WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:29.560 顆血 endlessly 15:59.560 --> 16:06.560 If you guys want to go ahead and find your hymnals, we're going to turn to page 397. 16:06.560 --> 16:14.560 It's page 397, Little as Much When God is in it. 16:14.560 --> 16:20.560 Page 397. 16:20.560 --> 16:34.560 In the harvest field now ripen, there's a work for all to do. 16:34.560 --> 16:42.560 Hark! the voice of God is calling to the harvest calling you. 16:42.560 --> 16:50.560 Little as much when God is in it, labor not for wealth or fame. 16:50.560 --> 16:58.560 There's a crown and you can win it if you'll go in Jesus' name. 16:58.560 --> 17:05.560 Does the place your call to labor seem so small and little known? 17:06.560 --> 17:13.560 It is great if God is in it and he'll not forget his own. 17:13.560 --> 17:21.560 Little as much when God is in it, labor not for wealth or fame. 17:21.560 --> 17:28.560 There's a crown and you can win it if you go in Jesus' name. 17:29.560 --> 17:36.560 Are you laid aside from service, body worn from toil and care? 17:36.560 --> 17:44.560 You can still be in the battle, in the sacred place of prayer. 17:44.560 --> 17:52.560 Little as much when God is in it, labor not for wealth or fame. 17:52.560 --> 17:59.560 There's a crown and you can win it if you'll go in Jesus' name. 17:59.560 --> 18:07.560 When the conflict here is ended and our race on earth is run, 18:07.560 --> 18:15.560 he will say to all the faithful, welcome home my child well done. 18:15.560 --> 18:23.560 Little as much when God is in it, labor not for wealth or fame. 18:23.560 --> 18:31.560 There's a crown and you can win it if you'll go in Jesus' name. 18:45.560 --> 18:50.560 Amen. 18:50.560 --> 18:55.560 Alright, if you want to take your hymnals we're going to turn to page number 230. 18:55.560 --> 19:04.560 Page number 230, heavenly sunlight. 19:04.560 --> 19:08.560 Page number 230. 19:08.560 --> 19:26.560 Walking in sunlight all of my journey over the mountains through the deep veil. 19:26.560 --> 19:35.560 Jesus has said I'll never forsake thee, promise divine that never can fail. 19:35.560 --> 19:45.560 Heavenly sunlight, heavenly sunlight, flooding my soul with glory divine. 19:45.560 --> 19:55.560 Hallelujah, I am rejoicing, singing his praises, Jesus is mine. 19:55.560 --> 20:05.560 Shadows around me, shadows above me, never conceal my savior and God. 20:05.560 --> 20:15.560 He is the light and him is no darkness, ever I'm walking close to his side. 20:15.560 --> 20:25.560 Heavenly sunlight, heavenly sunlight, flooding my soul with glory divine. 20:25.560 --> 20:35.560 Hallelujah, I am rejoicing, singing his praises, Jesus is mine. 20:35.560 --> 20:45.560 In the bright sunlight, ever rejoicing, pressing my way to mansions above, 20:45.560 --> 20:55.560 singing his praises, gladly I'm walking, walking in sunlight, sunlight of love. 20:55.560 --> 21:05.560 Heavenly sunlight, heavenly sunlight, flooding my soul with glory divine. 21:05.560 --> 21:15.560 Hallelujah, I am rejoicing, singing his praises, Jesus is mine. 21:15.560 --> 21:21.560 Alright, excellent singing everybody. At this time we will have our announcements. 21:21.560 --> 21:30.560 Good morning everyone. The verse of the week is John 3 verse 17. 21:30.560 --> 21:36.560 John 3 verse 17. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, 21:36.560 --> 21:42.560 but that the world through him might be saved. John 3 verse 17. 21:42.560 --> 21:45.560 Service time is 10.30 this morning, 3.30 this afternoon. 21:45.560 --> 21:50.560 Soul winning time will be 1.00 p.m. today and yesterday at 12.30. 21:50.560 --> 21:56.560 Salvation reports so far for April have been 16 and March was 32. 21:56.560 --> 22:01.560 For a total of 69 for the year so far. Attendance is down below. 22:01.560 --> 22:04.560 Currently we're going through a Bible memory challenge. 22:04.560 --> 22:10.560 We have a little less than a month now to memorize and recite 1 Corinthians chapter 13. 22:10.560 --> 22:18.560 Alright, today blessing. Brother Ramon has traveled here to preach for us this morning. 22:18.560 --> 22:20.560 We're really glad to have him from Vancouver. 22:20.560 --> 22:25.560 And it was a great fellowship last night and her soul winning went well yesterday as well. 22:25.560 --> 22:29.560 So just great to have you come visit us brother. 22:29.560 --> 22:34.560 May 2nd will be the ladies fellowship for Mother's Day. 22:34.560 --> 22:39.560 And just please let Miss Kylie know she's planning the food activity for Mother's Day. 22:39.560 --> 22:43.560 She's planning the food activities and it will be right after soul winning. 22:43.560 --> 22:47.560 I apologize, is that next? Is it very next week? 22:47.560 --> 22:49.560 Week after next. 22:49.560 --> 22:55.560 So coming up, but just to remind all the other men, Mother's Day is coming up. 22:55.560 --> 22:59.560 So it is next week. 22:59.560 --> 23:02.560 What about the scene at the EU, brother? 23:02.560 --> 23:07.560 Souls first, alright. We are a soul winning first church, alright. 23:07.560 --> 23:11.560 Keep focused on the prize. Thank you ladies. 23:11.560 --> 23:18.560 Now, week after next is May 8th, which will be the soul winning marathon. 23:18.560 --> 23:20.560 That's the CWU. 23:20.560 --> 23:24.560 That's in Ellensburg and it's going to be a start time of 10.45. 23:24.560 --> 23:29.560 And I didn't look up the travel, but I do believe it's like two and a half hours or so from here. 23:29.560 --> 23:33.560 Pending how much further you live in each direction. 23:33.560 --> 23:37.560 But just something to plan for if you want to join out there. 23:37.560 --> 23:41.560 And if you are going, please let brother Remy know just so he can organize. 23:41.560 --> 23:49.560 So I know Western State was very receptive, so hopefully Eastern State is as well. 23:49.560 --> 23:55.560 Coming up, just right after that, and that will be a Friday. 23:55.560 --> 24:00.560 Just remember, like when we do soul winning trips, a lot of times it's Saturday, but because it's a college, 24:00.560 --> 24:05.560 we don't want to go there on the weekend because, you know, hey, the workers there need to be saved too, 24:05.560 --> 24:08.560 but let's try to actually find when the people are there. 24:08.560 --> 24:11.560 So that is a Friday, just to remember. 24:11.560 --> 24:15.560 May 10th is Mother's Day. 24:15.560 --> 24:17.560 And go ahead and invite guests to come. 24:17.560 --> 24:21.560 We're going to have a special service message for that day. 24:21.560 --> 24:26.560 So just go out and try to invite people specifically for that service. 24:26.560 --> 24:33.560 Kids, your memory verse for these next couple weeks is John 15 verse 2. 24:33.560 --> 24:35.560 John 15 verse 2. 24:35.560 --> 24:40.560 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 24:40.560 --> 24:46.560 And if you can recite that to Miss Kylie, you will receive the reward of a piece of candy. 24:46.560 --> 24:49.560 So kids, that's your memory verse for this time. 24:49.560 --> 24:52.560 Rules are all familiar. 24:52.560 --> 24:56.560 Everyone here comes from sister churches, all relatively the same. 24:56.560 --> 25:00.560 And then donation information is down below. 25:00.560 --> 25:04.560 We have no more birthdays this month or anniversaries. 25:04.560 --> 25:11.560 If you have any other prayer requests, please just let the Thompson's know and they will add it to the prayer request. 25:11.560 --> 25:12.560 But with that, let's join. 25:22.560 --> 25:24.560 Thank you. 25:52.560 --> 25:54.560 Thank you. 26:22.560 --> 26:34.560 All right. 26:34.560 --> 26:41.560 If you want to take your Bibles or your Psalm books and turn to Psalm 139. 26:41.560 --> 26:43.560 That's Psalm 139. 26:43.560 --> 26:49.560 And if you don't have a Psalm book in front of you and you would like one, I have a couple up here that I can hand out. 26:49.560 --> 26:57.560 Psalm 139. 26:57.560 --> 27:06.560 Psalm 139 beginning in verse number 19. 27:06.560 --> 27:09.560 We will sing it out on the first. 27:09.560 --> 27:15.560 Surely thou will slay the wicked. 27:15.560 --> 27:21.560 Surely thou will slay the wicked, O God. 27:21.560 --> 27:27.560 Depart from me, therefore ye bloody men. 27:27.560 --> 27:32.560 Depart from me, therefore ye bloody men. 27:32.560 --> 27:38.560 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee. 27:38.560 --> 27:43.560 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee. 27:43.560 --> 27:49.560 And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee. 27:49.560 --> 27:54.560 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee. 27:54.560 --> 28:00.560 For they speak against thee wickedly. 28:00.560 --> 28:06.560 For they speak against thee wickedly. 28:06.560 --> 28:12.560 And thine enemies take thy name in vain. 28:12.560 --> 28:17.560 And thine enemies take thy name in vain. 28:17.560 --> 28:23.560 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee. 28:23.560 --> 28:28.560 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee. 28:28.560 --> 28:34.560 And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee. 28:34.560 --> 28:40.560 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee. 28:40.560 --> 28:46.560 I hate them with perfect hatred. 28:46.560 --> 28:52.560 I hate them with perfect hatred. 28:52.560 --> 28:58.560 I count them mine enemies. 28:58.560 --> 29:03.560 I count them mine enemies. 29:03.560 --> 29:08.560 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee. 29:08.560 --> 29:14.560 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee. 29:14.560 --> 29:20.560 And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee. 29:20.560 --> 29:25.560 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee. 29:26.560 --> 29:33.560 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee. 29:33.560 --> 29:35.560 Alright, excellent singing everybody. 29:35.560 --> 29:37.560 With apology please, pray for the offering. 29:37.560 --> 29:39.560 Amen. 30:07.560 --> 30:30.560 Welcome everybody to Shur Foundation Baptist Church. 30:30.560 --> 30:35.560 If you could go ahead and take your Bibles and turn to the book of Jude. 30:35.560 --> 30:41.560 The book of Jude will be our chapter this morning. 30:41.560 --> 30:46.560 And as always here at our church we read the entire chapter before the preaching. 30:46.560 --> 30:50.560 Jude, starting in verse 1, the Bible reads, 30:50.560 --> 30:55.560 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, 30:55.560 --> 31:02.560 to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called, 31:02.560 --> 31:07.560 mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied, beloved. 31:07.560 --> 31:11.560 When I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, 31:11.560 --> 31:18.560 it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith 31:18.560 --> 31:21.560 which was once delivered unto the saints. 31:21.560 --> 31:28.560 For there are certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, 31:28.560 --> 31:38.560 ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. 31:38.560 --> 31:42.560 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, 31:42.560 --> 31:50.560 how that the Lord having saved the people out of the land of Egypt afterward destroyed them that believed not. 31:50.560 --> 31:56.560 And the angels, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, 31:56.560 --> 32:03.560 he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 32:03.560 --> 32:08.560 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner, 32:08.560 --> 32:13.560 giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh, 32:13.560 --> 32:18.560 are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 32:18.560 --> 32:26.560 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 32:26.560 --> 32:32.560 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, 32:32.560 --> 32:39.560 durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 32:39.560 --> 32:43.560 But these speak evil of those things which they know not, 32:43.560 --> 32:49.560 but what things they know naturally as brute beasts, and those things they corrupt themselves, 32:49.560 --> 32:57.560 woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, 32:57.560 --> 33:00.560 and perished in the gainsaying of Cory. 33:00.560 --> 33:07.560 These are spots in your feast of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear, 33:07.560 --> 33:13.560 clouds they are without water, carried about of winds, trees whose fruit withereth, 33:13.560 --> 33:19.560 without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, raging waves of the sea, 33:19.560 --> 33:26.560 foaming out their own shame, wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. 33:26.560 --> 33:32.560 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, 33:32.560 --> 33:39.560 Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, 33:39.560 --> 33:47.560 and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, 33:47.560 --> 33:54.560 and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 33:54.560 --> 33:59.560 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts, 33:59.560 --> 34:07.560 and their mouths speaketh great swelling words, having men's person in admiration because of advantage. 34:07.560 --> 34:15.560 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 34:15.560 --> 34:23.560 how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 34:23.560 --> 34:29.560 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. 34:29.560 --> 34:36.560 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 34:36.560 --> 34:44.560 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life, 34:44.560 --> 34:50.560 and of some having compassion making a difference, and of others, save with fear, 34:50.560 --> 34:55.560 pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. 34:55.560 --> 35:03.560 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory, 35:03.560 --> 35:16.560 with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. 35:16.560 --> 35:19.560 Brother Remy, could you pray for the service? 35:19.560 --> 35:38.560 Amen. 35:38.560 --> 35:44.560 Amen. Well, it is an honor to be invited over here to see all the brethren in Spokane, 35:44.560 --> 35:48.560 and even somebody I met over in Idaho, I think it was, right? Idaho. 35:48.560 --> 35:52.560 And the family here visiting, that's really cool. 35:52.560 --> 35:58.560 We really miss Brother Remy. I know I want to thank Pastor, obviously, too, for giving us men an opportunity to preach. 35:58.560 --> 36:02.560 You know, we don't take it lightly. I know all you men that preach probably feel the same way. 36:02.560 --> 36:08.560 We miss him. A very faithful man, very faithful family that we love very much. 36:08.560 --> 36:16.560 And I know Pastor misses you all as well. But good to be here. You're there in Jude chapter 1. 36:16.560 --> 36:20.560 Well, it's the only chapter, but look at verse 1. It says, 36:20.560 --> 36:26.560 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, 36:26.560 --> 36:32.560 and preserved in Jesus Christ and called, Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. 36:32.560 --> 36:36.560 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you the commons of the common salvation, 36:36.560 --> 36:41.560 it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith 36:41.560 --> 36:46.560 which was once delivered unto the saints. And the title of my sermon is, 36:46.560 --> 36:51.560 Contend for the Faith, KJV Only. Contend for the Faith, KJV Only. Let's pray. 36:51.560 --> 36:54.560 Heavenly Father, I thank you, Lord, for this great church here, Lord. 36:54.560 --> 36:58.560 I pray that you bless it and bless all the members and visitors as well, Lord, 36:58.560 --> 37:04.560 and just help this church to grow in you and just get out there and preach the gospel to the lost in this area. 37:04.560 --> 37:07.560 I pray that you fill me with your spirit and help me to preach this message you put on my heart. 37:07.560 --> 37:09.560 In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen. 37:09.560 --> 37:13.560 So I know this verse isn't necessarily talking about biblical preservation, 37:13.560 --> 37:20.560 but I still liked it because, you know, for one, I think it is a topic we really do need to contend for the faith on. 37:20.560 --> 37:26.560 I think we could kind of get in a little bit of a, you know, our own echo chamber where we understand that, like, 37:26.560 --> 37:29.560 we're KJV only, right? Like, we don't think too much about it. 37:29.560 --> 37:34.560 When you get out into the world, though, you see that people, they scoff at this idea. 37:34.560 --> 37:37.560 They're really resistant to this idea. They think we're weird. 37:37.560 --> 37:42.560 They think that it's even cultish or that, like, you know, we're just a bunch of weirdos. 37:42.560 --> 37:46.560 They make you feel that way. And it boggles my mind. 37:47.560 --> 37:54.560 It boggles my mind that we could believe in a God that wouldn't be powerful enough to preserve his word. 37:54.560 --> 37:58.560 And, you know, in this verse, it says we're preserved in Jesus Christ, right? 37:58.560 --> 38:00.560 So we're preserved in Jesus Christ. 38:00.560 --> 38:03.560 And the Bible says in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. 38:03.560 --> 38:07.560 So the Bible is Jesus Christ. The word is Jesus Christ. 38:07.560 --> 38:12.560 We're preserved in him. We need it to get saved. We need it for everything that we do. 38:12.560 --> 38:15.560 Why would he not preserve it? It makes zero sense. 38:15.560 --> 38:17.560 And, you know, it makes me mad. 38:17.560 --> 38:20.560 But it was a topic that I was ignorant to. 38:20.560 --> 38:22.560 When I first got saved, I had no idea about it. 38:22.560 --> 38:28.560 Actually, I brought it up many times, and Bobby is the one who brought up the idea of KJV only to me. 38:28.560 --> 38:33.560 I had no idea, and I was actually a little bit like, I wasn't resistant to it because I was thinking, 38:33.560 --> 38:37.560 I better look into this, because these things were coming to my mind, how when I first was seeking God, 38:37.560 --> 38:42.560 I went to a Christian bookstore to buy a Bible, and I was blown away by all the different versions. 38:42.560 --> 38:48.560 And I'm like, I didn't even buy one. I walked in, and I'm like, dude, I went and asked the pastor, air quotes, 38:48.560 --> 38:50.560 because you find that out later. 38:50.560 --> 38:55.560 But I was like, why are there so many versions of the Bible? I thought there was one Bible. 38:55.560 --> 38:57.560 I literally thought there was one Bible. 38:57.560 --> 39:02.560 We had a KJV Bible in our house, and I didn't understand it, so I didn't read it very much. 39:02.560 --> 39:07.560 I was just like anybody else, you kind of get through Genesis, and then you're like, er, er. 39:07.560 --> 39:09.560 You know, like, you just stop. 39:10.560 --> 39:15.560 But his answer was just really, I didn't like, so it didn't sit well with me. 39:15.560 --> 39:19.560 So when she brought it up, I was just like, it kind of came out of nowhere, 39:19.560 --> 39:24.560 because she just kind of hammered me with what was wrong with this church all of a sudden. 39:24.560 --> 39:28.560 So it was just like all of a sudden, she couldn't take it anymore. 39:28.560 --> 39:33.560 And then she gave me this, she taught me, showed me about that, so I was a little kind of like, 39:33.560 --> 39:37.560 she's teaching me, I was just like a little prideful. 39:37.560 --> 39:40.560 You know, I'm like, oh man, she's showing me up here. 39:40.560 --> 39:44.560 But then I looked into it, I'm like, wow, like, there's a lot to this. 39:44.560 --> 39:47.560 And then it just made sense, all of it made sense. 39:47.560 --> 39:50.560 But so many people do not believe it. 39:50.560 --> 39:56.560 And you know, we should never be ashamed, we should never back down on this KJV-only stance. 39:56.560 --> 40:00.560 And it's really, I think, one of the most important doctrines out there. 40:00.560 --> 40:04.560 I mean, we speak English, we should be KJV-only. 40:04.560 --> 40:10.560 And the critics, they say, they do give lip service to the Bible being infallible and inspired, 40:10.560 --> 40:13.560 but it's only in the originals, right? 40:13.560 --> 40:15.560 So only the originals. 40:15.560 --> 40:19.560 God wasn't powerful enough to be able to, even though He made language, 40:19.560 --> 40:26.560 make sure that it got translated correctly or whatever for the people that needed it. 40:26.560 --> 40:28.560 It's ridiculous to me. 40:28.560 --> 40:34.560 It just flies against all the, so many Bible verses, it's not even funny. 40:34.560 --> 40:40.560 And you ask them, what are your verses to support this idea that God would just lose His Word? 40:40.560 --> 40:42.560 There isn't any. 40:42.560 --> 40:46.560 There isn't any verses that would be able to say, well, hey, you know, 40:46.560 --> 40:52.560 trust in man's wisdom over God because he might lose this or this might not be preserved. 40:52.560 --> 40:55.560 It's actually exactly the opposite. 40:55.560 --> 41:00.560 And, you know, they'll tell you that the KJVs also underwent revisions 41:00.560 --> 41:03.560 or that it has an archaic language, right? 41:03.560 --> 41:10.560 It hinders modern, stupid people who don't speak English well from being able to understand it. 41:10.560 --> 41:15.560 And I shouldn't say stupid people, but, you know, children can understand the Bible in our churches, 41:15.560 --> 41:20.560 so it makes no sense to say that just because society is trying to dumb down the English language, 41:20.560 --> 41:22.560 that we should also follow suit. 41:22.560 --> 41:27.560 And really they've been saying it since the Bible was around anyway, you know, 41:27.560 --> 41:31.560 because back in the day people were going to work in fields and people weren't necessarily going to school 41:31.560 --> 41:36.560 and they had to learn in different ways and the Bible was a way for people to actually get smart, 41:36.560 --> 41:39.560 you know, to study and learn the English language. 41:39.560 --> 41:40.560 And it's a beautiful book. 41:40.560 --> 41:42.560 It's a beautiful, accurate translation. 41:42.560 --> 41:47.560 And we know that, you know, so hopefully this doesn't turn too much into a lecture about that 41:47.560 --> 41:52.560 because I'm not trying to preach the preserved Bible or the New World Order Bible versions 41:52.560 --> 41:55.560 of these great documentaries that have been put out, 41:55.560 --> 42:01.560 but I do think that it's something that we should study up on and be able to give an answer to people 42:01.560 --> 42:07.560 why we believe so strongly that, you know, you should, if you speak English, 42:07.560 --> 42:10.560 you should only read the King James Bible, you know. 42:10.560 --> 42:14.560 And they say, oh, you create unnecessary division. 42:14.560 --> 42:19.560 Well, Jesus said, suppose that I have come to get peace on earth, I tell you, nay, but rather division. 42:19.560 --> 42:22.560 And this is a topic where you should be divided on. 42:22.560 --> 42:27.560 You shouldn't just accept it, you know, and really I had to, you know, tell my dad in a hard way 42:27.560 --> 42:31.560 and don't worry, he won't watch this sermon so it won't turn into like some cringe thing. 42:31.560 --> 42:37.560 But, you know, he gave all the family these new NIV, you know, study Bibles on top of, 42:37.560 --> 42:40.560 on top of being NIV, but it's also a study Bible. 42:40.560 --> 42:44.560 So you got to get some heretic telling you how to interpret it on top of that. 42:44.560 --> 42:46.560 And he gave it to all the kids. 42:46.560 --> 42:48.560 He gave it to all the family. 42:48.560 --> 42:51.560 He just bought this massive, you know, like stockpiled of them 42:51.560 --> 42:54.560 and just handed them out for Christmas or something like that. 42:54.560 --> 42:57.560 And I had to tell him I'm not giving those out, you know. 42:57.560 --> 43:01.560 I had to tell people, you should throw that away, you know, like, and I had tried to tell him. 43:01.560 --> 43:07.560 And, you know, this is where the understanding of why we believe what we do, you know, 43:07.560 --> 43:13.560 and just having charity and being able to do it without getting too upset is probably helpful, you know. 43:13.560 --> 43:18.560 Sometimes, you know, it's hard to speak to somebody like your dad when he's, you know, raised you. 43:18.560 --> 43:24.560 And, you know, it's like it's hard to even come at him and if he disagrees with you to kind of get through to him. 43:24.560 --> 43:27.560 But it sort of came to a head for me there. 43:27.560 --> 43:35.560 But it's ridiculous to think that if Jesus Christ is the Word of God, that God would have lost his son. 43:35.560 --> 43:41.560 You know, like, it makes no sense, you know, like, I know you've all been, people have been to Disneyland before. 43:41.560 --> 43:47.560 It's like, yeah, sorry, you know, God, you know, God, detention God, you left Jesus in Toontown or something. 43:47.560 --> 43:52.560 It's like, it's like God, just because I lose my keys every time I drive almost 43:52.560 --> 43:58.560 and I have to ask my wife where they are and she could attest to that doesn't mean God is like me, right. 43:58.560 --> 44:01.560 This is where people think God is like us. 44:01.560 --> 44:09.560 God is like, it's just this ridiculous line of thinking that, you know, it's a humanist type of an approach where, you know, 44:09.560 --> 44:15.560 they try to ascribe with like God to being like us or something or you just want a God in their own image. 44:15.560 --> 44:22.560 But, you know, thousands of time in the Bible, it testifies to the authority of his words, like, you know, speaking this, 44:22.560 --> 44:29.560 speaking to the spirit of the Lord coming upon the prophet or says the Lord has spoken it, thus say it the Lord, you know, 44:29.560 --> 44:34.560 like even the last book of the Bible says, right, for these words are true and faithful. 44:34.560 --> 44:37.560 And those are two separate things, true and faithful. 44:37.560 --> 44:40.560 And, you know, I'm going to speak to that a little down the road there. 44:40.560 --> 44:44.560 They might go together, but truth and faithfulness are two different things. 44:44.560 --> 44:49.560 The third verse of the Bible says, and God said, let there be light. 44:49.560 --> 44:57.560 And even a lot of Christians, you know, that don't believe in KJV only will believe that God created everything with the words of his mouth. 44:57.560 --> 45:07.560 Right. They'll believe that he did, you know, made the incredible like diversity that we see and all the complexity that they're finding out more and more by through through actual science that, 45:07.560 --> 45:09.560 well, this is looking a little sketchy for Big Bang. 45:09.560 --> 45:12.560 Right. They will believe that. 45:12.560 --> 45:16.560 But but they just get stuck on this idea that God could preserve his word. 45:16.560 --> 45:19.560 You know, it doesn't make any sense. 45:19.560 --> 45:23.560 And, you know, I got the idea to preach this. 45:24.560 --> 45:33.560 You know, I probably have too many notes, but it pastor Oz, he had recommended a book called Pure Words or something on his Facebook. 45:33.560 --> 45:36.560 And so I was like, you know, I'm going to study a little bit more into this. 45:36.560 --> 45:39.560 I've only got about a quarter of the way through the book, but it's a good book. 45:39.560 --> 45:46.560 It's a good book that does give you a lot of details that you might not have or maybe that weren't even in that documentary. 45:46.560 --> 45:52.560 But, you know, I'm going to just give some of the things in there that I thought were very interesting. 45:52.560 --> 45:55.560 And you all might know some of this stuff, too, already. 45:55.560 --> 45:58.560 Anyone that like maybe you're not like me. 45:58.560 --> 46:07.560 I mean, I once I once I learned about the King James only stance and got enough information to say, OK, I believe that, you know, I didn't do too much more. 46:07.560 --> 46:09.560 You know, I'm just like, OK, I believe that move on. 46:09.560 --> 46:11.560 It's like, you know, let's preach the gospel. 46:11.560 --> 46:12.560 Let's do certain things. 46:12.560 --> 46:15.560 So I didn't like I don't know some of these details. 46:15.560 --> 46:18.560 And again, I don't want to turn this into where I'm just giving you all this. 46:19.560 --> 46:24.560 But like basically like there was this rise of higher criticism against the received text. 46:24.560 --> 46:32.560 And, you know, it had stood uncontested and preserved like the Bible says it would be, you know, for almost like 1900 years. 46:32.560 --> 46:39.560 And, you know, high criticism, rationalism, spiritual humanism arose out of Europe and infiltrated Great Britain. 46:39.560 --> 46:41.560 You know, and humanism is just this idea. 46:41.560 --> 46:46.560 It's this philosophical and supposedly ethical stance that places humans above God. 46:46.560 --> 46:56.560 Essentially, it says that we have the ability to figure things out ourselves through science, through revelation, through, you know, whatever, just deciding what is best for society. 46:56.560 --> 47:13.560 So instead of thus say it, the Lord, it's the thus say it, Brother Travis, thus say it, you know, Brother Jason, you know, thus says, you know, whoever just insert, you know, and if you disagree with one another, then collectively, you know, we could figure out what's best for society. 47:13.560 --> 47:26.560 But what happens is that morality becomes fluid, you know, it becomes changing with the times, you know, if maybe this generation thought something was good, you know, and now they think it's bad or the other way around, then we just we just mold with the time. 47:26.560 --> 47:29.560 So instead of I am the Lord, I change not. 47:29.560 --> 47:31.560 It's like you could just change to whatever you want. 47:31.560 --> 47:33.560 You could be blown with every wind of doctrine. 47:33.560 --> 47:40.560 You just create a God that is in your own eyes because they say they don't like necessarily aren't against God. 47:40.560 --> 47:42.560 But as long as it's a God in their own image, that's a God. 47:42.560 --> 47:44.560 That's essentially what it boils down to. 47:44.560 --> 47:50.560 They'll believe that you can believe in a God as long as the God we all agree with, you know. 47:50.560 --> 47:56.560 And so sadly, a lot of Christians have turned into humanists basically because that's exactly what they do. 47:56.560 --> 47:59.560 And what they don't understand is these Bibles. 47:59.560 --> 48:01.560 They that's what that's what they do. 48:01.560 --> 48:07.560 They allow room for too much interpretation, too much difference, too much contradiction. 48:07.560 --> 48:17.560 And they'll give humanists like we'll say that, you know, you should base things off of what human beings can figure out, what we can find through the revelation and this and that. 48:17.560 --> 48:19.560 But it's a total lie anyways. 48:19.560 --> 48:27.560 They're total hypocrites because anyone who would believe the Big Bang theory and think that that is actual science, it's not been proven. 48:27.560 --> 48:29.560 It takes more faith, I think, than what we believe. 48:29.560 --> 48:31.560 You know, Jesus Christ was here on this earth. 48:31.560 --> 48:33.560 We're in 2026 because of him. 48:33.560 --> 48:41.560 You know, hundreds of witnesses, you know, but yet this is something that completely contradicts all of science that everything came from nothing. 48:41.560 --> 48:43.560 They readily believe that. 48:43.560 --> 48:46.560 Yet supposedly they believe in just the facts. 48:46.560 --> 48:47.560 It's garbage. 48:47.560 --> 48:48.560 They don't believe in the facts. 48:48.560 --> 48:51.560 They don't do what's best for society as a whole. 48:51.560 --> 48:56.560 I mean, it's there's just tons of things that that are against all of that, you know. 48:56.560 --> 49:00.560 And so there was this German scholar, Konstantin von Tiskindorf. 49:00.560 --> 49:04.560 So he actually began a quest to find old manuscripts of the Bible. 49:04.560 --> 49:06.560 And that was his ambition. 49:06.560 --> 49:09.560 That was his whole goal was to find these manuscripts, you know. 49:09.560 --> 49:26.560 And, you know, if you're against the Bible because he ascribed to these philosophies that I brought forth there, you know, and was against the Bible, against, you know, like they start questioning things about, you know, the miracles or, you know, the prophecies or, you know, just the very validity of God's word. 49:26.560 --> 49:28.560 You know, they're questioned all those things. 49:28.560 --> 49:31.560 And he had a quest to find these manuscripts. 49:31.560 --> 49:34.560 So, you know, and you all know some of this story, too. 49:34.560 --> 49:36.560 I would say most of you probably do. 49:36.560 --> 49:38.560 But he was against the Bible. 49:38.560 --> 49:41.560 And the very intent of his work was flawed. 49:41.560 --> 49:47.560 He was convinced all believers needed to abandon what had been passed down for generations as the word of God. 49:47.560 --> 49:58.560 And so in 1844, he discovered 129 loose leaves of a Greek translation of the Old Testament in St. Catherine's monastery at Mount Sinai that he believed dated back to the mid-fourth century. 49:58.560 --> 50:05.560 So he recounted in his writings, and tell me if this doesn't sound like the biggest load of crap that you've ever heard, but it says, 50:17.560 --> 50:46.560 So it doesn't take a brain surgeon to even read that and realize, like, if these monks were, like, you know, going to roast some marshmallows with it or something, it's like, this wasn't, they didn't think this was the word of God. 50:46.560 --> 50:50.560 You know, they're burning it. It was destined for the fire. 50:50.560 --> 50:54.560 Does that sound like something that has been preserved? 50:54.560 --> 50:59.560 I mean, I am sure the Baptists were just going nuts at this time. 50:59.560 --> 51:01.560 You know, like, the heretic. 51:01.560 --> 51:07.560 I mean, I'm sure that they didn't just get turned on this, but I'm sure some did because there is nothing new under the sun. 51:07.560 --> 51:11.560 And Baptists nowadays are allowing these other versions in. 51:11.560 --> 51:20.560 You know, they'll maybe from the pulpit only preach the King James, but they'll allow, and say, no big deal if you have another version in the Bible here. 51:20.560 --> 51:32.560 And so these stories, they changed too, and they really should have caused the actual God-fearing person to just toss this stuff in the fire too, like the monks were doing. 51:32.560 --> 51:39.560 But it says of the 129 leaves, like, he ended up securing like 43 of them with a promise that the rest wouldn't be burned. 51:39.560 --> 51:41.560 So he ended up leaving. 51:41.560 --> 51:56.560 And however, in 1853 when he returned, which was nine years later from when he originally went there, he learned that the remaining leaves had since been basically misplaced and assumed to have been destroyed. 51:56.560 --> 52:00.560 So they told him that they'd keep the rest for him, but they still destroyed it. 52:01.560 --> 52:05.560 I mean, it shows you what they actually really thought of what they had there. 52:05.560 --> 52:19.560 So then he returned six years later in 1859 with the support of the Russian Tsar, who was like considered the political protector of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which we know is heretical, to find the rest of anything that he could. 52:19.560 --> 52:23.560 So he went to try to, on a salvage mission, see if there was anything there. 52:23.560 --> 52:25.560 And check this out. 52:25.560 --> 52:26.560 Check this out. 52:26.560 --> 52:37.560 To his amazement, he was shown not only the missing portion of the Old Testament, but also a further 112 leaves of the Old Testament and a completed New Testament. 52:37.560 --> 52:46.560 So it went from everything got destroyed to all of a sudden he goes back and then there's all these, there's a whole new testament, 112 other leaves here. 52:46.560 --> 52:52.560 So Tiskendorf imagined that this to be an act of divine intervention, though obviously it wasn't. 52:52.560 --> 53:06.560 So starting from when he stumbled across a portion of these manuscripts 15 years prior, just before they're being destroyed, and then now all of a sudden they have all kinds of Bible, all kinds of supposedly Old Bible. 53:06.560 --> 53:12.560 And so their whole premise is that all these things are older so that older must be better. 53:12.560 --> 53:17.560 And we don't need to flush that out to know that that's just a stupid way to think. 53:17.560 --> 53:22.560 That doesn't make any sense just because it's older wouldn't mean that it would actually be true. 53:22.560 --> 53:23.560 Right. 53:23.560 --> 53:25.560 You know, but this Tiskendorf. 53:25.560 --> 53:41.560 So they're even at that time, not much after that time, somebody came forward, a guy, Seminodes, Constantine Seminodes, and he published a letter in the newspaper claiming that he personally had wrote some of these manuscripts that they supposedly found. 53:41.560 --> 53:44.560 And really, that's probably a time when the news wasn't as corrupt as it is now. 53:44.560 --> 53:46.560 So I mean, maybe it was it was true. 53:46.560 --> 53:48.560 But either way, we know it was a fraud. 53:48.560 --> 53:49.560 Right. 53:49.560 --> 53:53.560 We know because we know through the Bible, we don't like need some of these stories necessarily. 53:53.560 --> 53:57.560 But I think for some people, those stories are good to know. 53:57.560 --> 54:10.560 And, you know, even if this guy wasn't was making that up because apparently this guy was like a really renowned forger and had got out outed for what he was doing by this Tiskendorf guy. 54:10.560 --> 54:12.560 So, yeah, maybe they did have a beef. 54:12.560 --> 54:15.560 But there was other discrepancies like the color disc. 54:15.560 --> 54:18.560 There's color discrepancies in the leaves of the parchment. 54:18.560 --> 54:22.560 The quality of them was a little too fresh and supple to be like 1600 years old. 54:22.560 --> 54:23.560 Right. 54:23.560 --> 54:36.560 Not to mention, like, why would they just have it like very, very like preserved really like as it would be preserved if they found the whole New Testament and they found all these different leaves. 54:36.560 --> 54:41.560 I mean, is it really not how that you know how the Bible had been handed down in the past? 54:41.560 --> 54:45.560 So it really like it doesn't make sense anyway. 54:45.560 --> 54:50.560 It was it was it should have just been in the trash like they were like the monks were going to do. 54:50.560 --> 55:00.560 Then you have the codec codex Vaticanus, which we know that sounds too much like the Vatican because it is it's like the Vatican in Rome, which is the epicenter of the Catholic Church. 55:00.560 --> 55:03.560 And they found one tucked away in some secretive library. 55:03.560 --> 55:04.560 Right. 55:04.560 --> 55:13.560 And, you know, they said a lot of it probably originated from Egypt, which, you know, we know what the Bible says about Egypt and a lot of false doctrine comes out of Egypt. 55:13.560 --> 55:22.560 So and even these two codex disagree in thousands of places with with not only the vast majority of the Greek manuscripts, but they disagree with one another. 55:22.560 --> 55:23.560 Right. 55:23.560 --> 55:33.560 So there's even biblical principles that are just you have to throw in the trash to believe this to like Jude one three saying, you know, for one, the word was delivered to the saints. 55:33.560 --> 55:36.560 Because a lot of these people were not saved. 55:36.560 --> 55:45.560 Some of them even claim to be atheists or, you know, if they disagree with one another, Amos three, three says can two walk together except they be agreed. 55:45.560 --> 55:46.560 Right. 55:46.560 --> 55:50.560 So there's like, again, biblical principles that you have to throw in the trash. 55:50.560 --> 56:00.560 And there's no historical evidence that shows that Sinai Atticus or the Vaticanus were ever used in any church anywhere in the world before the 19th century. 56:00.560 --> 56:02.560 That's not preservation. 56:02.560 --> 56:11.560 I mean, that that is we should we should just be encouraged that we know that we have a Bible that we could believe in and rely on. 56:11.560 --> 56:13.560 It's the words of God. 56:13.560 --> 56:23.560 He was strong enough and able enough to keep them preserved and translated accurately exactly to the original text. 56:23.560 --> 56:26.560 We can have accurate translation of that. 56:26.560 --> 56:28.560 And again, there's there's tons of good sermons on that. 56:28.560 --> 56:33.560 You know, I don't want to beat that too much, but it's it's ridiculous. 56:33.560 --> 56:34.560 Turn to Psalm 138. 56:37.560 --> 56:40.560 Job even said, Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean thing? 56:40.560 --> 56:41.560 Not one. 56:41.560 --> 56:45.560 So you don't tell me you bring something destined for the fire and for the trash. 56:45.560 --> 56:47.560 And then that's the you know, that's the word of God. 56:47.560 --> 56:57.560 You know, when the Bible just puts such an emphasis on the word of God, just on the authority of it and just on its just it just places it in such high. 56:57.560 --> 57:00.560 And people will say we're straining at Nats. 57:00.560 --> 57:02.560 We're a cult for believing this. 57:02.560 --> 57:04.560 You know, people don't even know what a cult is. 57:04.560 --> 57:07.560 Show me why we're a cult with some Bible. 57:07.560 --> 57:11.560 Show me with the Bible, because I'll show you we are not a cult with the Bible. 57:11.560 --> 57:13.560 You know, it's like it. 57:13.560 --> 57:24.560 People just love to throw that out there because they look at stuff stuff up online and they see certain controversies and things like that, which all kinds of controversies and conspiracies are all in throughout the Bible. 57:25.560 --> 57:27.560 So it's not it's nothing new under the sun. 57:27.560 --> 57:34.560 You know, we're just living it out and we you know, but they don't know what a cult actually is, you know. 57:37.560 --> 57:38.560 Philippians 2 9. 57:38.560 --> 57:46.560 I'm going to read that to wherefore God hath also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name. 57:46.560 --> 57:48.560 So Jesus name is above every name. 57:48.560 --> 57:51.560 And again, I already said John 1 1. 57:51.560 --> 57:51.560 57:51.560 --> 57:52.560 Jesus is the word. 57:52.560 --> 57:53.560 Right. 57:53.560 --> 57:54.560 And his name is above every name. 57:54.560 --> 58:02.560 Again, this emphasis on just the word of God in general is is all throughout the Bible. 58:02.560 --> 58:04.560 I mean, you can't miss it. 58:04.560 --> 58:05.560 Something 138. 58:05.560 --> 58:06.560 Look at verse two. 58:06.560 --> 58:14.560 It says I will worship toward thy holy temple and praise thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth. 58:14.560 --> 58:18.560 For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. 58:18.560 --> 58:20.560 So the word of God is magnified. 58:20.560 --> 58:21.560 Right. 58:21.560 --> 58:26.560 And I want to let you know just to give you some contrast what some verses the NIV says. 58:26.560 --> 58:28.560 And I know this happens every now and then in sermon. 58:28.560 --> 58:30.560 So you probably know some of these. 58:30.560 --> 58:32.560 But you know, sometimes you forget. 58:32.560 --> 58:34.560 But these are good examples. 58:34.560 --> 58:40.560 You should have examples to to point out to people how the word of God is being twisted or turned. 58:40.560 --> 58:43.560 But here's what it says in the NIV. 58:43.560 --> 58:49.560 I will not bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your unfailing love and your faithfulness for you. 58:49.560 --> 58:54.560 Have so exalted your solemn decree that it surpasses your fame. 58:54.560 --> 59:01.560 Is that anything like the verse I read where it says it it says truth. 59:01.560 --> 59:02.560 Right. 59:02.560 --> 59:06.560 And then it says magnify that word instead of exalted your solemn decree. 59:06.560 --> 59:07.560 What does that even mean? 59:07.560 --> 59:13.560 Exalted your faithfulness is about like loyalty and commitment and steadfast steadfastness. 59:13.560 --> 59:15.560 Truth is about accuracy. 59:15.560 --> 59:18.560 Reality and it corresponds to the facts. 59:18.560 --> 59:19.560 You know, they're not the same thing. 59:19.560 --> 59:21.560 But even though they can be interconnected. 59:21.560 --> 59:22.560 Right. 59:21.560 --> 59:24.560 But you could be faithful to something that's not true. 59:24.560 --> 59:25.560 Right. 59:25.560 --> 59:27.560 But God is about truth. 59:27.560 --> 59:28.560 Right. 59:28.560 --> 59:29.560 And yes, God is faithful. 59:29.560 --> 59:31.560 But God is faithful to truth. 59:31.560 --> 59:33.560 Not to his solemn decree. 59:33.560 --> 59:34.560 Right. 59:33.560 --> 59:36.560 Or whatever that stupid NIV says. 59:36.560 --> 59:39.560 Psalm 105 says for the Lord is good. 59:39.560 --> 59:41.560 His mercy is everlasting. 59:41.560 --> 59:43.560 And his truth is the truth. 59:43.560 --> 59:44.560 His mercy is everlasting. 59:44.560 --> 59:48.560 And his truth endureth to all generations. 59:48.560 --> 59:53.560 So his truth, which the Bible is truth, the Bible is God. 59:53.560 --> 59:55.560 It endures for all generations. 59:55.560 --> 59:58.560 That's a that's a verse that says God's going to preserve his word. 59:58.560 --> 01:00:03.560 You know, in false versions, they will attack key doctrines of the Bible. 01:00:03.560 --> 01:00:06.560 So you'll never see somebody with an NIV out there soul winning. 01:00:06.560 --> 01:00:07.560 Right. 01:00:07.560 --> 01:00:08.560 Do you ever see that? 01:00:08.560 --> 01:00:11.560 No, it's it's people with the King James Bible out there soul winning. 01:00:11.560 --> 01:00:12.560 Right. 01:00:12.560 --> 01:00:13.560 And here's why too. 01:00:13.560 --> 01:00:17.560 It's like Proverbs 1130 says the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. 01:00:17.560 --> 01:00:19.560 And he that winneth souls is wise. 01:00:19.560 --> 01:00:20.560 Right. 01:00:20.560 --> 01:00:21.560 This is where you get soul winning from. 01:00:21.560 --> 01:00:22.560 The verse you get soul winning from. 01:00:22.560 --> 01:00:25.560 This is what you know is a core tenet of our churches. 01:00:25.560 --> 01:00:26.560 Right. 01:00:26.560 --> 01:00:27.560 We go out and we win souls. 01:00:27.560 --> 01:00:29.560 We go out and preach the gospel. 01:00:29.560 --> 01:00:30.560 Right. 01:00:30.560 --> 01:00:31.560 You know what the NIV says? 01:00:31.560 --> 01:00:34.560 You guys know what the NIV says on that one? 01:00:34.560 --> 01:00:36.560 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. 01:00:36.560 --> 01:00:41.560 And the one who is wise saves lives. 01:00:41.560 --> 01:00:43.560 It's not the same thing. 01:00:43.560 --> 01:00:45.560 So the doctors wise. 01:00:45.560 --> 01:00:46.560 Right. 01:00:46.560 --> 01:00:48.560 Your life and your soul are two different things. 01:00:48.560 --> 01:00:49.560 Right. 01:00:49.560 --> 01:00:50.560 We know that. 01:00:50.560 --> 01:00:51.560 Right. 01:00:51.560 --> 01:00:52.560 Your life is a different thing than your soul. 01:00:52.560 --> 01:00:56.560 So somebody who you know they maybe they invent something that saves lives. 01:00:56.560 --> 01:00:58.560 That's the same thing as somebody that's winning a soul. 01:00:58.560 --> 01:00:59.560 It's not the same thing. 01:00:59.560 --> 01:01:00.560 Right. 01:01:00.560 --> 01:01:02.560 No wonder they don't go soul winning. 01:01:02.560 --> 01:01:03.560 Right. 01:01:03.560 --> 01:01:07.560 So you got to be ready to contend though for your KJV only stance. 01:01:07.560 --> 01:01:08.560 Right. 01:01:08.560 --> 01:01:09.560 But with charity. 01:01:09.560 --> 01:01:10.560 Right. 01:01:10.560 --> 01:01:13.560 Because they tell us we're stupid for believing. 01:01:13.560 --> 01:01:17.560 Like we're stupid for believing that God would preserve his word. 01:01:17.560 --> 01:01:18.560 Right. 01:01:18.560 --> 01:01:19.560 They do believe that. 01:01:19.560 --> 01:01:20.560 You see it. 01:01:20.560 --> 01:01:24.560 You kind of feel the condescension when you're talking to somebody. 01:01:24.560 --> 01:01:27.560 They're just like really it's really annoying. 01:01:27.560 --> 01:01:31.560 I mean it's hard to kind of but you should try to be charitable with them because they're 01:01:31.560 --> 01:01:35.560 just ignorant like I was when I first started and I bristled a little bit at it at first 01:01:35.560 --> 01:01:36.560 too. 01:01:36.560 --> 01:01:37.560 Right. 01:01:37.560 --> 01:01:40.560 You got to be able to give an answer right to people. 01:01:40.560 --> 01:01:42.560 Turn to Hosea chapter 11. 01:01:42.560 --> 01:01:47.560 So I'll read what I'm going to read what the NIV says in Hosea chapter 11 first. 01:01:51.560 --> 01:01:53.560 Ephraim has surrounded me with lies. 01:01:53.560 --> 01:01:55.560 Israel with deceit. 01:01:55.560 --> 01:02:01.560 And Judah is unruly against God even against the faithful holy one. 01:02:01.560 --> 01:02:06.560 Let's look at what our Bible says. 01:02:06.560 --> 01:02:13.560 Ephraim compasses me about with lies and the house of Israel with deceit. 01:02:13.560 --> 01:02:18.560 But Judah yet ruleeth with God and is faithful with the saints. 01:02:18.560 --> 01:02:21.560 It's exactly the opposite thing. 01:02:21.560 --> 01:02:24.560 This is exactly the opposite thing. 01:02:24.560 --> 01:02:26.560 So you know but nothing to see here. 01:02:26.560 --> 01:02:28.560 You KJV weirdos. 01:02:28.560 --> 01:02:30.560 You know nothing's been changed. 01:02:30.560 --> 01:02:32.560 All the doctrines the same. 01:02:32.560 --> 01:02:34.560 You know they're this it's the same Bible. 01:02:34.560 --> 01:02:36.560 You're just making a mountain out of molehill. 01:02:36.560 --> 01:02:38.560 You know they tell you all these things. 01:02:38.560 --> 01:02:43.560 But the problem is is if you believe two contradictory things then you believe a lie. 01:02:43.560 --> 01:02:44.560 Right. 01:02:44.560 --> 01:02:45.560 That's what cognitive dissonance is. 01:02:45.560 --> 01:02:47.560 We always hear that fancy word. 01:02:47.560 --> 01:02:49.560 Those two words throw you know. 01:02:49.560 --> 01:02:50.560 But that's what it is. 01:02:50.560 --> 01:02:54.560 It's when you believe two opposing things to be true and they can't be true. 01:02:54.560 --> 01:02:58.560 And there's tons of those examples in the Bible. 01:02:58.560 --> 01:03:04.560 We're not going to go through all those things but like logic dictates that two opposing statements cannot both be true at the same time. 01:03:04.560 --> 01:03:07.560 So you're basically believing a lie. 01:03:07.560 --> 01:03:10.560 You're basically saying God is a liar because God is the word. 01:03:10.560 --> 01:03:11.560 Right. 01:03:11.560 --> 01:03:16.560 Last contrast I'll go to turn to second Corinthians chapter two. 01:03:16.560 --> 01:03:26.560 And this is relevant to what I'm talking about. 01:03:26.560 --> 01:03:39.560 Second Corinthians Corinthians 2 17 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. 01:03:39.560 --> 01:03:44.560 The NIV says unlike so many we do not peddle the word of God for profit. 01:03:44.560 --> 01:03:50.560 On the contrary in Christ we speak before God with sincerity as those sent from God. 01:03:50.560 --> 01:03:53.560 We do not peddle the word of God for profit. 01:03:53.560 --> 01:04:00.560 It's not even doesn't even mean the same thing as corrupting the word of God which is what they do is what people do. 01:04:00.560 --> 01:04:08.560 It's it's pretty obvious to us but for some reason it goes right over the head of the majority of people that say they're Christian goes right over their head. 01:04:08.560 --> 01:04:09.560 It's dangerous. 01:04:09.560 --> 01:04:14.560 It's I think it's a blasphemous mindset to think that God couldn't preserve his work. 01:04:14.560 --> 01:04:16.560 It just it's it blows my mind. 01:04:16.560 --> 01:04:17.560 It really does. 01:04:17.560 --> 01:04:20.560 To think that like he can't do what he said he was going to do. 01:04:20.560 --> 01:04:31.560 You know and we know all the verses the words of Lord and pure words of silver tried in a furnace of earth pure fight seven times thou shall keep them O Lord thou shall preserve them from this generation forever. 01:04:31.560 --> 01:04:37.560 You all know the forever part forever doesn't mean forever to people who do not believe this right. 01:04:37.560 --> 01:04:40.560 And there's all kinds of verses like that. 01:04:40.560 --> 01:04:44.560 And then what you get though because there's nothing new under the sun you get. 01:04:44.560 --> 01:04:50.560 I just recently popped up in my feed so this is this happened just maybe a week or so ago. 01:04:50.560 --> 01:04:52.560 You might have probably you might have heard it too. 01:04:52.560 --> 01:05:00.560 You know I think if you're ever on Facebook which honestly I don't recommend but occasionally I do get on there. 01:05:00.560 --> 01:05:05.560 But when you're Christian and they'll do they'll pop some stuff up there maybe to rattle you rattle you up a little bit. 01:05:05.560 --> 01:05:09.560 But this bishop bishop I'll say big time quotes. 01:05:09.560 --> 01:05:11.560 He vet flunder. 01:05:11.560 --> 01:05:13.560 Did anyone heard of this person. 01:05:13.560 --> 01:05:16.560 He vet flunder the name alone right. 01:05:16.560 --> 01:05:18.560 It's like yeah exactly. 01:05:18.560 --> 01:05:19.560 That's what I thought. 01:05:19.560 --> 01:05:21.560 So here's what she said. 01:05:21.560 --> 01:05:24.560 This is a very dangerous thing that I'm about to say now. 01:05:24.560 --> 01:05:29.560 And hopefully I doubt she's thinking dangerous because God should just strike her down on the spot. 01:05:29.560 --> 01:05:31.560 But she says a bit dangerous. 01:05:31.560 --> 01:05:37.560 I'm of the opinion that we need a third testament because the Bible has become problematic. 01:05:37.560 --> 01:05:40.560 Slaves obey your masters as you do the Lord. 01:05:40.560 --> 01:05:42.560 It's in the text. 01:05:42.560 --> 01:05:48.560 Let the woman keep silent in the churches and if they have any questions let them ask their husbands at home. 01:05:48.560 --> 01:05:50.560 Now I'm a believer my whole heart. 01:05:50.560 --> 01:05:51.560 I trust God with my whole heart. 01:05:51.560 --> 01:05:54.560 I wake up in the morning talking to God and God talking to me. 01:05:54.560 --> 01:05:59.560 There's the God talking to me huh. 01:05:59.560 --> 01:06:06.560 But I'm completely frustrated with the ways in which the text speaks to the kind of vitriolic God that makes these kinds of things. 01:06:06.560 --> 01:06:12.560 She's calling God vitriolic for the word of God for what the words of God actually say. 01:06:12.560 --> 01:06:17.560 And people will say well it's in the book and I said well then we need to pull this that page out. 01:06:17.560 --> 01:06:19.560 And they said well you can't do it. 01:06:19.560 --> 01:06:20.560 It's the word of God. 01:06:20.560 --> 01:06:22.560 I said no it's the words about God. 01:06:22.560 --> 01:06:24.560 Come on now. 01:06:24.560 --> 01:06:26.560 But is it the word of God. 01:06:26.560 --> 01:06:28.560 Yea have God said. 01:06:28.560 --> 01:06:29.560 See there's nothing new under the sun. 01:06:29.560 --> 01:06:30.560 This is just demonic. 01:06:30.560 --> 01:06:31.560 This is a devil. 01:06:31.560 --> 01:06:32.560 No it's not. 01:06:32.560 --> 01:06:33.560 It's not. 01:06:33.560 --> 01:06:34.560 This is just demonic. 01:06:34.560 --> 01:06:35.560 This is a devil. 01:06:35.560 --> 01:06:37.560 No it's not the word of God. 01:06:37.560 --> 01:06:38.560 This is what she said. 01:06:38.560 --> 01:06:39.560 No it's not the word of God. 01:06:39.560 --> 01:06:41.560 The New Testament is not the word of God. 01:06:41.560 --> 01:06:42.560 That's what she said. 01:06:42.560 --> 01:06:47.560 The New Testament is not the lying disgusting woman. 01:06:47.560 --> 01:06:48.560 Right. 01:06:48.560 --> 01:06:49.560 What a devil. 01:06:49.560 --> 01:06:51.560 But you notice how like even feminism creeps into this. 01:06:51.560 --> 01:06:53.560 It is a problem of our age. 01:06:53.560 --> 01:06:54.560 Right. 01:06:54.560 --> 01:07:00.560 And that's why I think it kind of gets beat maybe a little on the hard hard side you know sometimes. 01:07:00.560 --> 01:07:02.560 But hey I don't fault the man of God. 01:07:02.560 --> 01:07:07.560 God had his prophets do some pretty gnarly things sometimes when it called for it within a society. 01:07:07.560 --> 01:07:08.560 I mean he called. 01:07:08.560 --> 01:07:10.560 Read the Bible. 01:07:10.560 --> 01:07:14.560 You know you know you guys are doing the Old Testament challenge right. 01:07:14.560 --> 01:07:15.560 I think that's awesome that Remy does. 01:07:15.560 --> 01:07:16.560 Brother Remy does that. 01:07:16.560 --> 01:07:21.560 But it yeah she throws in a verse about women being silent in the church. 01:07:21.560 --> 01:07:23.560 Hey take it up with God. 01:07:23.560 --> 01:07:24.560 Right. 01:07:24.560 --> 01:07:27.560 But they don't want they want this is they want a God in their own image. 01:07:27.560 --> 01:07:31.560 They'll believe the Bible if it conforms with the way they believe. 01:07:31.560 --> 01:07:34.560 If not tear it out if not write a New Testament. 01:07:34.560 --> 01:07:44.560 You think this is like a new sort of philosophy that this didn't happen when way back in the day when you know this guy was looking his mission was to find new text of the Bible. 01:07:44.560 --> 01:07:51.560 If you're if you're a mission is to be against God and be against the Bible you're probably going to find something even if it's forged. 01:07:51.560 --> 01:07:52.560 Right. 01:07:52.560 --> 01:07:54.560 You're going to find something to support it. 01:07:54.560 --> 01:07:58.560 So these remarks by this supposed bishop who is the senior. 01:07:58.560 --> 01:08:07.560 Refuge United Church of Christ in Oakland California and the presiding bishop of the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries. 01:08:07.560 --> 01:08:08.560 More like refuse. 01:08:08.560 --> 01:08:12.560 Refuse like trash like it's the city of garbage. 01:08:12.560 --> 01:08:13.560 Right. 01:08:13.560 --> 01:08:15.560 Because that's what this woman is is a piece of garbage. 01:08:15.560 --> 01:08:16.560 Right. 01:08:16.560 --> 01:08:17.560 Turn to Psalm 68. 01:08:17.560 --> 01:08:21.560 Psalm 68. 01:08:21.560 --> 01:08:23.560 So you know this is interesting. 01:08:23.560 --> 01:08:26.560 But I've heard a lot about that Masoretic text. 01:08:26.560 --> 01:08:28.560 But I didn't know much about the Masoretic. 01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:29.560 I mean you guys might. 01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:38.560 But this is where a lot of the text that we believe came from. 01:08:38.560 --> 01:08:39.560 It came from the Masoretic text. 01:08:39.560 --> 01:08:44.560 You know like that had been handed down been passed down from generation to generation. 01:08:44.560 --> 01:08:55.560 You know and God obviously knew that we would get to this point in history where we have thumb drives and we have like all this technology to keep things stored and keep it accurate. 01:08:55.560 --> 01:08:56.560 Keep it to the point. 01:08:56.560 --> 01:08:57.560 Keep it copied over. 01:08:57.560 --> 01:09:09.560 You know all these things with the King James Bible coincided with certain things like printing presses and things that like you know gave them the ability to mass produce it with accuracy and things like that. 01:09:09.560 --> 01:09:11.560 God knew that was going to happen. 01:09:11.560 --> 01:09:13.560 It's like give me a break. 01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:21.560 So 6811 says the Lord gave the word great gave the word great was the company of those that published it. 01:09:21.560 --> 01:09:23.560 God is the one who gave us the word of God. 01:09:23.560 --> 01:09:27.560 God preserved the word of God through the Masoretic text of the Old Testament Hebrew. 01:09:27.560 --> 01:09:31.560 Hebrew the received text from the traditional text family the New Testament Greek. 01:09:31.560 --> 01:09:46.560 And like I said in a time when we didn't have all these things like memory cards and stuff like that the Masoretic were God fearing men who painstakingly preserved and handed down the word of God painstakingly like things that people wouldn't do nowadays. 01:09:46.560 --> 01:09:49.560 I'm sure you know we're kind of in a more of a lazy type of society. 01:09:49.560 --> 01:09:59.560 I hate said I mean it's like I know that we're hard workers you know as Baptist who believe the Bible but most you know it's a scary place out there. 01:09:59.560 --> 01:10:01.560 I mean people customer services downhill. 01:10:01.560 --> 01:10:04.560 I mean it's like people don't really care what they do. 01:10:04.560 --> 01:10:08.560 You know people are just fine to just be a bum nowadays really. 01:10:08.560 --> 01:10:11.560 It's like that's why there's so many more bums than even when I was younger. 01:10:11.560 --> 01:10:15.560 I mean bums are everywhere but God preserved his word. 01:10:15.560 --> 01:10:22.560 And so they Masoretic comes from the Hebrew word massar meaning to hand down. 01:10:22.560 --> 01:10:27.560 And you know they weren't careless scribes or you know just casual copyists right. 01:10:27.560 --> 01:10:31.560 They were guardians and they were devoted to maintaining the purity of the Bible. 01:10:31.560 --> 01:10:33.560 And so I'll just read. 01:10:33.560 --> 01:10:35.560 So there's this book by. 01:10:35.560 --> 01:10:39.560 Let's see. 01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:42.560 His name is. 01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:44.560 Herbert Sumner. 01:10:44.560 --> 01:10:48.560 And he listed some of the there's this 1937 book. 01:10:48.560 --> 01:10:57.560 You know in the in the biblical introduction he looked at the eight rules that the Israelites used to copy the scrolls of the Old Testament scripture to preserve the word of God. 01:10:57.560 --> 01:10:59.560 And you know it's crazy. 01:10:59.560 --> 01:11:04.560 I'm just going to read these just because it just shows you how serious they took it right. 01:11:04.560 --> 01:11:07.560 This wasn't just like the way people are nowadays. 01:11:07.560 --> 01:11:25.560 The parchment had to be made from the skin of a clean animal had to be prepared by them only the by Jew only skins were fastened together by strings taken from clean animals also each column had to have no less than 48 no more than 60 lines the entire copy must be first line. 01:11:25.560 --> 01:11:31.560 The ink had to be no other color than black and must be prepared according to a specific recipe. 01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:34.560 Order letter could be written from memory. 01:11:34.560 --> 01:11:43.560 This they describe had to have an authentic copy before him and he must read and pronounce aloud each word before writing it. 01:11:43.560 --> 01:11:49.560 He had to pronounce every word before he wrote it down with an authentic copy before him and he had to say it out loud. 01:11:49.560 --> 01:11:50.560 Right. 01:11:50.560 --> 01:11:53.560 Not just see it in his mind right not just have it by memory. 01:11:53.560 --> 01:11:56.560 He had to he had to see it and say it. 01:11:56.560 --> 01:12:00.560 And this was to avoid any errors any duplications of emissions etc. 01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:15.560 He must reverently wipe his pen each time before writing the word God and he must wash his whole body before writing the name Jehovah lest the holy name be contaminated strict rules given were given concerning forms of the letter spaces between letters words sections. 01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:18.560 The use of the pen the color of the parchment etc. 01:12:18.560 --> 01:12:26.560 The revision of the role must be made within 30 days after the work was finished otherwise it was worthless one mistake on a sheet condemn that sheet. 01:12:26.560 --> 01:12:30.560 If three mistakes were found on any page the entire manuscript was condemned. 01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:38.560 So if they got all the way from my Genesis to Malachi and they found three mistakes they would start over again from Genesis and go all the way to Malachi again. 01:12:38.560 --> 01:12:42.560 I mean every word in every letter were counted. 01:12:42.560 --> 01:12:46.560 They counted every word in every letter every John Tittle. 01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:46.560 01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:48.560 That's what the Bible says. 01:12:48.560 --> 01:12:49.560 We're counted. 01:12:49.560 --> 01:12:52.560 I mean talk about like trying to be exact. 01:12:52.560 --> 01:13:01.560 You know if if a letter were omitted or an extra letter inserted or if one letter touched another the manuscript was condemned and destroyed at once. 01:13:01.560 --> 01:13:03.560 I mean that seems crazy right. 01:13:03.560 --> 01:13:11.560 But that's how I mean God used men to do just like he used the prophets holy men spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 01:13:11.560 --> 01:13:14.560 God also used men that he knew were going to be like this. 01:13:14.560 --> 01:13:19.560 You know we're going to take it seriously and they were going to make sure that it was passed down. 01:13:19.560 --> 01:13:33.560 And this was all that this is what was handed down to get us to where we were when the King James Bible was translated from these types of texts that had been passed down and thousands of manuscripts were were found and they agreed with each other. 01:13:33.560 --> 01:13:35.560 The majority of them agreed with each other. 01:13:35.560 --> 01:13:36.560 That's right. 01:13:36.560 --> 01:13:36.560 01:13:36.560 --> 01:13:38.560 We it was preserved. 01:13:38.560 --> 01:13:39.560 Right. 01:13:39.560 --> 01:13:40.560 They weren't. 01:13:40.560 --> 01:13:42.560 And this wasn't just casually accepted by believers either. 01:13:42.560 --> 01:13:47.560 This you know this was faithfully embraced as the word of God this whole time. 01:13:47.560 --> 01:13:48.560 Right. 01:13:48.560 --> 01:13:51.560 I mean it was received not rejected. 01:13:51.560 --> 01:13:52.560 It was preserved. 01:13:52.560 --> 01:14:00.560 You know and then like for the New Testament Greek 5400 plus manuscripts and fragment fragments have been discovered. 01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:03.560 And you know over 90 percent agree with one another. 01:14:03.560 --> 01:14:10.560 And you know to make it known what is known as the traditional text family the remaining managed manuscripts make up the other two groups. 01:14:10.560 --> 01:14:14.560 So the word of God is preserved. 01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:15.560 It is preserved. 01:14:15.560 --> 01:14:19.560 And you love your King James Bible study it memorize it. 01:14:19.560 --> 01:14:27.560 You know I think that Brother Remy is doing a great job encouraging you all to read your Bible and to study your Bible. 01:14:27.560 --> 01:14:29.560 I mean I saw you man just recently did like some popcorn preaching. 01:14:29.560 --> 01:14:30.560 I was impressed. 01:14:30.560 --> 01:14:32.560 I was like good job. 01:14:32.560 --> 01:14:36.560 Oh I was like damn pastor doesn't implement that right. 01:14:36.560 --> 01:14:38.560 But like hey be ready though. 01:14:38.560 --> 01:14:40.560 You know we should be ready. 01:14:40.560 --> 01:14:46.560 We should know our Bible enough to get up here and get a topic thrown our way and be able to open the Bible and say why we believe it. 01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:48.560 We should be able to do that. 01:14:48.560 --> 01:14:51.560 So that's talk about exhorting one another. 01:14:51.560 --> 01:14:53.560 That is how you exhort one another. 01:14:53.560 --> 01:14:55.560 That's what makes church so so good. 01:14:55.560 --> 01:14:57.560 Don't tell me church isn't important. 01:14:57.560 --> 01:15:02.560 People are trying to say church isn't important or you know everybody gets the same rewards. 01:15:02.560 --> 01:15:03.560 Just stay home. 01:15:04.560 --> 01:15:13.560 I mean if somebody actually believes that God just wanted you to figure out salvation for yourself and then just stay home and just live your best life now you're insane. 01:15:13.560 --> 01:15:18.560 I mean this life is faster than the blink of an eye when you throw it to a turn when you compare it to eternity. 01:15:18.560 --> 01:15:22.560 It's faster than the blink of an eye. 01:15:22.560 --> 01:15:26.560 Why would he want you to not share your faith and preach the gospel and get other people saved. 01:15:26.560 --> 01:15:28.560 God is not willing that any should perish. 01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:30.560 I mean come on. 01:15:30.560 --> 01:15:31.560 Church isn't important. 01:15:31.560 --> 01:15:34.560 Church is of the utmost of importance. 01:15:34.560 --> 01:15:37.560 It is of the utmost of importance. 01:15:37.560 --> 01:15:39.560 I mean Christ died for the church. 01:15:39.560 --> 01:15:40.560 He's the head of the church. 01:15:40.560 --> 01:15:42.560 It's like church is important. 01:15:42.560 --> 01:15:46.560 And I think that you know exhorting doing these new things. 01:15:46.560 --> 01:15:52.560 I'm like hey I like the new I like that Old Testament challenge because you know everyone does the New Testament challenge right. 01:15:52.560 --> 01:15:54.560 And it's it's one month. 01:15:54.560 --> 01:15:55.560 It's fast. 01:15:55.560 --> 01:15:58.560 And then you have 11 more months of the year. 01:15:58.560 --> 01:15:59.560 And guess what. 01:15:59.560 --> 01:16:03.560 Sometimes people don't even get the New Testament done in those 11 months. 01:16:03.560 --> 01:16:04.560 Why. 01:16:04.560 --> 01:16:06.560 Because you're not getting pushed. 01:16:06.560 --> 01:16:07.560 You don't have the challenge. 01:16:07.560 --> 01:16:08.560 So it's a great thing. 01:16:08.560 --> 01:16:11.560 I hope I hope that gets spread out to everybody. 01:16:11.560 --> 01:16:12.560 I hope everybody does. 01:16:12.560 --> 01:16:14.560 I mean maybe other churches are doing it too. 01:16:14.560 --> 01:16:17.560 And I think I think pastor brought it up to some. 01:16:17.560 --> 01:16:18.560 He's like yeah we should probably. 01:16:18.560 --> 01:16:19.560 That's a good idea. 01:16:19.560 --> 01:16:21.560 You know he's like you know we were talking about it. 01:16:21.560 --> 01:16:27.560 But you know and then this this that there there's multiple revisions of the King James Bible. 01:16:27.560 --> 01:16:29.560 Really when you look into it it's garbage. 01:16:29.560 --> 01:16:34.560 It should just be you know additions of the Bible really because they were changing. 01:16:34.560 --> 01:16:49.560 And again we probably know this but they were just changing like spelling issues or you know standardizing things like changing from son so and any to son so and right correcting punctuation or printer errors. 01:16:49.560 --> 01:16:51.560 It wasn't like departing from the math. 01:16:52.560 --> 01:16:55.560 Like what all the new versions of the Bible are doing. 01:16:55.560 --> 01:16:58.560 It wasn't departing from the received text. 01:16:58.560 --> 01:16:59.560 It was right. 01:16:59.560 --> 01:17:01.560 It was just correcting little things. 01:17:01.560 --> 01:17:01.560 01:17:01.560 --> 01:17:08.560 So it's it's just a lie to say oh well your Bible's also are you reading the same thing they did in 1611 or whatever. 01:17:08.560 --> 01:17:09.560 It is the same thing. 01:17:09.560 --> 01:17:10.560 It's the same words. 01:17:10.560 --> 01:17:11.560 It's the same thing. 01:17:12.560 --> 01:17:19.560 I just want to read that because in a book defending the King James Bible by the way D.A. 01:17:19.560 --> 01:17:24.560 Waite said that it was only like point zero five percent change from the original like very minor changes. 01:17:24.560 --> 01:17:26.560 Wasn't anything big at all. 01:17:26.560 --> 01:17:40.560 But the Bible says this book of the law shall not depart out of my mouth but thou shalt meditate there in day and night that thou may as observe to do according to all that is written there in all that is written there in for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous. 01:17:40.560 --> 01:17:43.560 And then thou shalt have good success. 01:17:43.560 --> 01:17:47.560 So everything we contend for is from the word of God. 01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:56.560 And if the if the law of God shouldn't depart from our mouth so that we could do everything according to how God wants us to do it why would he let it get lost. 01:17:57.560 --> 01:18:00.560 It's insanity that people believe this. 01:18:00.560 --> 01:18:04.560 I it blows my mind and I know I'm preaching to the choir right now. 01:18:04.560 --> 01:18:11.560 But like it's it's a frustrating thing because you know we don't think too much about it even out there preaching the gospel. 01:18:11.560 --> 01:18:25.560 It does come up more often now I think than what I remember when I first started soul winning because now we have like a ton of Preserve Bible DVDs that we hand out you know and so that it can be on your mind a little bit more. 01:18:25.560 --> 01:18:30.560 But it is good to ask them what kind of Bible do you have a Bible. 01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:31.560 What kind of Bible do you have. 01:18:31.560 --> 01:18:33.560 Give them a King James Bible. 01:18:33.560 --> 01:18:50.560 That's why we get Bibles so we can hand them out to people you know talk to them a little bit about why it is so important that the Bible you read because you know and it's hard at the door to give them all this this knowledge you know and you have to want it right. 01:18:50.560 --> 01:18:57.560 You know we think everybody is going to be like we were where we got all this truth and we just like wanted more truth right. 01:18:57.560 --> 01:19:01.560 Some people are just totally content to not go to hell and amen. 01:19:01.560 --> 01:19:08.560 Like we don't want them to go to hell so you know the people that just scoff on like whoa did they go to church did they get baptized and all that. 01:19:08.560 --> 01:19:18.560 Hey it's free will they have to want it to they have to want that truth and then if they seek it they're going to find it just like we did and then they would end up in a church like this. 01:19:18.560 --> 01:19:27.560 But it is good to at least try it's good to at least try to give them some knowledge right and let them know that God preserved his word. 01:19:27.560 --> 01:19:29.560 It is critical that it's preserved. 01:19:29.560 --> 01:19:37.560 If you're saved by the word of God I mean you read this Bible and you realize it's critical that God would have preserved it. 01:19:38.560 --> 01:19:44.560 And even our opinions right they should be filtered through the pure word of God right turn to Hebrews chapter four. 01:19:45.560 --> 01:19:58.560 Everything we think and believe all of our thoughts all of our ways of doing things all you know how we work at our jobs we were just talking about this last night with brother Paul you know all the all that we do all the opinions. 01:19:58.560 --> 01:20:03.560 That we form all of them should come from the word of God that's what the Bible even says. 01:20:03.560 --> 01:20:09.560 So again why would God not preserve it if that's the case. 01:20:09.560 --> 01:20:20.560 Of course he would you think he's going to like well you know sorry I got lost into a hole for fifteen hundred years and you didn't know but you know I guess you're going to be beaten with a little fewer stripes. 01:20:21.560 --> 01:20:26.560 So it's stupid it's it's it's retarded it really is. 01:20:26.560 --> 01:20:32.560 Hebrews four to look at verse eleven it says let us labor therefore to enter into the into that rest. 01:20:32.560 --> 01:20:35.560 Let any man fall after the some example of unbelief. 01:20:36.560 --> 01:20:51.560 The same example of unbelief 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 of moral and as a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 01:20:52.560 --> 01:21:00.560 So hey contend for the faith the Bible is quick and powerful it's not quick and powerful if you don't even know what it says or if it's accurate. 01:21:00.560 --> 01:21:12.560 It's not quick and powerful if they got lost you can't trust it you get to just kind of figure out how you want it to be you know if it just if you just if if it's something that you disagree with and you could say well you know what. 01:21:12.560 --> 01:21:28.560 You never know mankind is the one who you know preserved preserved it so it's probably tainted you know we can't have the the accuracy unless it's in the originals if we can go back and have those it's it's insane you know and we should contend for the faith. 01:21:29.560 --> 01:21:40.560 You know but not for the wrong types of things right because again the Bible should be how we line things up it's the discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart and I was listening to I listened to brother Remy's sermons as much as I can and. 01:21:40.560 --> 01:21:56.560 I was unaware of that he was like considered he's preaching something about saying like he wasn't new I have been enough or something like that or like I'm like what why why does he even have to preach about that really it's like we should contend for the right things and you know. 01:21:57.560 --> 01:22:02.560 We're not just all cookie cutter but if you say you're new I have been I'd say then you're new I be. 01:22:03.560 --> 01:22:20.560 You're willing to say that sometimes it's like I feel like churches get more grace just because they don't you know openly hate us they'll just like you know they you're like that friend you don't you'll you'll talk to elsewhere but if you go to lunch you know you're going to kind of ignore them or whatever like you know that's how we're okay with those kind of pastor sometimes. 01:22:20.560 --> 01:22:36.560 I mean did did Paul say the Corinthians weren't new I have been enough I mean I mean they were pretty messed up right you know we don't always have to have like the same exact line thought process but like. 01:22:36.560 --> 01:22:53.560 Or with each other in the main things let's just keep it at the main things that's insane man I mean it you know it really it kind of pissed me off really like or to or to just like claim that he's like just he just riding the coattails of pastor Thompson you know nepotism at its best. 01:22:53.560 --> 01:23:09.560 It's like that's insane anybody who's ever went to church with brother Remy hey brother Remy like he wasn't at our church first service he was actually they were getting married that's how I always remember around the time we came to that church pastor was gone so they were at his wedding. 01:23:09.560 --> 01:23:25.560 And and so but I've been with the at the church since that time and saw what a faithful family that they are so anyone who would say I mean that's what it should be our pastor is not a respecter of persons. 01:23:25.560 --> 01:23:38.560 That's what God God is the one who set up family lines of things if you read your Bible it's all over the Bible I mean the priests were hand down I mean it wasn't about the fact that like they were doing something wrong because they were doing something wrong. 01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:56.560 Because they shouldn't have been handing things down to their son it's about those sons that did something wrong because God is not a respecter of persons God is he's looking at our heart he's looking at the way we do things and you know you have to have a desire to do a job like that like leading a church. 01:23:56.560 --> 01:24:16.560 It's not for the wimpy men out there I'll tell you that because you have to put up with a lot right you have to deal with a lot you have to have a thick skin right I don't think that I would want to do it you know but that's why we should be more supportive of that and encourage that instead of trying to kind of knock that down. 01:24:16.560 --> 01:24:24.560 I mean I see all these morning quarterbacks out there they have so much to say against the man of God right but they're not doing it. 01:24:24.560 --> 01:24:27.560 That's weak man that is so weak. 01:24:27.560 --> 01:24:29.560 That is so weak. 01:24:29.560 --> 01:24:50.560 You know but yeah pastor Thompson of anyone that any pastor I've ever dealt with like had any sort of interactions with is the least respecter persons that I that I would ever that I've ever known that as far as in this role, you know that he's supposed to he tries to line things up. 01:24:50.560 --> 01:25:19.560 And you know obviously if it's your son you're going to love them in a different way but you know it's it's like you know there's a dearth in the world today of men that actually want to be a pastor don't discourage somebody from that job you know read first Timothy you know chapter three or Titus one right do they faithfully preach the word do they live a godly life you know are they sure showing fruit you know to this to the calling of you know or their desire to do this job right you know and if placing it said to you know. 01:25:20.560 --> 01:25:50.560 Put people in these churches it didn't say you know unless it's your unless it's your son you know don't don't do it then now right I could see somebody having that opinion but you know I would I would contend that that doesn't necessarily line up with the Bible though you know I mean the Bible's full of passing things down in family situations and you do see good examples of in bad examples of that right but you see good examples and bad examples of that in the world too right there's there's like family businesses that are like great and you love to go there. 01:25:50.560 --> 01:26:08.560 And they do an excellent job right because those people those sons or daughters or whoever is participating care about it they had the desire to do it you know but then you probably have examples where they didn't want to do it and they were lazy and they didn't you know and then they do a crappy job right and then the place falls apart you know but it in. 01:26:08.560 --> 01:26:38.560 As far as in a spiritual sense if they have a desire and they're faithful and they work hard and they meet the qualifications we should support them you know it's as long as it's done according to God's standards hey God said like I said he set up he set up a system of priesthood you know we're all priest do and really too when you think about it we're all family you know we're all brothers and sisters right that's how you know it's like you get nervous to preach but then you realize hey you're you're amongst 01:26:38.560 --> 01:27:08.560 the family you're amongst the people that you love you know I was just talking about this after before the service it's like hey it's not a big deal right it you know that they're going to if you fumble up a little bit who cares not everybody pitches the same way you know sometimes God uses a lot of people that fumbled with their speech not everybody has to preach as good as you know the pastors you see online just because we're at a time in history where you could actually watch everybody online and you couldn't do that before you're getting letters from them and and. 01:27:08.560 --> 01:27:13.160 Who doesn't know that a letter sometimes doesn't even translate very well I mean. 01:27:14.200 --> 01:27:31.880 Believe me I've sent a numerous amount of text that I I just wish I wouldn't have sent because they read something different than what I meant in my heart right but now we get to see stuff you know and and just but don't use that to just go against people right. 01:27:31.880 --> 01:27:32.400 The. 01:27:33.240 --> 01:27:43.480 Ephesians 411 to 12 says and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ. 01:27:44.400 --> 01:28:01.760 There's no verse that says but you know not if he's related to the pastor right then it's not you know half off limits right Jesus and disciples they included biological brothers whole households believed and served together you got like a killer and Priscilla you know Paul and Timothy and tight it Paul. 01:28:01.920 --> 01:28:11.960 Both Timothy and Titus his sons in the faith and that's kind of speaks to what I'm talking about that we're all we're all just like family you get somebody saved and I guess I wouldn't do it but you can call him your son in the faith I guess you know. 01:28:12.600 --> 01:28:25.200 It's like hey I was reminded that I went so many for the first time with brother Travis but I I would never call my son in the face but I'm sure you probably got these people saved and that's why he's doing that but like you know hey. 01:28:26.160 --> 01:28:38.400 Even Jesus right he said like who is my mother who is my brethren right it's people that do the will of God if they're doing the will of God hey their family anyways you know and it should be about that. 01:28:39.360 --> 01:28:48.640 Right it's like these these men in the Bible that are these passed down bloodlines because obviously Jesus came from passed down from the line that David. 01:28:49.040 --> 01:29:01.880 Right this these family lines you know God God didn't think there was anything wrong with it you know what God doesn't like is if you're a respecter of persons to the point where you would just like disregard what God wanted you to do. 01:29:02.400 --> 01:29:13.520 And just do something different because of your your son or daughter you know and that's where you see these men getting in trouble with God but not once did he ever say you know why did you put your son in this position. 01:29:14.040 --> 01:29:24.800 You know it's like it just doesn't make sense you know it's it if somebody wants to have the job it's a good thing to want to do that's what the Bible says and I'm sure you all think that. 01:29:25.800 --> 01:29:28.680 I was called a pastor but brother Remy is a blessing here. 01:29:29.760 --> 01:29:37.480 And it you know if you did if you didn't we'll take him back so so forget you guys because he is and I know that he is right. 01:29:37.600 --> 01:29:38.240 I know that he is right. 01:29:39.440 --> 01:29:51.600 Of the truth I perceive God is no respecter of persons right there is no respect of persons with God James two nine says but if you have respect to persons he commits sin and are convinced of the laws transgressors so you know. 01:29:51.600 --> 01:30:00.760 Leader should be based on he's my son they should be based on right they should be on the ability to teach and preach which I believe brother Remy has that gift. 01:30:01.120 --> 01:30:09.640 You know and I think he's a great preacher I always enjoyed when brother Remy pre so did my wife she always would say man he always cuts to the heart. 01:30:10.280 --> 01:30:24.560 So he's always preaches something that is like nails me and you know it's that's good you know to not be afraid to preach things that are hard you know but that's what that's what he does I think you know turn to Matthew chapter five. 01:30:25.880 --> 01:30:26.160 You know. 01:30:27.360 --> 01:30:33.360 We all know we all know we're related but you know you're you never know if somebody is going to go from brethren to Gallagher. 01:30:34.200 --> 01:30:48.560 Just you just can't you can't predict that right i've seen some pretty amazing pastors you know put some lemons I guess you'd say into onto their pulpits and stuff and they didn't know I saw this recent post come up. 01:30:48.800 --> 01:30:57.840 We're rich red hot t-shirt and you can believe the false prophets that were on that thing I mean Tyler doka was on it that guy's claim to be Jesus. 01:30:58.520 --> 01:31:13.040 He was on a red hot t-shirt you guys know that I couldn't believe it so hey even these even godly men could put somebody you know in a in a position that maybe it shouldn't have been in. 01:31:13.640 --> 01:31:25.440 You know it has nothing to do with your your father or whatever right it really doesn't I don't think God sees it like that at all I mean I'm telling you man that t-shirt everybody on it was bad. 01:31:26.560 --> 01:31:37.400 But like maybe pastor ederson and I don't know pastor Jimenez was even on that one he probably was because he started the red hot I think but I think they're like the only two well they're really only they're only two really. 01:31:39.680 --> 01:31:41.280 It's like we're all family though right. 01:31:43.940 --> 01:32:10.420 Mathолет asylum consultant Bryan anthem fantasesting aired Palestinian 01:32:10.420 --> 01:32:12.620 the fact that we're all family. 01:32:12.620 --> 01:32:15.220 I just was gonna have you turn to that. 01:32:15.220 --> 01:32:18.300 Maybe I had something, you know what? 01:32:18.300 --> 01:32:20.380 I'm running low on time, so forget it. 01:32:20.380 --> 01:32:23.580 Matthew 12, though, 48 and 50 says, 01:32:23.580 --> 01:32:25.860 but he answered and said unto him that told him, 01:32:25.860 --> 01:32:28.700 "'Who is my mother and who are my brethren?' 01:32:28.700 --> 01:32:30.740 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples 01:32:30.740 --> 01:32:33.580 and said, "'Behold, my mother and my brethren, 01:32:33.580 --> 01:32:36.260 "'for whosoever shall do the will of my father 01:32:36.260 --> 01:32:38.420 "'which is in heaven the same as my brother 01:32:38.460 --> 01:32:40.820 "'and sister and mother.'" 01:32:40.820 --> 01:32:43.420 We're all related, you know? 01:32:43.420 --> 01:32:46.260 So God's not a respecter of persons, 01:32:46.260 --> 01:32:49.560 and that includes Brother Remy. 01:32:51.020 --> 01:32:54.300 And also, we're independent churches, right? 01:32:54.300 --> 01:32:56.980 So nobody can say a pastor is a respecter of persons. 01:32:56.980 --> 01:33:00.020 We don't all have to align in every single thing. 01:33:00.020 --> 01:33:02.300 That's what turns it a little cultish, 01:33:02.300 --> 01:33:05.520 where you have to have exactly the same opinion. 01:33:05.520 --> 01:33:07.720 That's where it gets a little bit weird, right? 01:33:07.720 --> 01:33:09.760 The Bible says in Galatians 1-10, 01:33:09.760 --> 01:33:11.480 for do I now persuade men or God, 01:33:11.480 --> 01:33:13.120 or do I seek to please men? 01:33:13.120 --> 01:33:14.540 For if I yet pleased men, 01:33:14.540 --> 01:33:16.360 I should not be the servant of Christ. 01:33:16.360 --> 01:33:18.880 You should be willing to have your own opinion and stance. 01:33:18.880 --> 01:33:21.120 It's like, hey, should you back it up with the Bible? 01:33:21.120 --> 01:33:22.440 Absolutely, of course. 01:33:22.440 --> 01:33:24.400 You should be able to say why you believe what you believe 01:33:24.400 --> 01:33:25.600 because of the Bible. 01:33:25.600 --> 01:33:28.240 But you know, there's still an opinion 01:33:28.240 --> 01:33:30.400 or a take you can have on a situation 01:33:30.400 --> 01:33:33.680 that can differ slightly from somebody else. 01:33:33.680 --> 01:33:34.640 It's like, that's insane. 01:33:34.640 --> 01:33:37.300 That's where it could start to get weird. 01:33:38.720 --> 01:33:41.560 And my opinions are gonna come from the Bible. 01:33:41.560 --> 01:33:43.060 Turn to Mark chapter three. 01:33:45.000 --> 01:33:47.760 If you're already in 12, just back it up a little bit. 01:33:50.080 --> 01:33:52.160 But you know, we should never look for people 01:33:52.160 --> 01:33:54.120 to be screwing up either, right? 01:33:55.480 --> 01:33:59.140 I always think it's like pitiful and pathetic, right? 01:33:59.140 --> 01:34:01.220 And strange that these trash can churches, 01:34:01.220 --> 01:34:03.540 like they watch every sermon. 01:34:03.540 --> 01:34:07.120 They try, they're just waiting for like a clip, right? 01:34:07.680 --> 01:34:11.400 Was that, were they able to do that in the Bible time? 01:34:11.400 --> 01:34:14.200 No, they weren't able to do that, right? 01:34:14.200 --> 01:34:17.360 But now they can, so you have these weirdos 01:34:17.360 --> 01:34:20.720 that can't move on with their lives that watch everything. 01:34:20.720 --> 01:34:22.560 Or they have their minions do it and pass, 01:34:22.560 --> 01:34:24.280 oh, they're like, some pastors are like, 01:34:24.280 --> 01:34:25.240 well, I don't watch it. 01:34:25.240 --> 01:34:26.720 Somebody just sends it to me. 01:34:26.720 --> 01:34:29.260 They want that, they want that. 01:34:29.260 --> 01:34:30.600 But they're looking for something 01:34:30.600 --> 01:34:34.080 and we should never be like this, right? 01:34:34.120 --> 01:34:37.920 Have that trash can, it's not normal behavior, right? 01:34:37.920 --> 01:34:39.920 You know what normal Christians do? 01:34:39.920 --> 01:34:42.440 They watch sermons for edification. 01:34:42.440 --> 01:34:44.360 They watch, like I watch Brother Remy 01:34:44.360 --> 01:34:47.300 for edification from his sermons. 01:34:47.300 --> 01:34:49.080 I watch some of the other pastors. 01:34:49.080 --> 01:34:52.000 I watch Pastor Anderson, I watch Pastor Shelley, 01:34:52.000 --> 01:34:53.440 I watch Pastor Mejia. 01:34:53.440 --> 01:34:54.520 You know, you can't watch everybody, 01:34:54.520 --> 01:34:57.640 but you know, I try to watch as much as I can too. 01:34:58.840 --> 01:35:00.640 But I watch Brother Sean Conlon. 01:35:00.640 --> 01:35:03.080 I try to watch our churches, right, too. 01:35:03.080 --> 01:35:05.640 Because I work from home, so I have the benefit 01:35:05.640 --> 01:35:08.840 of being able to at least even have them on while I work. 01:35:08.840 --> 01:35:12.120 That is a blessing that most people do not have. 01:35:12.120 --> 01:35:14.680 So you don't get everything, but you get a lot. 01:35:14.680 --> 01:35:17.520 But you watch it for edification. 01:35:17.520 --> 01:35:20.420 That's what a normal person does. 01:35:20.420 --> 01:35:22.360 You know what a weirdo does? 01:35:22.360 --> 01:35:26.120 They watch it so they can see where you screw up 01:35:26.120 --> 01:35:28.960 or find something to blame you with, right? 01:35:29.780 --> 01:35:30.840 That's wicked. 01:35:30.840 --> 01:35:32.720 That's like a Pharisee, right? 01:35:33.320 --> 01:35:34.240 Look at verse two, it says, 01:35:34.240 --> 01:35:37.040 And they watched him, whether he would heal 01:35:37.040 --> 01:35:40.000 on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. 01:35:40.000 --> 01:35:42.720 See, that's a Pharisee type of a mentality. 01:35:42.720 --> 01:35:44.260 That's a wicked mentality. 01:35:44.260 --> 01:35:45.980 Somebody who just watches your sermon 01:35:45.980 --> 01:35:47.760 so that they can just like find something 01:35:47.760 --> 01:35:49.200 to throw in your face. 01:35:49.200 --> 01:35:52.640 Dude, stay away from a wicked person like that. 01:35:52.640 --> 01:35:54.540 It's trashcan behavior. 01:35:54.540 --> 01:35:57.480 So if that ever infiltrated into our churches, 01:35:57.480 --> 01:35:59.020 it should be called out. 01:35:59.020 --> 01:36:00.160 Because you know what? 01:36:00.160 --> 01:36:02.920 Those people that exhibit the trashcan behavior 01:36:02.920 --> 01:36:05.800 usually turn into trashcan people, right? 01:36:05.800 --> 01:36:07.960 They're people that get called out. 01:36:07.960 --> 01:36:09.380 Because they don't see that they've got 01:36:09.380 --> 01:36:11.240 this big old beam in their eye. 01:36:12.360 --> 01:36:13.880 And then they're trying to point out a moat 01:36:13.880 --> 01:36:14.920 in somebody else's eye. 01:36:14.920 --> 01:36:17.320 And then if you try to highlight that to them, 01:36:17.320 --> 01:36:19.000 then they're, oh man, they're screaming. 01:36:19.000 --> 01:36:21.440 All of a sudden, they know the Bible all of a sudden. 01:36:21.440 --> 01:36:23.160 They're just like, oh, look what he's doing. 01:36:23.160 --> 01:36:25.080 He's calling me out. 01:36:25.080 --> 01:36:26.360 Shut up. 01:36:26.360 --> 01:36:29.400 You're watching sermons so that you could call people out. 01:36:30.840 --> 01:36:32.320 I hear that this stuff happens. 01:36:32.320 --> 01:36:33.480 It's wicked. 01:36:33.480 --> 01:36:35.680 The Bible says in Psalm 37, 32, 01:36:35.680 --> 01:36:39.360 the wicked watches the righteous and seek it to slay him. 01:36:39.360 --> 01:36:40.880 We should never have that attitude 01:36:40.880 --> 01:36:43.520 where you hate your brother because you're a murderer. 01:36:44.620 --> 01:36:47.080 It's the wicked that are watching righteous people 01:36:47.080 --> 01:36:49.320 just to look for them to fall. 01:36:49.320 --> 01:36:53.780 It's a Pharisee, holier than thou type behavior. 01:36:53.780 --> 01:36:55.120 You're lying in wait. 01:36:55.120 --> 01:36:56.640 You're a whisperer, you're a backbiter, 01:36:56.640 --> 01:36:59.520 you're a gossiper, you're a tale bearer. 01:36:59.520 --> 01:37:01.560 It's a wicked, it's not normal. 01:37:01.560 --> 01:37:03.520 It is not a normal behavior. 01:37:03.520 --> 01:37:05.240 John 13, 34, 35 says, 01:37:05.240 --> 01:37:06.560 A new commandment I give unto you 01:37:06.560 --> 01:37:08.800 that ye love one another as I have loved you 01:37:08.800 --> 01:37:10.500 and ye also love one another. 01:37:10.500 --> 01:37:13.400 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples 01:37:13.400 --> 01:37:15.160 if ye have loved one to another. 01:37:15.160 --> 01:37:16.720 We're supposed to love one another. 01:37:16.720 --> 01:37:20.240 I mean, and that transcends everything. 01:37:20.240 --> 01:37:22.200 That goes to the other churches as well. 01:37:22.200 --> 01:37:24.880 That's why you could be so happy and blessed 01:37:24.880 --> 01:37:26.440 to see people you just barely met. 01:37:26.440 --> 01:37:28.280 Like, you know, I keep bringing them up, 01:37:28.280 --> 01:37:30.960 but like, it's nice to see them. 01:37:30.960 --> 01:37:33.000 I still remember going soul-winding with them. 01:37:33.000 --> 01:37:36.080 You know, and it's like you're visiting family again. 01:37:36.080 --> 01:37:37.720 It's not like weird or anything. 01:37:37.720 --> 01:37:39.480 We go out to dinner and we just can't leave. 01:37:39.480 --> 01:37:40.960 We're stuck in the parking lot. 01:37:40.960 --> 01:37:42.800 You know, just keep talking and talking, 01:37:42.800 --> 01:37:44.400 and next thing you know, brother Ryan's like, 01:37:44.400 --> 01:37:46.640 did you stay up till midnight too? 01:37:46.640 --> 01:37:48.080 I couldn't even sleep. 01:37:48.080 --> 01:37:50.240 You know, like, you get like amped up 01:37:50.240 --> 01:37:52.360 because you get encouraged, you get it refreshed. 01:37:52.360 --> 01:37:54.920 We should be looking to encourage and refresh one another, 01:37:54.920 --> 01:37:57.120 not beat one another down. 01:37:57.120 --> 01:37:59.320 It's like, that's wicked. 01:37:59.320 --> 01:38:01.960 You know, and 1 Peter 4, 8 says, 01:38:01.960 --> 01:38:06.880 and above all things have fervent charity among yourselves, 01:38:06.880 --> 01:38:10.040 for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 01:38:10.040 --> 01:38:13.120 It didn't say, you know, charity uncovers all the things 01:38:13.120 --> 01:38:15.840 that I see that you're screwing up on. 01:38:15.840 --> 01:38:17.000 That's a weirdo. 01:38:17.000 --> 01:38:18.080 That's a weirdo, right? 01:38:18.080 --> 01:38:20.640 And I love my pastor because he believes this verse. 01:38:20.640 --> 01:38:24.320 My pastor has fervent charity, right? 01:38:24.320 --> 01:38:25.640 And that's his son. 01:38:25.640 --> 01:38:28.440 I believe brother Reming has fervent charity too, right? 01:38:29.840 --> 01:38:30.940 You don't have to turn there, 01:38:30.940 --> 01:38:33.600 but the charity chapter in 1 Corinthians says, 01:38:33.600 --> 01:38:37.680 charity suffereth long and is kind. 01:38:37.680 --> 01:38:40.520 Charity envieth not, charity vaunteth not itself up, 01:38:40.520 --> 01:38:44.760 is not puffed up, does not behave itself unseemly, 01:38:44.760 --> 01:38:47.920 seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, 01:38:47.920 --> 01:38:52.060 thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, 01:38:52.060 --> 01:38:55.280 but rejoiceth in truth, beareth all things. 01:38:55.920 --> 01:38:57.000 It didn't say beareth some things. 01:38:57.000 --> 01:38:59.040 Beareth all things, right? 01:38:59.040 --> 01:39:01.220 Believeth all things. 01:39:01.220 --> 01:39:03.520 And that doesn't mean like you just believe anything 01:39:03.520 --> 01:39:04.800 that even if it's not true, right? 01:39:04.800 --> 01:39:07.560 It means you think the best of somebody, right? 01:39:07.560 --> 01:39:10.760 You believe that, hey, their intentions are right. 01:39:10.760 --> 01:39:12.760 Maybe if you have a question about something, 01:39:12.760 --> 01:39:14.440 you could ask somebody about something too 01:39:14.440 --> 01:39:16.440 if you kind of disagree on a topic, 01:39:16.440 --> 01:39:19.800 but you're not thinking the worst of them, right? 01:39:19.800 --> 01:39:23.140 Hopeeth all things, endureth all things, right? 01:39:23.140 --> 01:39:26.540 It's best to believe the best about the brethren, right? 01:39:27.460 --> 01:39:29.460 And obviously we all say by faith we know that, 01:39:29.460 --> 01:39:33.500 but through our love of the word of God, 01:39:33.500 --> 01:39:36.580 we add to that faith charity, right? 01:39:37.900 --> 01:39:39.480 Content for that faith too. 01:39:39.480 --> 01:39:42.020 Second Peter 1.5 through seven says, 01:39:42.020 --> 01:39:44.220 "'And besides this, giving all diligence 01:39:44.220 --> 01:39:46.860 "'and to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, 01:39:46.860 --> 01:39:49.540 "'and to knowledge temperance, and temperance patience, 01:39:49.540 --> 01:39:51.840 "'and to patience godliness, and to godliness, 01:39:51.880 --> 01:39:53.160 "'and to brotherly kindness, 01:39:53.160 --> 01:39:56.840 "'and to brotherly kindness, charity.'" 01:39:56.840 --> 01:40:00.220 It's like the culmination of your faith, charity, right? 01:40:01.320 --> 01:40:03.360 And that's actually what will endure. 01:40:03.360 --> 01:40:04.960 It is the culmination of your faith, 01:40:04.960 --> 01:40:07.560 but if you show me someone who's just watching sermons 01:40:07.560 --> 01:40:08.940 to find something that's wrong, 01:40:08.940 --> 01:40:12.100 I'm gonna show you a wicked person with no charity, right? 01:40:13.040 --> 01:40:14.920 Probably has a lot of beams in their eye, 01:40:14.920 --> 01:40:17.840 but somehow with that impeded vision, 01:40:17.840 --> 01:40:20.000 they could see all your moats, right? 01:40:21.000 --> 01:40:23.600 It's like, and they're just waiting to point them out. 01:40:23.600 --> 01:40:25.040 It's just that critical person. 01:40:25.040 --> 01:40:27.400 It's like, hey, that's disgusting. 01:40:29.900 --> 01:40:31.900 It's something we should never do, right? 01:40:33.760 --> 01:40:35.560 We gotta contend for the right things. 01:40:35.560 --> 01:40:39.840 Stick to things too that you actually can know, 01:40:39.840 --> 01:40:41.560 I will add too, right? 01:40:41.560 --> 01:40:44.340 I hate this when people actually form their judgment 01:40:44.340 --> 01:40:46.540 of things they couldn't possibly know. 01:40:47.560 --> 01:40:49.080 Righteous judgment. 01:40:49.080 --> 01:40:52.080 It's not righteous judgment to base what you believe 01:40:52.080 --> 01:40:55.160 and think off of the things that you could not possibly know. 01:40:55.160 --> 01:40:57.640 I mean, I saw this happen a lot, really, 01:40:57.640 --> 01:41:00.880 in a lot of scenarios that would cause 01:41:00.880 --> 01:41:03.200 like the new IV drama and stuff like that, right? 01:41:03.200 --> 01:41:04.760 Even with Pastor Anderson, right? 01:41:04.760 --> 01:41:08.320 It's happened to our pastor, where people have made 01:41:08.320 --> 01:41:10.720 judgment against him for the things 01:41:10.720 --> 01:41:13.640 that they did not know at all. 01:41:13.640 --> 01:41:16.360 And it's wicked, because we're supposed 01:41:16.360 --> 01:41:18.020 to have righteous judgment. 01:41:18.020 --> 01:41:21.020 Righteous judgment means you would know it, 01:41:21.020 --> 01:41:23.240 because it's based on truth. 01:41:23.240 --> 01:41:25.740 It's based on actual truth, 01:41:25.740 --> 01:41:28.340 truth that you actually would know. 01:41:28.340 --> 01:41:30.700 And a lot of people do not know some of the things 01:41:30.700 --> 01:41:33.700 that they exhibit judgment on. 01:41:33.700 --> 01:41:34.740 I think that's wicked. 01:41:35.700 --> 01:41:38.380 You know, like for example, I have a strong opinion 01:41:38.380 --> 01:41:40.860 about who silenced Snakey, you know? 01:41:40.860 --> 01:41:44.500 But you guys don't know the Snakey story, probably. 01:41:44.500 --> 01:41:46.920 I see some confused looks over here, right? 01:41:46.960 --> 01:41:48.840 Maybe Brother Remy will tell you about Snakey. 01:41:48.840 --> 01:41:50.940 He preached about him in a sermon, you know? 01:41:50.940 --> 01:41:52.960 But I'm not gonna base my judgment 01:41:52.960 --> 01:41:55.760 against who I believe was the culprit. 01:41:55.760 --> 01:41:57.800 I wasn't there, right? 01:41:57.800 --> 01:42:00.280 So it's like, I couldn't possibly know. 01:42:00.280 --> 01:42:02.520 I wasn't in his house, right? 01:42:02.520 --> 01:42:04.720 So it's just an example that none of you know, 01:42:04.720 --> 01:42:06.760 because everyone looks confused right now, 01:42:06.760 --> 01:42:07.760 besides Brother Remy. 01:42:07.760 --> 01:42:09.540 But ask him about Snakey, 01:42:09.540 --> 01:42:11.600 maybe he'll bring it up in a sermon. 01:42:11.600 --> 01:42:14.740 But back to contending, turn to Matthew chapter six. 01:42:17.600 --> 01:42:19.760 If the word of God, oh man, I'm over, I'm sorry. 01:42:19.760 --> 01:42:21.940 If the word of God, though, is as important 01:42:21.940 --> 01:42:23.960 as we believe that it is, 01:42:25.880 --> 01:42:27.800 God has to have preserved it. 01:42:30.640 --> 01:42:31.860 He has to have preserved it, 01:42:31.860 --> 01:42:33.180 because Romans 5.13 says, 01:42:33.180 --> 01:42:34.800 "'For until the law, sin was in the world, 01:42:34.800 --> 01:42:37.540 "'but sin is not imputed when there is no law.'" 01:42:37.540 --> 01:42:39.160 So if there wasn't any law of God, 01:42:39.160 --> 01:42:41.660 sin wouldn't be imputed on us. 01:42:41.660 --> 01:42:44.360 They had to know what they're doing wrong, right? 01:42:44.360 --> 01:42:45.920 They had to have been told by God. 01:42:45.920 --> 01:42:49.320 But if you can't even trust the accuracy of it, 01:42:49.320 --> 01:42:50.680 if he didn't preserve it, 01:42:50.680 --> 01:42:52.680 if you couldn't say that this is really what, 01:42:52.680 --> 01:42:54.280 thus saith the Lord, 01:42:54.280 --> 01:42:56.200 I mean, that'd be kind of mean 01:42:56.200 --> 01:42:58.040 if he held it against you then. 01:42:58.040 --> 01:42:59.900 I mean, it has to be preserved. 01:43:03.320 --> 01:43:04.480 Job said, 01:43:04.480 --> 01:43:06.200 "'But he knoweth the way that I take, 01:43:06.200 --> 01:43:07.980 "'when he hath tried me, I shall come forth his goal, 01:43:07.980 --> 01:43:10.060 "'and my foot hath held his steps, 01:43:10.060 --> 01:43:11.740 "'his way have I kept and not declined, 01:43:11.740 --> 01:43:13.740 "'neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips, 01:43:13.740 --> 01:43:16.580 "'I have esteemed the words of his mouth 01:43:16.580 --> 01:43:18.740 "'more than my necessary food.'" 01:43:20.140 --> 01:43:24.220 So it's better than your food, the word of God. 01:43:24.220 --> 01:43:26.880 It's more important and necessary to you 01:43:26.880 --> 01:43:27.980 than the food that we eat, 01:43:27.980 --> 01:43:30.020 which if you don't eat it, you'll die. 01:43:30.020 --> 01:43:32.780 So if it's that important, 01:43:32.780 --> 01:43:35.180 if God is gonna test us by it, right, 01:43:35.180 --> 01:43:36.600 he's going to prove us. 01:43:36.600 --> 01:43:37.860 That's what he does. 01:43:37.860 --> 01:43:40.820 That's why it is important not to just get saved 01:43:40.820 --> 01:43:43.380 any which way you want, although you can. 01:43:43.380 --> 01:43:45.660 But it's not a good way to live, right? 01:43:45.660 --> 01:43:48.180 Or your obedience is gonna be tied directly 01:43:48.180 --> 01:43:51.820 to how much you actually read that word of God 01:43:51.820 --> 01:43:55.020 and hear that word of God and do it also, right? 01:43:55.020 --> 01:43:56.620 Not for your salvation, right? 01:43:56.620 --> 01:43:58.940 For James 2, you know, faith without works is dead, 01:43:58.940 --> 01:44:00.880 is because it's alone, 01:44:00.880 --> 01:44:02.260 because you're not doing the things 01:44:02.260 --> 01:44:05.100 that would show people that you have that faith 01:44:05.100 --> 01:44:07.800 and that you love God and that you love your fellow man. 01:44:07.800 --> 01:44:10.500 You know, you should be doing the things of God, you should, 01:44:10.500 --> 01:44:13.180 but you only must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:44:13.180 --> 01:44:15.700 We all know that, right? 01:44:15.700 --> 01:44:20.700 And I told you to turn to Matthew 6, 11. 01:44:22.060 --> 01:44:24.100 It says, give us this day our daily bread. 01:44:25.540 --> 01:44:26.980 I guess I didn't have to have you turn all the way there 01:44:26.980 --> 01:44:28.900 for that, I could have just told you that one. 01:44:28.900 --> 01:44:31.940 I just wanted you to turn to Psalm. 01:44:31.940 --> 01:44:35.100 I didn't include that in here, turn to this very often. 01:44:35.100 --> 01:44:38.660 But you know, it's, God will prove what's in your heart. 01:44:38.660 --> 01:44:41.100 He is, the word of God is a discerner of the thoughts 01:44:41.100 --> 01:44:42.140 and intents of the heart. 01:44:42.140 --> 01:44:44.260 So again, it's gotta be preserved 01:44:44.260 --> 01:44:46.580 if it's what's used to discern the thoughts 01:44:46.580 --> 01:44:47.900 and intents of our heart. 01:44:47.900 --> 01:44:50.100 And we know that that is true. 01:44:50.100 --> 01:44:52.740 I mean, there's so many verses, it's like, 01:44:52.740 --> 01:44:55.060 I'm already over, but like, there's just tons of verses. 01:44:55.060 --> 01:44:57.860 Thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, 01:44:57.860 --> 01:44:59.260 it says in Deuteronomy. 01:44:59.260 --> 01:45:03.140 It says, cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words 01:45:03.140 --> 01:45:05.820 of this law to do them, and all the people shall say, 01:45:05.820 --> 01:45:06.660 Amen. 01:45:06.660 --> 01:45:07.740 Amen. 01:45:07.740 --> 01:45:09.420 Maybe not all the people, but. 01:45:09.420 --> 01:45:11.400 We're in church, but that is what the verse said. 01:45:11.400 --> 01:45:12.480 I'm just reading the verse. 01:45:12.480 --> 01:45:17.000 You know, but, thou shalt not go aside from any of the words 01:45:17.000 --> 01:45:18.760 which I command thee this day, God said, 01:45:18.760 --> 01:45:20.560 to the right hand or to the left, 01:45:20.560 --> 01:45:22.440 to go to other gods to serve them. 01:45:22.440 --> 01:45:24.560 But yet, he didn't preserve it. 01:45:24.560 --> 01:45:27.720 But you can't go to the right or the left. 01:45:27.720 --> 01:45:29.960 But you can't know, it's just like the map's 01:45:29.960 --> 01:45:31.640 all screwed up though. 01:45:31.640 --> 01:45:32.920 It doesn't make any sense. 01:45:32.920 --> 01:45:34.920 He says all the words. 01:45:34.920 --> 01:45:37.620 Do these scoffers have an all the word Bible? 01:45:38.960 --> 01:45:40.280 They don't. 01:45:41.000 --> 01:45:42.440 But we do. 01:45:42.440 --> 01:45:45.360 I mean, it's insane. 01:45:45.360 --> 01:45:47.160 I mean, it is insane. 01:45:47.160 --> 01:45:50.200 And just because I've got way too much, way too many pages. 01:45:50.200 --> 01:45:53.120 I told Brother Remy I probably could have done a part two. 01:45:54.160 --> 01:45:58.680 But, it's like, there's a, let's just turn to Isaiah 01:45:58.680 --> 01:46:01.540 chapter 40, we'll just finish with this one. 01:46:01.540 --> 01:46:04.820 Look, the attack though on the King James Bible is real. 01:46:04.820 --> 01:46:09.820 It is something that like, it should make us want 01:46:09.820 --> 01:46:11.300 to defend it, it really should. 01:46:11.300 --> 01:46:15.220 And with the Bible, but also learn what you can 01:46:15.220 --> 01:46:18.820 about some of these points that people use against us. 01:46:18.820 --> 01:46:22.580 Because we do know that if God says anything 01:46:22.580 --> 01:46:26.300 that's not true, then God is a liar. 01:46:26.300 --> 01:46:28.060 And God is not a liar. 01:46:28.060 --> 01:46:29.140 We know that. 01:46:29.140 --> 01:46:31.700 None of those people would say that they believe that he is, 01:46:31.700 --> 01:46:33.860 but they have to actually believe that 01:46:33.860 --> 01:46:35.740 to say that he couldn't preserve the word of God 01:46:35.740 --> 01:46:38.540 because there's just too many verses that have been. 01:46:40.500 --> 01:46:44.180 That speak to him saying, hey, not one jot or tittle. 01:46:44.180 --> 01:46:46.740 Don't change it, your name's getting removed 01:46:46.740 --> 01:46:47.820 from the book of life. 01:46:47.820 --> 01:46:51.380 I mean, the consequences are pretty dire, right? 01:46:51.380 --> 01:46:56.140 But yet, still, it's not preserved. 01:46:56.140 --> 01:46:59.780 It doesn't make sense at all. 01:46:59.780 --> 01:47:02.740 And it should cause us to just wanna really be 01:47:02.740 --> 01:47:04.140 well-versed on the topic. 01:47:04.140 --> 01:47:08.920 Isaiah 48 says, the grass witheredeth, the flower fadedeth, 01:47:08.960 --> 01:47:13.960 but the words of our God shall stand forever. 01:47:13.980 --> 01:47:15.720 Forever, believe that. 01:47:15.720 --> 01:47:17.280 We believe that, right? 01:47:17.280 --> 01:47:19.200 I know it's an echo chamber a bit in here. 01:47:19.200 --> 01:47:20.400 I can even hear it in the mic. 01:47:20.400 --> 01:47:25.400 But it is true, and we have to be willing to scream 01:47:26.320 --> 01:47:29.320 that from the housetops and be proud of it. 01:47:29.320 --> 01:47:30.360 Be proud of it. 01:47:30.360 --> 01:47:33.880 There are actually, I'll just say this just to say 01:47:33.880 --> 01:47:35.000 it's kind of embarrassing. 01:47:35.000 --> 01:47:37.360 There was a time where sometimes I didn't wanna wear 01:47:37.360 --> 01:47:40.560 my KJV-only shirt just because somebody might look at me 01:47:40.560 --> 01:47:42.640 and say something weird because I started getting 01:47:42.640 --> 01:47:47.120 so much grief for it when I had just become KJV-only 01:47:47.120 --> 01:47:51.160 and stuff like, you wanna support and stuff like that. 01:47:51.160 --> 01:47:52.800 Don't be like that. 01:47:52.800 --> 01:47:56.720 Don't let the world conform you into their ways of thinking. 01:47:56.720 --> 01:47:59.160 Stand on the word of God because we do have a Bible 01:47:59.160 --> 01:48:00.080 we can count on. 01:48:00.080 --> 01:48:03.040 We know it, but let's read it, let's study it, 01:48:03.040 --> 01:48:04.400 meditate on it. 01:48:04.400 --> 01:48:06.580 Every day is our daily bread. 01:48:06.580 --> 01:48:10.500 And let's support the KJV-only stance. 01:48:10.500 --> 01:48:12.060 Contend for the faith with that. 01:48:12.060 --> 01:48:12.900 Let's pray. 01:48:12.900 --> 01:48:14.340 Dear Heavenly Father, I just thank you for the word of God. 01:48:14.340 --> 01:48:16.220 I thank you for how much it means to us 01:48:16.220 --> 01:48:18.020 for every aspect of our lives. 01:48:18.020 --> 01:48:21.300 I pray that we would all just grow in faith and charity 01:48:21.300 --> 01:48:23.140 and that we would cherish the word of God 01:48:23.140 --> 01:48:25.700 and study it and memorize it and learn it 01:48:25.700 --> 01:48:29.300 and just seek to please you and be pleasing in your sight, 01:48:29.300 --> 01:48:30.140 Lord. 01:48:30.140 --> 01:48:32.660 Help us out slowly today and for the remainder of the day 01:48:32.660 --> 01:48:33.500 as well. 01:48:33.500 --> 01:48:34.320 In Jesus' name, amen. 01:48:34.320 --> 01:48:35.160 Amen. 01:48:36.580 --> 01:48:37.420 Amen. 01:48:42.460 --> 01:48:44.220 All right, if you wanna go ahead and take your hymn rolls, 01:48:44.220 --> 01:48:46.580 we're gonna turn to page number 44. 01:48:51.940 --> 01:48:54.820 Page number 44. 01:48:57.300 --> 01:48:59.140 We'll work till Jesus comes. 01:49:02.980 --> 01:49:05.180 Page number 44. 01:49:06.580 --> 01:49:09.340 ["Land of Rest"] 01:49:14.460 --> 01:49:19.380 O land of rest for thee we sigh, 01:49:19.380 --> 01:49:24.140 when will the moment come 01:49:24.140 --> 01:49:29.020 when I shall lay my armor by 01:49:29.020 --> 01:49:33.660 and dwell in peace at home. 01:49:33.700 --> 01:49:38.580 We'll work till Jesus comes. 01:49:38.580 --> 01:49:43.260 We'll work till Jesus comes. 01:49:43.260 --> 01:49:47.980 We'll work till Jesus comes 01:49:47.980 --> 01:49:52.700 and we'll be gathered home. 01:49:52.700 --> 01:49:57.700 To Jesus Christ I flee for as he bade me cease to roam 01:49:57.700 --> 01:50:02.700 and lean for succor on his breast 01:50:02.700 --> 01:50:07.700 till he'll be gathered home. 01:50:07.700 --> 01:50:12.700 We'll work till Jesus comes. 01:50:12.700 --> 01:50:17.700 We'll work till Jesus comes. 01:50:17.700 --> 01:50:22.700 We'll work till Jesus comes 01:50:22.700 --> 01:50:25.700 and we'll be gathered home. 01:50:25.700 --> 01:50:30.700 I sought out once my Savior's side, 01:50:30.700 --> 01:50:34.700 no more my steps shall roam. 01:50:34.700 --> 01:50:39.700 With him I'll breathe much chilling tide 01:50:39.700 --> 01:50:44.700 and reach my heavenly home. 01:50:44.700 --> 01:50:49.700 We'll work till Jesus comes. 01:50:49.700 --> 01:50:54.700 We'll work till Jesus comes. 01:50:54.700 --> 01:50:59.700 We'll work till Jesus comes. 01:50:59.700 --> 01:51:04.700 We'll work till Jesus comes 01:51:04.700 --> 01:51:07.700 and we'll be gathered home. 01:51:07.700 --> 01:51:09.700 Alright, excellent singing everybody. 01:51:09.700 --> 01:51:11.700 Brother Paul, would you please close the door of prayer? 01:51:11.700 --> 01:51:13.700 Thank you so much for allowing us to give this press. 01:51:13.700 --> 01:51:17.700 We have finally announced that the Lord gave us truly pure words 01:51:17.700 --> 01:51:20.700 so that it's not defiled in the world. 01:51:20.700 --> 01:51:21.700 Amen. 01:51:24.700 --> 01:51:25.700 Amen.