only. That's only talking about God the Father. That doesn't
prove that Jesus Christ is God. But when you realize that who
they were tempting in Numbers chapter 21 is Christ and the
Bible just definitively says neither let us tempt Christ.
You can't wiggle out of that one. It's a strong verse to
support the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ is God. You don't
have that in the NIV. It weakens that doctrine. First
Timothy chapter number three. Let's flip over there. Here's
another great verse arguably the greatest verse in the Bible
to defend the doctrine of the deity of Christ. First Timothy
chapter number three verse 16 and without controversy great is
the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. Who
was that? The Lord Jesus Christ justified in the Spirit seen
of angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the
world received up into glory. Who is the only person that
fits all of these, you know descriptions in this verse the
Lord Jesus Christ and this verse says that God was manifest
in the flesh. But in the NIV it says beyond all question the
mystery of godliness is great. He appeared in a body. He it
doesn't say God anymore. It just says he what is this? This
is called weakening the doctrine of the deity of Christ.
That's what this is doing and people get upset and say oh,
you know, the NIV doesn't attack the deity of Christ. It
still teaches the doctrine of the deity of Christ. And guess
what? There are verses in the NIV that you can find that
teach that Jesus is God. But the point is it is weakening
the doctrine of the deity of Christ. Why would you want that
Bible? Why would you be a Christian that says hey, I
believe Jesus is God. Yeah, I'll go ahead and buy that
Bible that has way less verses talking about Jesus being
God. Why? It's stupid. Why don't you just stick with the
King James Bible that says that they tempted Christ the
Lord. Not just they tempted God, they tempted God. Why don't
you stick with the King James Bible that says that God was
manifest in the flesh and that he was preached under the
Gentiles that he fit all those things. Not just he. It's God.
It's the Lord Jesus Christ that fits all of those descriptions.
Second Corinthians chapter number 11. Let's flip over
there. Second Corinthians chapter number 11 and look at
verse number three. The Bible says but I fear lest by any
means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his notice subtlety.
So your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that
is in Christ. Notice how the Bible says that the devil
corrupted Eve through his subtlety. That is how the devil
operates. The devil is not going to write a Bible version
that says this is the corrupt Word of God. I have been
attacking the deity of Jesus Christ. Please buy this Bible.
No, that's not how the devil works. The devil is subtle.
So if the devil just took out every single salvation verse
in the NIV if the devil just took out every single place in
the NIV where the Bible says that Jesus is God that would
not be a subtle translation would it that be like the message
Bible. Okay, the message Bible is not subtle. It's just like
the worst piece of trash you've ever read besides maybe the
Quran. Okay, but that's not subtle. The NIV is subtle because
the NIV just changes one little word just changes one little
phrase that can have an impact on so much doctrine and so
much meaning and guess what that is the mark of the devil.
That is the marks of subtlety of Satan.
That is how he operates, you know, what's a lot worse than
the Book of Mormon the NIV the NIV because the NIV, you know,
your average Christian is not going to be deceived by the
Book of Mormon.
Okay saying that, you know, if you're black, it's because
you're more sinful or something like that.
It's ridiculous.
It's wicked only only idiots become Mormons.
All right, but you know what sometimes your average Joe can
be confused by the NIV and can be deceived by the NIV.
It's a much more subtle version of the Bible and that is why
it's satanic.
That is why it is evil.
Number four, the NIV tampers with or waters down other
important doctrines.
Let's go to Acts chapter number eight.
Now, let's just go through some doctrines that are affected
that are tampered with because of the NIV's rendering of
these verses.
Acts chapter number eight.
The first doctrine that gets messed up with the NIV is the
doctrine of believers baptism.
What is believers baptism?
It's what we believe that a person should only be baptized
after they are saved not just baptized because you were raised
in church and your mom wanted you to get baptized not just
baptized when you were a baby and sprinkled by the Catholic
priest because that's what your parents wanted to do.
No, we believe that you need to be baptized after you completely
understand the gospel and have completely accepted the gospel
once you are saved.
That is what we believe.
Well in Acts chapter number eight, let's read verse number
35.
Then Philip opened his mouth.
He's preaching the gospel to someone who is reading the
Bible who didn't understand it and began at the same scripture
and preached unto him Jesus.
And as they went on their way they came unto a certain water
and the eunuch said see here is water.
What doth hinder me to be baptized?
So this person is not saved.
He's reading the Bible.
He doesn't understand it.
Philip comes preaches in the gospel and he says all right,
what's hindering me from being baptized?
I heard the gospel.
Philip said if thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest
and he answered and said I believe that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God.
So what happened?
He called upon the name of the Lord.
This is salvation for whosoever shall call upon the name of
the Lord shall be saved.
Guess what?
He is now a great candidate for baptism.
Isn't he now he can get baptized verse 38 and he
commanded the chariot to stand still and they went down both
into the water both Philip and the eunuch and he baptized
him and when they were come out of the water the spirit of
Lord Conaway Philip that the eunuch saw him no more and he
went on his way rejoicing the King James Bible is so
precise and has so much detail.
It's telling us exactly what happened.
Not only that he's saying he went all the way into the
water and then came out of the water.
You know that destroys your infant sprinkling baptism being
sprinkled by water is not baptism baptism is actually
being completely immersed in water.
But when you read the NIV verse 37 gone completely gone.
What doth hinder me to be baptized and they went and
baptized him and so it says in the NIV.
So what is it? It's the doctrine of believers baptism
just being tampered with altered weakened by the NIV.
This is a trash garbage translation.
What's another doctrine that the NIV weakens or tampers
with go to Hebrews chapter number four.
Here's an important doctrine salvation getting saved the
most important doctrine that there ever was Hebrews chapter
number four.
Let's read what the King James Bible says in verse number
one. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left of us
entering into his rest.
Any of you should seem to come short of it run to us was the
gospel preached as well as unto them.
But the word preached did not profit them not being mixed
with faith in them that heard it for we which have believed
do enter into rest.
As he said I've sworn in my wrath if they shall enter into
my rest although the works were finished from the foundation
of the world.
Here's what verse six says in the NIV.
Therefore since it still remains for some to enter into
rest and since those who formerly had the good news
proclaimed under them did not go in because of their
disobedience disobedience.
So the Bible is talking about how the gospel was preached
to us just like to them but it didn't profit them because
they didn't have faith in the gospel.
Then in verse 6 it says that they enter not in because of
unbelief and then NIV turns around and says they didn't
enter in because of their disobedience.
Now what is the number one false gospel that we hear time
and time and time after again?
It's a works salvation.
It's people getting up and saying oh yeah, I'm going to
heaven why well because I obey all of God's commandments
because I'm following God because I'm living a good life
because I'm obeying the Lord.
That's what everyone says out soul winning.
I wonder why maybe they read.
Hey Hebrews chapter 4 and NIV maybe the false prophets that
want to teach people this false doctrine are getting up behind
their pulpit and using an NIV.
Oh, yeah, that is exactly what you see.
That's exactly what you see.
And that's why most people you talk to who read the NIV are
unsaved.
Imagine that imagine that are there verses in the NIV where
you can find where it says believe alone for salvation.
Yes, the point is the devil is subtle.
That's the whole point.
All he has to do is weaken the doctrines.
He doesn't have to completely remove them if he completely
removes them.
You know what?
Honestly, it's not as deceiving of a translation.
The reason why it's wicked is because it's subtle because
you're changing.
They answered in because of unbelief to the entered in
because of disobedience.
These things are not the same.
My child does not get spanked for their unbelief.
They get spanked for their disobedience.
Okay, these are just not even close to the same thing.
And we know this but this is exactly what we're explaining
to people all the time.
Faith is way different than works way different.
They are not the same thing.
Here's another thing that the NIV corrupts go to Psalm
139 Psalm 139 Psalm 139 look at verse number 24.
Let's let's start reading in verse 21.
Do not I hate them.
Oh Lord that hate thee and I'm not aggrieved with those
that rise up against thee.
I hate them with perfect hatred.
I count them my enemies search me.
Oh God and know my heart try me and know my thoughts and
see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the
way everlasting.
So David he's talking about how he hates those that hate
God. He hates him with a perfect hatred and he is
humbly beseeching the Lord asking him Lord see if there
be any wicked way in me try me search my heart.
You know, let me know if there's anything wicked in me
but the NIV says in verse 24 see if there is any offensive
way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.
I got news for you being offensive is not being wicked.
Now this is exactly what the liberals want you to believe.
This is exactly the entire agenda of the left is to make
you think that being offensive is wicked and we can't have
anything in our society that's offensive because that's wicked.
And so the NIV Christian is praying God see if there's
anything offensive in me.
It's like how about Psalm 139?
How about this the chapter that you're actually praying that
from do not I hate them a Lord that hate thee what's funny
about that is that's not changed in the NIV yet.
If you told that someone who reads NIV that that's in the
Bible, they'd be shocked if they came to one of our church
services and heard that we were singing Psalm 139.
Oh, they'd be offended, wouldn't they?
They'd be offended and you know what?
Maybe some of them would even think that that's wicked because
their Bible says see if there be any offensive way in me.
This is this plays right into the devil's hand because anything
that's offensive in the Bible, you know, the false prophet
that just wants to tickle people's ears that just wants
to preach what people want to hear.
He could just say well, you know Psalm 139 tells me, you
know, search my heart and see if there be any offensive way
in me.
So I'm just going to avoid this chapter.
I'm not going to preach this topic.
I'm not going to say that I'm not going to ruffle feathers
on this area because I don't want there to be found in any
offensive way in me.
I just want to love.
I just want to preach about grace.
Can you see how you might be able to get that mentality if
you're reading an NIV?
It is unbelievable.
You know what?
What's so funny is that the Lord Jesus Christ was offensive
and Lord Jesus Christ is offensive to this day.
He offends people every single day.
Hey, we go out and we preach the gospel and we read to them
the Word of God and they're offended.
Oh, how dare you tell me that I can't make it to heaven on my own.
Don't you know how good I am?
What do you mean?
I need Jesus Christ to help me with it.
That's what they act like.
That's what they're saying when they reject the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Go to Matthew chapter 13 verse 57 Matthew chapter 15 verse 37.
You know what? When I found out that the NIV said this,
that's the whole reason I even preach the sermon because this one verse alone
just pissed me off and it just makes me mad to think that people are equating
offensive to being wicked today in our culture.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
Matthew chapter 13 verse 57.
And they were offended in him referring to Jesus Christ.
But Jesus said unto them, a prophet is not without honor,
save in his own country and in his own house.
And he did not many mighty works then because of their unbelief.
You know what? Jesus was offensive and people were offended
by his preaching time after time after time again.
And he says, "Hey, a prophet is not without honor except in his own house and in his own country."
The reason that they're not honoring me is because they're just familiar with me.
They knew me when I was growing up or whatever.
But you know what? They were offended by Jesus Christ.
And that doesn't mean that there was any wicked way found in our Savior.
No, being offensive has nothing to do with being wicked.
Matthew chapter 15, verse number 7, verse number 7,
"Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
'This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips;
but their heart is far from me.
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.'
And he called the multitude, and said unto them, 'Hear, and understand.
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileeth a man,
but that which cometh out of the mouth this defileeth a man.'
Then came his disciples, and said unto him,
'Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying?'
But he answered and said, 'Every plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.
Let them alone. They be blind leaders of the blind.
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.'"
I love just the rough nature of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He's preaching hard. He's rebuking people.
And his disciples say, "Hey, don't you know that they're offended?"
Now, your average soy milk soaked sissy pastor today who's drinking soy milk lattes before the service,
if he found out that he preached something that was offensive,
he would just be flipping over just to try to appease the situation
and try to explain himself away and fall over himself saying, "I didn't mean that. I didn't mean to offend anybody."
But Jesus offends someone, and he's just like, "Yep, they're blind leaders of the blind, and they're both going to fall into the ditch."
He didn't care that he was being offensive. He did not care one little bit that he was offending these people because what he was saying is the truth.
And us as Christians, when we read what the Bible says, every single line what we are reading is truth.
And it doesn't matter what part of the Bible people want to get offended at, I'm not afraid of them being offended.
I'm not sad or ashamed if people are offended at the Word of God. I'm just like, "Yep, they're blind leaders of the blind. Let them both fall into the ditch."
Do you think that I care when a bunch of atheists want to pull out verses of the Old Testament and twist them and try to attack the Word of God?
Hey, they're offended at the Bible. Guess what? "Great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them."
Maybe if you loved the Bible a little more, nothing would offend you to begin with.
We shouldn't be getting offended. And guess what? If we do get offended, it's because we're wicked.
Jesus Christ is offending people not because of any problem of his own. It's not because God needed to search Jesus' heart and see if there's anything wicked in him.
No, it's that there's wickedness in all of our hearts, and that's why we get offended from time to time.
I'll read for you Romans chapter 9 verse 33. The Bible says, "As it is written, 'Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense, and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.'"
It's like in NIV, you're searching to see if there's any offensive way in you, and the Bible literally calls Jesus Christ the rock of offense.
It's like, it's just, it's a clown show. This Bible, the NIV, is a clown show with all the wicked things that it says.
Here's another doctrine that the NIV tampers with, the doctrine that rapists should be put to death according to the word of God.
Deuteronomy chapter number 22. Flip over there to Deuteronomy chapter number 22.
Here's an offensive doctrine today for some people, the death penalty.
The left doesn't like the death penalty today. They're offended by the death penalty.
Should we ask God to search our hearts and find if there be any offensive way in us?
Let's see what Deuteronomy chapter number 22 says.
Deuteronomy 22, let's start reading in verse number 22.
"And ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of the city, and ye shall stone them with stones, that they die.
The damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor's wife.
So shalt thou put away evil from among you.
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man forced her, and lie with her, then the man only that lie with her shall die.
But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death.
For as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter.
For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found,
then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife.
And because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
So what do we see? In verse 22, we see the case of adultery.
And in adultery, the death penalty is laid out on both the man and the woman.
Then in verse 23 and 24, we see a man lay with a woman who is engaged, who is espoused to her husband,
and we see the death penalty put on both the man and the woman, because it's adultery, according to the Bible.
Then in verse 25 to 27, we see rape, and in the King James Bible, the only person that's put to death in that situation is the rapist, the only person.
Then in verse 28 and 29, we see the case of fornication, and the Bible says that when you commit fornication with a woman,
when you humbled her before you're married, the right thing to do is to marry her. That is the right thing to do.
Now, here's what atheists and people that hate God always say. They say, "Well, the Bible says that you have to marry your rapist."
Have you ever heard someone say this before? This is just a very common lie, just slander against the Word of God.
They'll say, "Oh, the Bible says you have to marry your rapist." What a wicked book.
Well, that actually is what the NIV says. In the NIV, it says,
"If a man happens to meet a virgin who has not pledged to her to be married, and rapes her, and they are discovered,
he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her.
He can never divorce her as long as he lives."
So according to the NIV, if a man, if a disgusting beast, decides to just take a woman and rape her,
and just to do one of the most despicable sins in the Bible to her,
he has to pay the father money and marry her, for he has violated her.
That doesn't even make any sense. Because you violated a woman, you have to marry her and you can never divorce her.
That is wicked as hell. That is absolutely disgusting. That is blasphemy to the Word of God.
You know, to sit there and say that the Bible is telling you, as a woman, that if you get raped,
if you're a victim, if you're a poor, innocent victim, that you have to marry the man that raped you?
It's sick. It's absolutely perverted. But yet, when you're reading the NIV, that's what it says.
Man, I can see how that could destroy someone's faith in the Word of God.
Someone who actually maybe does take the time to read the Bible through cover to cover,
and a young lady gets to Deuteronomy chapter number 22, and she's like, "Wow, God wants me to marry someone that rapes me?
Well, that's messed up. Man, I don't want to serve this God. I don't want to have anything to do with this God.
What a horrible thing. Can you see how someone's faith can be destroyed by tampering with the Word of God?
Maybe that's why Jesus Christ said that every single person that does this is going to hell.
Maybe that's why Jesus said when you remove from God's Word, He's going to make sure you burn in hell.
Because guess what? I guarantee you, people read this and think negatively of God because of it.
People read it and people use it to attack the Lord Jesus Christ when He did not say that.
What He said was that when you commit fornication with a woman, the best thing to do, the honorable thing to do is to marry them.
And hey, wouldn't it be great in America if instead of having all these families with no dads,
having all these kids growing up in foster care because their dad's a moron,
because their dad's a loser that wants to go knock up a bunch of women and not put a ring on it,
maybe if the country followed the Bible, we'd have a better society.
Maybe we'd have kids that actually are raised by loving fathers.
That's what this verse is teaching.
This verse would solve so many problems in our society,
yet these evil people want to use this verse to sling mud on the name of Jesus Christ.
You know why they're doing it? They're doing it because of the NIV, that's why.
They're not doing it from the King James Version.
Show me the King James Version of the Bible where it says a woman has to marry her rapist.
I'll be waiting forever. It's like that meme where you're the skeleton, still waiting.
Still waiting for someone to show me the King James Bible where it says that a victim has to marry their rapist.
I'll wait for eternity because it's not in there.
This version is absolute garbage. We must reject this version of the Bible.
It makes me mad because, like I said, you know what our family's reading? The NIV.
You know what people are reading? The NIV.
All these churches, all these mega churches, you know what most of them are using? The NIV.
And yet, it's full of all this deadly poison. All of this deadly poison.
Let's make some practical application of this sermon. Turn to Matthew chapter number seven.
Matthew chapter number seven. Let's read verse 15.
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
See, the NIV is not coming to you saying, "This is the book of Satan." No, it's in sheep's clothing.
It says Holy Bible on the front, but it's not the Holy Bible.
Verse 16, "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire."
And so the way we apply this is we need to judge a tree by its fruit today.
Look around, let's judge the fruit of the NIV. Where is the soul-winning church
that goes out and preaches people the gospel using the NIV? Show it to me.
Where is the church that goes and preaches the NIV and preaches hard against sin
and actually is changing people's lives with the Word of God?
Show me the church, you know, where they're reading the NIV,
where the pastor meets all of the biblical qualifications.
Maybe a few of them are there on that one, but not very often.
Half the time it's a women pastor, not even close to being qualified to being a pastor,
just on the basis of her sex alone.
Bible says if any man desire the office of a bishop, okay?
So judge the tree by its fruit.
What is the good fruit of the NIV?
I don't see it.
I don't see the soul winners with the NIV.
I don't see anything for God being done with the NIV.
I see the weakening down of our morals by weak churches that don't want to preach on sin.
I see the effeminizing of our men in churches that preach the NIV and are drinking soy milk lattes before service.
And the pastor has skinny jeans on.
That's what I see at the churches that preach the NIV.
I don't see women obeying their husbands at churches that preach for the NIV.
I don't see women being meek and quiet and wearing skirts and not going around dressing like a man and getting high and tight like they just enlisted in the Marine Corps.
Okay, you know what I see the real fruit of righteousness coming from? Churches that preach the King James Bible.
Churches that believe in the pure words of God. That's where we see the real fruit coming from.
Number two, we need to hate every false way. I'll read for you Psalm 119 verse 104.
The Bible says, "Through thy precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate every false way."
You know, if you're a Christian and you're reading the Word of God, you're getting to understand through God's precepts,
you love God's Word and you hear a sermon like this showing you this imposter that claims to be the Bible
and all the wicked things that are inside of it. If you don't hate that, there's something wrong with you.
There's something wrong with a saved Christian that knows all of this stuff about the NIV and then is just like,
"Well, I'm just going to keep reading the NIV anyways because it doesn't say these and those."
There's something wrong with that person. We need to hate every single false way.
When something is attacking the Word of God, when something is going contrary to the doctrines, to the commandments,
to the precepts of God, we should hate that false way.
It is not an ungodly thing to hate the false way.
No, if you love God, you will hate the false way.
And number three, we need to believe and teach every word of God.
The last place I'll have you turn is 2 Timothy chapter number four.
Verse one, the Bible says, "I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom.
Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season,
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine,
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears.
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables.
We need to be a church and we need to be families and we need to be men and women
that believe and teach every word of God.
Because here we are in the United States of America
and we've arrived at that day where they're turning away their ears from the truth.
We're arrived at that day where the number one selling Bible version in America is the NIV.
They've turned away their ears from the law.
But what are we supposed to do?
We're supposed to still preach the word, preach the word, not the fake imposter NIV.
Keep preaching the King James Bible.
Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
We need to continuously preach the things that our society finds offensive.
Whether it's in season or out of season, that is what God has called us to do.
And it doesn't matter how popular the NIV gets.
There's going to be a new version that comes out next month that's going to be gender neutral, I'm sure.
That hasn't already come out.
But we are going to continue to preach the Word, the real Word of God, and that is the King James Bible.
I'll finish with this verse, Hebrews 412, "For the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow,
and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
The Bible is a very powerful thing.
Hey, the Bible says Jesus Christ is the Word.
It's powerful, it is just completely powerful, and it's the only thing that is going to make a difference in people's lives is the Word of God.
It's the only thing.
You're not going to be changing people's lives with the NIV.
Actually, you'll be changing people's lives just for the negative.
They're going to read Deuteronomy chapter 22, and they're going to say, "You know, I don't want to be a Christian anymore."
That's the only way it's going to be changing people's lives.
So let's not be ashamed of the King James Bible.
Let's hold up and champion the King James Bible.
Someone asks us, "Hey, are you King James only? You better believe I'm King James only."
Here's a hundred reasons why the NIV is garbage.
Here's all these verses.
You know, these would be good stuff to memorize, to do some research on your own,
and just to have more available to your arsenal, out-soul winning, to be able to fight this false doctrine.
Let's pray.
Lord, thank you so much for this day and thank you for the King James Bible.
Thank you for being faithful to us and just preserving your word.
We love it so much, Lord, and I pray that every single person in here would actually
not just say they believe the King James Bible, but that they would read the King James Bible,
that they would memorize the King James Bible, and that we would live our lives by the King James Bible.
And I pray that you'd bless this church. I pray that you'd fill every person here with the Holy Spirit
and help us all to be better Christians. And in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.