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And Jeremiah chapter 26, the Bible reads in verse number 1, In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from the Lord, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah which come to worship in the Lord's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them, diminish not a word. And that's such a great statement there. Don't even leave one single word out of what I'm telling you to preach. Now the reason that that's significant is in just a few verses, they're going to be trying to have him executed. They're going to be trying to put him to death for what he preached. And that's why God tells him, don't even diminish a single word of it, because there could be a temptation there when you're preaching a message that's going to make people so mad that you're actually going to be in trouble with the law and you might even be put to death, there's going to be a temptation to trim the message, maybe just a little bit, maybe just cut out some of the most offensive parts, and God says don't diminish a word. And I promise you that God's message to the preachers of America today in 2016, it hasn't changed, it's diminish not a word. In fact, that's a great title for a sermon. Diminish not a word. Don't leave anything out. And there are so many preachers today that they preach a lot of good things, but the problem with them is not what they do preach, it's what they don't preach. It's what they're leaving out that's the problem. And people have their pet Bible teacher that tells them everything that they want to hear. What's wrong with him? Everything he preaches is right. Okay, but what about everything he refuses to cover? What about everything he refuses to preach? And there are so many independent fundamental Baptists today, they're almost like a fundamentalist Joel Osteen, where they're King James and they're fundamental, but they only preach that which people want to hear, and they're diminishing whole sections of the Bible that are unpopular. There are parts of the Bible that if you preach them, you're going to make people upset, you're going to receive persecution, and many preachers are leaving things out, and God says don't even diminish a single word. So that's the primary application here, where he's talking to a preacher and giving him the Word of God and saying preach all of it. Don't diminish even a single word. But also this scripture shows us how of course when it comes to the written Bible, he doesn't want us to diminish a single word from the written word either. And that's what's wrong with the NIV, and that's what's wrong with the ESV, and that's what's wrong with the New... Well, you say, well, the New King James is just a little different. Hey, don't diminish a word. And there's a lot more than one word missing from that New King James. There's something missing from every page of that New King James version. Don't even diminish a word. God doesn't say, well, just get the gist across. Just get the general idea. He says, no, no, word for word.