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low above the earth, rang out the angel's chorus that hailed the Savior's birth. Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere. Go tell it on the mountain, that Jesus Christ is born. Down in a lonely manger, there a whole Christ was born. And God sent a salvation, that blessed Christmas morn. Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere. Go tell it on the mountain, that Jesus Christ is born. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, Lord, again, we just want to thank you, God, for this Sunday morning that you've given us, that you have allowed us to be here, Lord, just to hear you were preached. We pray, Lord, now that you would just be honored and glorified out of everything that's said and done. Be with our pastor, be with the soul-winning. We love you, for it's in Jesus' name we ask all of it. Amen. All right, you may be seated. And in your Mountain Baptist Psalm books, turn to page number six. Page number six in your Mountain Baptist Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Psalm books. We'll sing Psalm 96, and that's on page number six. Oh, sing unto the Lord a new song. Sing unto the Lord all the earth. Sing unto the Lord, bless His name. Show forth His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the heathen, His wonders among all people. For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised. He is to be feared above all gods. Give unto the Lord, all ye kindreds of the people. Give unto the Lord glory and strength. Oh, sing unto the Lord a new song. Sing unto the Lord all the earth. Sing unto the Lord, bless His name. Show forth His salvation from day to day. For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. Honor and majesty are before Him. Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. Give unto the Lord, all ye kindreds of the people. Give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name. Bring an offering and come into His courts. Oh, worship the Lord and the beauty of holiness before all the earth. Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth. The world also shall be established that it shall not be moved. He shall judge the people righteously. Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad. Let the sea roar and the fullness thereof. Let the field be joyful and all that's therein. Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord, for He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness and the people with His truth. Oh, sing unto the Lord a new song. Sing unto the Lord all the earth. Sing unto the Lord, bless His name. Show forth His salvation from day to day. Hey, if anybody needs to be baptized, we have it ready to go. I think next week there's someone that's going to be coming in that needs to get baptized. So we'll have it ready next week as well. But anyway, as far as the church times go, everything is normal today. So we'll have our afternoon service at 4 p.m. Before that we'll have our soul winning time at 1 p.m. So meet up here right before 1 o'clock. We'll get teamed up to go out soul winning. And then the regional soul winning time is on here. Just be on the church group there to know the times, locations. I know Brother Wade, I think he's going to be out still this coming Saturday. I think he comes back the 11th. Is it 13th? Anyway, I'm pretty sure it's after next weekend or this coming weekend. So anyway, be in prayer for him though. He's out in the Philippines. I know he's personally had six salvations at least since he's been sending us messages and everything. So be in prayer for him with safe travels and everything there. And just be in prayer for those that aren't feeling well. I know some are dealing with some colds or just different things like that. So be in prayer there when it comes to that. Tis the season for everything to go around. And then so this coming Saturday, we're going to have our Mountain Baptist Church Christmas party. And so that will be 1.30. And so if you want to come to that, we have the list on the refrigerator over there. So if you want to basically bring any type of main course meal, dessert or you don't have to bring anything. But the list is really just to show what everybody's bringing and if we need to get stuff, we'll get it. So we'll have food either way. And then as far as the Christmas party goes, we're going to have some games and stuff like that. We are going to do the White Elephant Gift Exchange. So that is basically where you bring in a gift for each person that's playing. We'll have it for the adults and we'll have it for the kids. So there's two separate games if you will. And so if you want your kids to play, just bring something that's for each one of the kids that's playing. Same thing with the adults. I think what we were saying is like $5 for kids gifts, $10 for adults. And again, when it comes to this stuff, for whatever reason, you're like, hey I'm strapped. I can't afford it or whatever. No judgment. We'll get you something there. So if you want to play, then we'll make sure that you're taken care of there. And then as far as games and stuff like that, we'll have some Bible trivia type stuff. Different things like that when it comes to that. We have the Women's Prayer meeting on here on the 22nd and the Men's Prayer meeting on the 29th. This year we're not doing an up all night type of New Year's thing because the 31st is a Sunday. So I don't know about you, but I don't know if I can handle church all day and then just staying up until midnight. Actually, I can't handle standing up until midnight in general when it comes to actually doing that. But on top of that, church days, when people say that Sunday is our Sabbath, where are you going to church? Because I'm toast. Sunday is probably the hardest day when it comes to work and everything else. So we're not going to do that this year, but maybe next year we'll do the up all night type of thing when it's not on a Sunday. Or it's not the day before Sunday. So that's where it's been kind of landing. As far as our church service on Christmas Eve, we are going to do a normal church service as far as that. I think last year we did kind of like an extended morning when it came to it being on Christmas and everything. And we kind of just sang a whole bunch of hymns and everything else. I think we're just going to keep it normal this year. It's Christmas Eve, so we'll have the soul winning time, all that stuff. But if you would rather do soul winning the day before, obviously you all have liberty to go soul winning whenever you want. I want you to know that. If you want to go soul winning, you don't have to ask me for permission to go soul winning. But if you ever need help of knowing where to go or saying, hey I'm going to go out this day, just let us know and we'll help you out. But you're welcome to go soul winning every single day of the week if you want to. Obviously if you're representing our church well and you're not being a big dumb animal when it comes to soul winning. But anyway, when it comes to soul winning, we have a soul winning marathon coming up here on the 16th. So that's in Parkersburg. So get with brother Matt if you're wanting to go out for that. There's also a church group set up for that as well. And our chapter memory for the month is Luke chapter 2. Now I know there's like 52 verses I think in Luke chapter 2. So you may not get through it all, but the premise here is to memorize the Christmas story. So that's less than half of the chapter if you get through the Christmas story. So I think that I have a goal of memorizing the whole chapter. But if you start it and you get like halfway through it, then you memorize the Christmas story. So that's kind of how I'm rolling with this as far as the chapter memory. But Luke chapter 2, I mean all of Luke chapter 2 is amazing. But the first half of it really is dealing with the Christmas story there. So we're going to have that as our memory chapter for the month. And then Isaiah 7 14 is our memory verse for the week. And so throughout the month of December we're going to have like kind of Christmas verse memory and everything. But Isaiah 7 14, therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel. So that's our memory verse for the week. And then birthdays. So brother Justin Alesco, your birthday is coming up right? So on Tuesday? How old are you going to be brother? 34? Still young. We have a lot of, I'd say like probably, well I could be wrong on that. Most of the men in here like in their 30s? I know we got the 20s, you know, these young kids. Not you. Not brother Levi. He is younger than me though. But so we got brother Alesco. So Quinn, are they out today? So we'll remember there. And then Hunter. Hunter Jones. How old is Hunter going to be? Eight. They'll have to think about it. When you have that many kids, I mean it's like you got to start, I mean try to remember the dates on all those too, you know. So right now mine are really kind of easy because they were born 2015, 17, 19, 21, 23. So it's like if the next one is born like on an even number, I'm not going to know what to do. Be like all messed up. Not that we're expecting right now. Not that I know. So I'm not like letting something out, you know, anyway. And then Rebecca Jones. So Hunter and Rebecca. So December 8th and 9th. How old is Rebecca? You guys had time to do the math. What's that? Three. Okay. So eight and three. I think that's it for this week. Anybody else have a birthday that we missed? So we'll sing Happy Birthday. We'll get Quinn, we'll get her next time. But we'll get brother Justin Alasko, Hunter and Rebecca Jones. And then anniversaries. We don't have any yet or as far as they're coming up here soon. So and then so next week we'll get the Murphy's there. And then the pregnancy list. Be in prayer for those on the list. Alyssa, Anastasia and Tabby. And then be in prayer for all the ladies that just had little ones. So I think that's about all I have for announcements that I can think of. Again, anybody needs to get baptized. We have the baptism ready to go. We're going to have it ready to go next week as well. And obviously, too, when we go out soul winning, you can just basically say, hey, we're ready to go. You want to go get baptized if someone gets saved? Brother Dave's going to really be pushing for it. He's like, I got this thing ready. I think that's it for announcements for right now. Brother Dave's going to sing one more song. Before that he's going to do the Happy Birthdays. And then I think Brother David, are you reading this morning? Brother Dave is going to be reading Matthew chapter 2 for us this morning after all that. All right. Take your song books and turn to song 420. Song 420 in your song books. We'll sing There's a Song in the Air. But before we do that, we need to sing Happy Birthday. We sing Happy Birthday to brother Justin Hunter and Rebecca. All right. You all want to stand up? Yeah. Justin, be a good example to the kids now. All right. Thirty four, eight and three. Well, happy birthday to y'all. Wish you a happy birthday. No, I was going to say, hey, David, he loves to stand up. It's like Jacob. Jacob, you want to stand up, too? We get David and Jacob to stand up. And you know what? You're you're graduating next Saturday. So are you gonna be here next Sunday? Stand up. We got to sing happy birthday to you. You're not going to be here, brother. When's your birthday? No, man. It's it's it's it's December. It's in December. You're not going to be here. All right. We'll sing happy birthday to him in our hearts. And all right. Here we go. Ready? Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. God bless you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you all. And we will sing song four hundred and twenty. There's a song in the air. There's a star in the sky. There's a mother's deep prayer and a baby's long cry. And the star reigns its fire while the beautiful sing. For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king. There's a tumult of joy for the wonderful birth. For the virgin sweet boy is the lord of the earth. And the star reigns its fire while the beautiful sing. For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king. In the light of that star lie the ages imperiled. And that song from afar has swept over the world. Every hearth is a flame and the beautiful sing. In the homes of the nations that Jesus is king. We rejoice in the light and we echo the song. That comes down through the night from the heavenly throng. I will shout to the lovely evangel they bring. And we greet in his cradle our savior and king. All right, take your Bibles and turn to the book of Matthew. Matthew chapter number two. Matthew chapter number two in your Bibles. And we'll have brother David come and read that for us. Matthew chapter two, if you found your place, amen. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east of Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For he hath seen a star in the east, and art come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the peoples together, he demanded of them where Christ be born. And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written of the prophet. And thou, Bethlehem, in the land of Judea, are not the least among the princes of Judea, for out of thee shall come a governor, that shall rule my people Israel. They had Herod when he had trivially called their eyes, and cried of them diligently what time the star appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child. And when he had found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also. When they had heard the king, they departed, and lo, the star, which they saw in the east, would prefer them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they were coming to the house, they saw the young child would marry his mother, and fell down and worshiped him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold, and frankincense and myrrh. And being warned of God in a dream, that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appearth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod, that might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt, have I called my son. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wrath, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, In Ramah was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping, and a great morning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appearth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for they are dead without the young child's life. And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. And when he heard that Achileus did reign in Judea, in the womb of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither, not in the standing, being warned of God in the dream, he turned his side into the pots of Galilee. And he came and dwelt in a city, called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet, he shall be called Nazarene. Let's pray. Dear Lord, I thank you for this opportunity to come back to your house, pray that you fill the past with your spirit, and help us all be edified. In Jesus' name, amen. So you're there. In Matthew chapter 2, now you would maybe think that this is a Christmas sermon, but it's not. So, I'm actually going to be preaching on a subject dealing with Old Testament references in the New Testament. And so this is a question that many have brought up to me, and they're valid questions, as far as dealing with references in the New Testament that don't seem to maybe match up perfectly with what's said in the Old Testament. Or maybe you have trouble, maybe you can't find the reference in the Old Testament. And so, this is really going to be a sermon to kind of give you tools, if you will, on understanding references in the New Testament and all that. The first thing that you need to realize is that the Bible is perfect and there is no error. So, Brother Matt preached a great sermon about being King James only, or basically trusting in the King James Bible. And the idea that, obviously we take that by faith, but in the end, we believe the King James Bible is perfect without error. And we believe the Bible in general is perfect without error, and that you can have it in any language. But the key there is that there's going to be people that are going to try to say, hey, here's a mistake, here's a contradiction, here's whatever, right? And this is an area where people will try to point to and say, well, see, the King James doesn't do it right here, or they should use this here, or they didn't, you know, these are different quotations, or whatever. Now, and when it comes to this, when it comes to quotations of Old Testament passages in the New Testament, there's not necessarily just a one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to these references. Actually, there's going to be different scenarios, if you will, when you're dealing with that. And the reason I picked Matthew chapter 2 is because there's actually, in this passage, there's three different quotations. In chapter 1, there's a quote from the Old Testament as well. But there's different things in here in chapter 2 that really hit on different scenarios, if you will, as far as what you're dealing with when you're dealing with quotes. So, I'm just going to go through some different ones, and this isn't necessarily all-inclusive, meaning there may be some that, there may be a different scenario that I'm not hitting here. But this should help you out when you're going through the New Testament. If anything, I've gone through the first two chapters of the New Testament, if you will, on quotations. And I'm obviously going to go to other ones as well. But the thing you need to start off with first is that the Bible's right, it doesn't need fixed, it shouldn't have been translated better. Or, in some cases, they'll literally say, well, the text, not the English, but the underlying text is wrong. And so that's the arguments people will make with this type of stuff. But listen, the King James Bible is right in every case, the underlying text of the King James Bible is right in every case, and go into it with that mentality. And listen, as Brother Matt was preaching, ultimately you can go down through the evidence of why the King James Bible is perfect, why we believe it's the Word of God, but ultimately, no man spake like this man. The Word of God validates itself. The Old Testament in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek validates itself. How do I know that the Hebrew in the Old Testament is right and the Greek in the New Testament is right? Because it validates itself. And why do I know the King James Bible is the Word of God compared to all these other versions? Because it validates itself. The Word of God is quick and powerful and sharp in any two-edged sword. The King James Bible is quick and powerful. The NIVESV and all these other versions are just weak. And you can get into all the other answers as far as why they're bad, but ultimately, the Bible validates itself. Now, let's look at verse 23, the last verse there in chapter 2. And the first thing that you need to realize is that sometimes there's things that are quoted in the New Testament about what prophets said but weren't written. So, every word is important. What you want to see here is that in verse 23, it says, And he came and dwelt in the city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets. Does it say written by the prophets? Because it says spoken by the prophets, plural, he shall be called a Nazarene. Because people will look back and be like, I just can't find anywhere in the Old Testament where it says, you know, he shall be called Nazarene. And that's right. There's nowhere in the Old Testament where it states that. The closest you'll get to is talking about the Nazarite vow, which is different. Nazareth is a place, the Nazarite vow is a vow, right? So, this is where people think, well, Jesus had long hair because he was a Nazarite. So, actually Jesus drank, you know, it says that he came eating and drinking, whereas John the Baptist didn't come eating and drinking. If anybody had the Nazarite vow, it was John the Baptist, not Jesus. But Nazareth is a place, and it's saying that he shall be called a Nazarene, and it was spoken by the prophets. Now, I don't know how many prophets spoke that, but it wasn't written until Matthew 2. Now, look at Matthew 27, another case here, where you'll see that spoken. Now, sometimes it'll say it was spoken by them, and it was also written, right? So, just because it says spoken doesn't mean it's not in the Old Testament. But here's the thing, it doesn't say, as it is written by, you know, such and such prophet, you know, he shall be called Nazarene, then you'd have, then you'd be like, what in the world, you know? So, the first case here when it comes to quotations is that, was it written or was it spoken? Matthew 27 and verse 9 here, it says, Then was fulfilled that which was, what? spoken by Jeremy the prophet. Now, that's Jeremiah, saying, and they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value, and gave them for the potter's field as the Lord appointed me. Now, if you look at Jeremiah, obviously Jeremiah has a lot of prophecies, I mean, it's the, where it literally states, I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. But, it doesn't say anything about thirty pieces of silver, in Jeremiah or Lamentations. But, Jeremiah did speak it. You know how I know that? Because, the Bible says he did. But, it was written by Zechariah. So, go to Zechariah chapter 11. Zechariah chapter 11. Now, he's not, which goes into the effect here is that sometimes there's things that are written by a certain prophet, but it's spoken by many prophets. It may not be in the other books, but it was spoken by them. So, Zechariah does have this, but it's not like, well, is Zechariah Jeremiah? You know, was that like another name for him? No. It's just the fact that Jeremiah spoke this. Zechariah, I believe, spoke it too, but he also wrote it down. Okay, so Zechariah 11, 12 says, And I said unto them, If you think good, give me my price, and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter a goodly price that I was prized at of them, and I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord. So, you can see, obviously, that is talking about that event, right, in Zechariah. But, it doesn't negate the fact that Jeremiah the prophet spoke it. Okay, and go to, and here's the thing. Things that were spoken by prophets can be delayed by a lot of time as far as when it's written. How about Jude? Go to Jude. Jude, chapter 1, verse 14. If you have chapter 2, tear that one out. But in verse 14 here, So, what we see here is that there are certain things that were prophesied or spoken by prophets, but maybe weren't written down until later, as far as being the inspired scripture when it comes to that. Does that mean that Jeremiah the prophet, when he spoke that, wasn't, obviously it's God's word when he's speaking it, but it wasn't written down. It wasn't, you know, preserved, written down as far as what was said, okay? Until Matthew, chapter 27, right? So, I mean, it's kind of like, yes, it was God's word, but it wasn't penned down until later. Same thing with what Enoch prophesied. Enoch, it says in verse 14, it says, Now, you know what people do with this type of stuff, though? They'll say, well, you know, Enoch prophesied of this, so therefore the book of Enoch is legit. No, the book of Enoch is trash. The book of Enoch states that there were giants that were 450 feet tall. To give you an idea, that's a 45-story building. You want to get an idea of what that height would be. That's insanity, okay? Even in, like, Hollywood movies, they're not that big, right? When they show, like, giants, they're not 450 feet tall, okay? Not to mention the book of Enoch is just garbage all around when it comes to that. But you know what it is? Is that Enoch prophesied of this before the flood, and obviously Enoch is the one that walked with God, and he was translated that he should not see death, and he had faith, obviously, and it says without faith it is impossible to please him. And so, but he prophesied of this in his day, but it wasn't written until Jude. Talk about a gap between when it was spoken and when it was written. But that doesn't mean that prophets weren't saying, hey, Enoch prophesied of this. Enoch said this. Enoch prophesied of this throughout time when it came to the law and the prophets, right? Because God, who at sundry times in a diverse manner spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son. So we're no longer dealing with this time where the prophets are hearing the word of God and telling us what it said. And think about it too, back then, I mean they didn't have a printing press back in the New Testament day. You had to scribe it down. I'm not saying they didn't have stuff written down. I'm not saying that someone didn't write down what Enoch said, or someone didn't write down what, you know what I mean? Like obviously someone could, a prophet could speak to you and you'd be like, I'm going to write that down, you know? I'm not saying that never happened. I'm just saying that it wasn't preserved in God's word in written form until Jude when it came to Enoch. And it wasn't preserved in written form as far as Jeremiah speaking about the thirty pieces of silver until Matthew 27. So no reason to get hung up on that. The idea there is that, hey, was it spoken or written? So you could automatically, someone's saying, well it's not in the Old Testament. It's like, does it say it is? Does it say it's written in the Old Testament? This is another reason too why when you look at the Old Testament, you're reading the Old Testament stories, there's this, I believe, a bad way of thinking about what they knew as only what was written. That make sense? So like people are like, well, you know, they didn't know about this. Did they know? They didn't know? How do you know? And so, for example, you say, well, they didn't know that Jesus was going to be a Nazarene. Well, it was spoken by the prophets. Someone knew it. Someone heard about that. I mean, unless they were just talking to, those prophets were just talking to themselves about it. But either way, those prophets knew about it. And same thing with the thirty pieces of silver. Jeremiah was telling people about it. Zechariah obviously was telling people about it. And Zechariah is all the way at the end. If you think about it, Zechariah is all the way toward the end of the Old Testament as far as you're getting into Malachi. You're dealing with after the seventy year captivity of Babylon, they're coming out and Zechariah is there. And then obviously you have coming into the New Testament. Now, the thing is that it's a bad, it's bad logic. It's not a good way to view what those of the Old Testament knew by what's written only. Let me give you another example. Besides the ones we just saw, go to John chapter 3. John chapter 3, dealing with Nicodemus. This is a famous passage dealing with being born again. And you know, some might say, hey, that's only New Testament being born again. And you would be wrong. First of all, John 3 is in the Old Testament. Because the New Testament doesn't start until Jesus dies on the cross. So, technically speaking, when he says you must be born again, he's talking in the Old Testament. While the Old Testament is still in force. But notice what Nicodemus, obviously this is a story where he's saying you must be born again. And Nicodemus is like, can I go into my mother's womb a second time and be born? You know, it's like, you missed it. You missed the whole point, right? You know, it's being born physically and being born spiritually, right? But notice what it says here in verse 7. Jesus is saying, marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, how can these things be? Now, let's see what Jesus' answer to that. When he's just like, how can this be? You know, like basically, like have no idea about this, right? Jesus answered and said unto him, art thou master of Israel and knowest not these things? You know what Jesus is saying? You ought to know it. Why don't you know this? You say, well, how did they know about being born again? I don't know, because they were sons of God back in Job's day. Being born of God and being a child of God is not just New Testament. It's actually from the very beginning. That when you get saved, you're born into God's family. Now, the New Testament obviously sheds a lot more light on that, right? But it's just like the Trinity. You think the Trinity just popped into existence in the New Testament? Except for the fact that in Genesis chapter 1 it says, let us make man in our image. Oh, there's the Trinity right there in Genesis chapter 1. Obviously, the New Testament sheds a lot more light on it to where we see Father, Son, Holy Spirit, you know, and just really defines that hierarchy and really helps you understand it, right? But in the end, it was always there. And it doesn't mean that no, hey, listen, did the Jews know that Jesus was the son? When Jesus said that he was the son of God, they wanted to kill him. Why? Because thou being a man makest thyself God. You know, it's funny because today when you say that Jesus is the son of God, everybody's just like, well, yeah, but he's not God. It's like the Jews back then knew that that meant he was God. And these are the people that literally thought that Jesus was talking about eating his own flesh like off his bone in John chapter 6, okay? Or that he's actually a literal loaf of bread when he's talking allegorically, right? When he's talking figuratively. And so these guys that are just literally as blind as a bat understood that Jesus was the son, that that meant he was God because kiss the son lest he be angry and now perish in the way when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Who? The son. And you say, well, they didn't know about that or they didn't know about the resurrection. You know, the Sadducees, you know, you can understand they didn't know about the resurrection. Job knew about the resurrection. Go to Job chapter 19, Job chapter 19. And the point I'm trying to make here is that because there's, I mean, there's evidence in the New Testament that there were things that were spoken by the prophets that weren't written down in the Old Testament that shows you there's a lot of information that they knew that we don't know what they knew. You know, we know some stuff that they knew based off of the quotations that, hey, it was spoken by them, it was spoken by them about this but it wasn't written down. But your guess is as good as mine as far as how much of what's in the New Testament was spoken but not written down. Now, no doubt, I do believe that it was, it definitely was made way more manifest in the New Testament. Right? So I'm not here to say, like, hey, you know, they knew every little thing that the New Testament states. No, I'm not saying that. I think it's very clear that in the ages to come, like, the revelation, the revealing of everything is way more abundant than the New Testament. Okay? But it's still foolish to say, well, whatever's in the Old Testament, it's all they knew. Now, in Job chapter 19 and verse 29 here, he's actually going to talk about the resurrection, that he knows he's going to be bodily resurrected, not just going to heaven but bodily resurrected. Notice what it says here in verse 25. For I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and though after my skin worms destroy this body. So what is he talking about? Literally, like, his body's in the grave and completely consumed by worms, right? Yet in my flesh shall I see God. Now, how's that, listen, the worms have already consumed it, right? How is that, how's he going to stand, how's he in his flesh going to see God standing in the latter day, right? Because the resurrection. It says, whom I shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold and not another. He's like, it's going to be my eyes, me personally, my body, right? It says, though my rains be consumed within me. Now, rains are talking about, like, I think your kidneys, right? So, like, when you talk about your bowels, your rains, your heart, you know, like, you're talking about your physical inward parts, right? He's basically saying, my skin has been consumed, my rains have been completely consumed, but I'm going to stand there in my flesh and see him. Why? Because it's the resurrection. So, that's kind of a little commercial break as far as, like, why is this sermon important, you know? Well, one, don't lose faith in the King James Bible. Don't lose faith in the Bible because there's quotations that don't seem to match up or maybe you can't find. No, listen, the Bible's right and there's just different scenarios when it comes to that. Because I remember someone saying, well, you know, it says, you know, what the 30 pieces of silver, how is that right? You know, that seems like it's wrong, like the Bible's wrong, it's quoting a different prophet, you know, and they'll try to make that type of argument and every word matters when it comes to that. Now, go to Matthew chapter 1, let's look at the quotation here as far as Old Testament, New Testament, or New Testament, Old Testament. And one thing that you'll notice, too, is that there may be different spellings, okay? When it comes to names or word differences, stuff like that, when it comes to the quotations. So, let's just get into that. Most quotations that are coming in there, there may be different word choices. Think about, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that preceded that mouth of God. Well, when you look it up, man shall not live by bread only. You're like, well, it's not alone, it's only, right? It's the same meaning, okay? And when it comes to the quotations in a lot of cases, the meaning's the same, but it's not word for word the quotation, which also gets into the argument of translation, okay? Which is another argument, okay? Which is something different than this, but the idea here is that when we're translating to another language, what's important is the meaning, not that it's like word for word what that language, like, how it words it, okay? Because a lot of times when you do a translation of word for word, it's not going to make sense. So, in order to go into another language, you have to word it in a way that makes sense in that language, okay? So, and you say, well, why a lot of times are the quotations from the Old Testament and New Testament worded a little different? Well, one, it's two different languages. You have, like, Hebrew and Aramaic in the Old Testament, and you have Greek in the New Testament. So, in a lot of cases, what it probably is is that, obviously, those that are writing it down in Greek are under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, right? Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, okay? So, those that pen down the New Testament in Greek, right, that we know is right, but why is it worded a little different? Well, it's two different languages. So, that language, in order to get that same meaning in the other language, may be worded a little different to get the same meaning across. And then when it's translated from both those different texts, that translation, in order to get the same meaning of the passage, is going to be worded a little different, okay? But they both mean the same thing. The one from Hebrew to Greek means the same thing. The one from Hebrew to English means the same thing. The one from Greek to English means the same thing. And so, this is important to know so that you don't get caught up on this. And the big thing is that the reason I'm preaching this sermon, in a lot of cases, is just like, hey, have faith in the Bible. It's right. It's not wrong. It's not mistaken here. It shouldn't have been translated a different way here. It's right. And here's the why. Okay, this is more of a sermon of why. Why is this right? Why does this work? You're like, it sounds familiar to your sermon last week, you know? The why. But really, when it comes to preaching, in a lot of cases and teaching, isn't that my job? Is to show you the why. You know, to give you the sense. You can read it yourself and find the problem, you know? You're like, there's a problem here. What's the solution? What's the reason? You know, all that. Now anyway, in Matthew chapter 1, verse 22, it says, Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying. Now, on the surface, first of all, this passage could have been spoken by another prophet, because it doesn't say Isaiah. It doesn't say, as written by Isaiah. Though this is found in Isaiah. So in some of these cases, you could even say, hey, you know, maybe it's not even worded exactly, because there's a different prophet that spoke this. But, either way, let's say it is talking about Isaiah, and the quotation there. Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted as God with us. In Isaiah 7 14, it says, Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign, behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Now, two things you'll see there. One, it says, shall be with child, the other one shall be conceived. And, my belief on this is that this is quoting Isaiah, and conceiving is the same as being with child. Because, life begins at conception. Because the moment you conceive, there's a different blood type there. And the life of the flesh is in the blood. Therefore, you have life, it is a child, at conception. Okay? But, also you'll see that Immanuel, one is spelled with an E, and one is spelled with an I. And I believe personally, that's just language difference. Like, it's coming from Hebrew over here, and it's coming from Greek over here. This is why in the New Testament, you'll see Jeremy, you'll see Esaias instead of Isaiah, Elias instead of Elijah, Alyssias instead of Elisha, right? You'll see those different, I mean, Jesus is the same name as Joshua. And there's two places in the New Testament where it's talking about Joshua the son of Nun, and he's called Jesus. Because that is the Greek way of stating Joshua, right? The name Joshua. And therefore, when it's transliterated into English, you get Jesus. Not Yeshua, you know, it's Jesus. So, you'll see that where you'll have this, you know, like spelling differences as far as like the names go and everything else. Don't get caught up on that type of stuff. I mean, those are type of details. One, I believe the King James Bible is holding true to the original underlying text as much as possible, and that's why you see those little variants, right? Because that's, the literal transliteration is an I, or an E instead of an I, right? Same name though, right? It's spelled a little different, you know, but it's the same name. Go to Matthew chapter 2 and verse 17. Matthew chapter 2 and verse 17. I'll show you another case where we see that little bit of difference in the name. And some would argue, well, I think that in the New Testament, everywhere where it says Jeremy, or it says Isaiah, Isaiah, you know, just put the prophet that's named in the Old Testament. I personally don't think that would be wrong, okay? If you said Noah instead of Noe, if you said, you know what I mean, if you used it because it's the same person, it's the same name, but I'll tell you this, I'm not touching this. This has been proved for over 400 years. I'm not touching it. So, you know what? In the New Testament, it's Elias. In the New Testament, it's Isaiah, right? And I personally think, I like that because you know what? When you're saying it, you're saying it closer to the way they said it in Jesus' day, right? Because you're basically, I mean, they spoke Greek back then. I'm not saying they didn't also speak Hebrew, but there was definitely a big difference to when Paul's like, hey, he spoke in the Hebrew tongue. You know what that means? That he wasn't normally speaking in the Hebrew tongue. Because the Greek was the lingua franca at that time. It was like English is today, where most people speak English. That's the universal type language. And, you know, another sermon for another day there. But anyway, in Matthew chapter 2, verse 17, it says, Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, In Ramah was there a voice heard, lamentation, weeping, in great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted because they are not. Now, when you look this up in Jeremiah 31, it's very similar. Like, for example, Ramah doesn't have an, it has an H on it in Jeremiah at the end of it. You know, ooh, big difference. But, it says, Thus saith the Lord, a voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children because they were not. So, Rachel, Rachel. Now, what you have here is basically that the CH sound that we have in English is a hard H in most languages. Even, like, in Greek, when you say Christ, where we get the term Christ, it's Christos. Like, it's like a hard H, but you can see how it almost sounds like Christ, right? Christos. It's like, you know, Jeremy's just like, chh. You know, it's like that kind of, you're getting in the back of your throat type of thing. Whereas, in English, we just put it as kind of like a K sound. We're not like, Christ. You know, like, we're just, you know, we just say Christ, okay? So, when it comes to Rachel, you can see how there's a hard H there. That, in the New Testament, that hard H got put as CH. In Matthew chapter 1, when you're dealing with Boaz, who Boaz was born, you know, like, his parents and everything, Rahab, Rahab. Rahab the harlot. So, Rahab, Rahab, same person, same name, right? But, you just have that hard H that's there. And, it's kind of like going back and forth which one it goes with, right? So, there's no mistake here. It's just that, it's just holding true to the original when it's transliterating names, okay? If you put Rachel there, in Matthew, I'm sorry, in Jeremiah chapter 31, I don't think it'd be wrong. If you put Rahal in Matthew chapter 2, I don't think it would be wrong. But, again, I'm not touching it, right? Like, I'm not going to be over here and be like, hey, let's change all these names here to what it, how it renders it, how they rendered it in the Old Testament, right? And so, no mistake there, no problem there. Go to Matthew chapter 2, Matthew chapter 2 and verse 5. Matthew chapter 2 and verse 5. Now, in this case, there's a quotation made here, but who made it, okay? I'm not saying the quotation is wrong or doesn't have the same meaning. But, I want you to notice some different things. Is it spoken by the prophet or is it written by the prophet? Is it the narrator speaking or is it somebody that the narrator is saying said something? So, this is what a story where Herod is calling all the, like, the priests and, you know, all the men to basically say what's going on, right? Because the wise men are coming out of the east. It says in verse 5 here, and they said unto him, so who's speaking here? Is it the narrator or is it these men that Herod has called to him, right? And they said unto him, in Bethlehem of Judea. So, they're basically saying where is the king, where is he going to be born, right? For thus it is written by the prophet. And now Bethlehem in the land of Judah are not the least among the princes of Judah, for out of thee shall come a governor that shall rule my people Israel. Now, you could make the case that, well, they said in Bethlehem of Judea, and then the narrator is taking over, right? But to me, it seems, I've always read this that they're saying it, okay? There's a colon there, it's like the same thought, like, they're the one speaking. There's not like a break between like, okay, they said this and there's like this dissertation over here, the narrator saying, man, this is what was written, you know what I mean? I believe they're saying in Bethlehem of Judea, and this is the reason why, and they quote off, you know, the scripture. Now, I believe it has the same meaning, but you'll see some differences as far as what's said. Meaning that it's more kind of like, it almost seems more like a paraphrase of it, if you will, than a direct quote. But it says in Micah chapter 5 and verse 2, go to Micah chapter 5 and verse 2. I also think that it's interesting that they leave off the last portion of this verse, okay? So think about that, if they're the ones saying it, and obviously these are the Jews, he came up to his own, his own receipt, if not, a lot of times they didn't understand what was going on, they didn't understand the scriptures. It says in Micah 5, too, But thou, Bethlehem Ephrata, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been from above, from everlasting. Notice that that portion wasn't mentioned, right? Kind of an important detail, you know, in the fact that he's from everlasting, because it's the Lord. It's God, right, that's coming down. But, if you were to look at what they said, and what's written here, I believe the same meaning is there, but you definitely see a little bit of a difference, right? Where it's saying like a governor shall rule, right? Ultimately, I mean, if you're going to rule, you're a governor, right? You're some type of leader. So, I don't think there's, even if you were to say this is the narrator speaking, I believe you still have the same meaning. But, I personally believe that you're actually dealing with these guys stating what they said. And so, therefore, I don't believe you have to be that critical of it, as far as like, is it getting the same meaning, is it, you know, whatever. So, again, when you're looking at these passages, you got to look at those type of details, because if the devil quotes scripture, and it's like, well, that's off, what's the devil? I mean, when he says, you know, isn't it written, you know, the angels shall, you know, give the, you know, like, he shall give his angels charge, and they're like, he quotes scripture, right? You're like, well, he didn't quote it exactly right. I wouldn't expect him to, right? I mean, he's a liar. So, I'd actually expect there to be a little bit of a deviation as far as what's said, okay? So, you have to see who's talking. If the narrator's speaking, you know it's right, okay? If Jesus is speaking, you know it's right. If it says that, you know, Peter being filled with the Holy Ghost, and then he said this, you know it's right. Does that make sense? But sometimes there's people, even good characters, that say something, but that may not be right. Like, you're in the Book of Acts, and, like, you have James, the brother, you know, James is saying something, or Peter's saying something, or, you know, or Paul's saying something, or doing something. It doesn't necessarily mean it's right. So, in this case, you can make the case that, hey, you know, it's just these guys that Herod brought up that are quoting off a passage in the Bible. Maybe they didn't get it exactly right. I still think it has the same meaning, okay? But, more so it looks like, hey, they're kind of paraphrasing what the passage says. Still getting the same meaning across, all that. But, go to Mark chapter 1, Mark chapter 1. Now, in some cases, what you'll have in a quotation, now, in this case, it's very explicit what's going on, but you'll have a quotation that is more than one passage being put together, okay? Because you'll go there and be like, well, it only says this. It doesn't say this portion over here. Well, what happens sometimes is that it'll basically give this whole dissertation, but it's like, this comes from this passage, this comes from another passage, this comes from another passage, right? And they're all separate quotes coming from that, but it's basically put into one big thought or sentence. In this case, in Mark chapter 1 and verse 2, it literally states this is coming from two different prophets, okay? Or at least two, okay? Because notice what it says in Mark chapter 1 and verse 2. As it is written in the prophets, behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his path straight. So those two statements, one in verse 2 and one in verse 3, come from two different places. The first one comes from Malachi, where in Malachi 3, 1, it says, behold, I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before me. Then it goes on to talk about Jesus coming and the Lord coming to his place, right? So that's the first portion, that's coming from Malachi, right? But then Isaiah 40 and verse 3, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Now this is where the new versions screw this up. You know what they say? As said Isaiah the prophet. And then it will just give this whole quotation. Or as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, right? Is that what it says though? No, it says, as it is written in the prophets, plural. Because there's two different prophets being mentioned. So there you have the new versions getting it wrong again. Now, I'm not saying that Isaiah didn't say that, but it's not written in Isaiah. You know, like, behold, I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before me. It's very well, it could be true that Isaiah said it, it could be very well true that Moses said it. Right? But the thing is that it's not written in Isaiah. It's written in Malachi. So, in a lot of cases when you're looking at quotations, you'll see basically, basically there will be this whole dissertation and there will be multiple quotations mentioned there. I mean Hebrews, for the sake of time I'm not going through Hebrews. But Hebrews is just like Psalm, Psalm, Psalm, Psalm, Psalm. You know, like every verse is a different Psalm and different reference. Isaiah, Psalm, Psalm, Isaiah, Isaiah, Psalm, Psalm. You know, like basically is the way it goes. But the most quoted books in the New Testament is Psalms and Isaiah. And then you'll have like Jeremiah in there and you'll have places like Malachi and stuff like that in there as well. But really, I remember writing down all the different, like I was trying to write down all the references as far as like to see who wins, you know. And Isaiah and Psalms are just like, I keep, I'm like who's going to win this battle, you know. You could look it up, but again, that's how much you trust. I mean, when it comes to quotations, there's some things that it doesn't say as spoken by this or written, it just states it. And you're like, yep, that's in Genesis or that's in this, you know. But it's not necessarily like, you know, as it is written in this place states this, okay. So, you'll see that happen a lot, okay. So, what do we notice so far, okay. So, one, there's things that are spoken that may not be written. It's fine. No problem, right. There's also maybe differences in maybe spelling or word choices and stuff like that, but it's the same meaning. And you know what, names can change depending on the language, right. I mean, think about my name in different languages is going to sound different, isn't it? And if you transliterated it from that language, it's going to look different even in English if you did that, right. So, no problem there, it's just dealing with different languages, okay. And God's not bound to any language and Dave Pentecost, God's word was spoken in every language. So, it's fine, you know. It goes into another language after English. Hey, listen, the names may sound a little different, okay. But, so we saw that basically, and to also know that there's a lot of things that were spoken that maybe, you know, we don't know what they knew back then because it's not written down in the Old Testament, okay. So, and then, you know, who's talking? Is the narrator speaking or is someone else quoting it? Is the devil quoting it? Do you really need to hold the devil to the fire on that one? Like, the devil got it wrong. It's like, makes sense actually, I'd be a lot more impressed if he got it right. But, so that's something you need to look at. And, you know what, verses go together as far as, you know, when it's quoted, it'll be put together. We see that just explicitly in Mark Chapter 1, but it happens all the time. Okay, so, how about this though? And, this kind of gets into that same concept. Go to Matthew Chapter 21 and verse 16. Matthew 21 and verse 16. As we go down this list, I'm kind of getting into the weeds a little more. I'm getting into where it gets a little more complicated. Because at this point, it's pretty simple, right. I mean, was it spoken or written? Who said that it was spoken or written, right? I mean, think about it, Matthew Chapter 5, it says, Jesus said, you have heard that it had been said in time past, thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy. That's not in the Bible. But, someone said it, right. I mean, Jesus isn't saying, as it is written, hate your neighbor. So, you have to look at what's being said, and how it's being said, and what it's being attributed to. So, you know, was it spoken, was it written, who's saying it, who's the one that's speaking about it, is it the narrator, is it Jesus, is it just some random person, is it the devil, right? But then also you see just like two straight up quotes being put together, but it's literally telling you two different prophets said it, okay. One prophet said the one, one prophet said the other. In this case, notice what it says here, because you're in Matthew 21 and verse 16, like I said, there's passages where it will use different words, but it says the same meaning. But there's some cases where that's not the case, okay. You don't just equate meaning. And here's one I believe would be the case as well. I don't believe you should equate meaning to what's being said. Now, in verse 16, And said unto him, Here's thou what these say, and Jesus saith unto them, Yea, have ye never read, out of the mouth of babes and sucklings, thou hast perfected praise. Okay, so, have you not read, so he's obviously talking about something that's written, go to Psalm 8 and verse 2. Psalm 8 and verse 2. Psalm 8 and verse 2. Listen, I don't mind ripping face, but I love these type of sermons. Like this is like what I love doing, just so you know. Because, reading the Bible, studying the Bible, is a lot of fun. It's like a puzzle. Think of the Bible as a big, complex puzzle that you're trying to figure out. And I just really enjoy that. And so, when it comes to these things, when I did all the sermons on the contradictions, or so-called contradictions in the Bible, I love that stuff. I mean, if you ever find a so-called contradiction again, let me know. I went through 101 of them. And so far, Bible is 101, they're 0. You know, but it will go on forever that way. But the idea is that I enjoy going through that type of stuff. But, in Psalm 8 and verse 2, and listen, all these passages that I'm showing you, I dealt with, meaning like I was reading through like, how does this make sense? And, I'll say this, if I dealt with it, chances are, you deal with it. And if maybe certain people have brought up these questions to me at church, then there's probably other people that have those same questions. So, hopefully this pertains to somebody as far as, you know, this would be a blessing to you, or like, hey, that's a good way of looking at that, or that's how I'm going to try to look at these passages. Psalm 8 and verse 2. So, what does it say in Matthew 21 and 16? Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise. Psalm 8 and verse 2. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. Now, some would argue like, well, maybe perfecting praise and ordaining strength is the same thing. Like it's talking about the same thing. I don't personally believe that. What I believe is going on here is that Jesus is melding two different passages. And, go to Psalm 78, Psalm 78, Psalm 78. Now, what people will do though, I'm not sure if they do it with this one, there's another passage that I'm going to show you right after this, that they do is they'll say, well, see in the Septuagint, which is the Greek, like Old Testament, that is around like the 2nd to 3rd century AD, by the way. They'll say, and I'm not saying it didn't exist before that, but what they have that you're looking at is after Christ. I mean, after the New Testament was written, meaning what they're holding onto. They'll say, well, the Septuagint renders it like the New Testament. Maybe the Septuagint, when they wrote it after the New Testament, purposely matched it. Maybe that happened. And this is what happens in a lot, specifically the New King James Bible and a lot of the new versions, where they'll deviate from the Hebrew text what it says and they'll put in the Greek Septuagint and say, this is right because the New Testament says this over here. That's wrong. So, listen, the Hebrew doesn't need fix, the Hebrew is right, and the Greek New Testament is right. It's just the fact that, you know what Jesus does in a lot of cases, is he's basically bringing passages together to tell you that these are talking about the same thing. And that's what you'll see in a lot of cases, where it's like, hey, let's bring these together. They mean the same thing. Last week I preached on this and the idea of, where it's quoting Isaiah 59, but then it says, this is my covenant with them when I shall take away their sins. That's coming from Jeremiah 31. But yet it's quoted in the same manner, because it's the same thing. We're both talking about the new covenant. Now, Isaiah, I'm sorry, Psalm 78 here. So we see in 1 it says, out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected the praise, out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength. Well, look what it says here in Psalm 78. I will open my mouth in a parable and will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us. So this is obviously a reference to Jesus speaking parables and dark sayings and when He came to the earth and all that. But notice what it says. We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and His strength and His wonderful works that He had done. So think about this. Who are we talking about here in Psalm 78? The children, the next generation, the babes and sucklings. Now listen, when He says babes and sucklings, is He talking about, I mean, who is speaking there, right? It's adult people that are yelling out, right? Hosanna to the Son of God, right? Glory to God in the highest, right? The idea there is that He's not literally talking about, like, babies at that time. But remember Jesus said that He's praising God the Father saying that I'm glad that you revealed it on the babes and not unto the wise and prudent, right? So here, I believe what you're getting is you're getting these two together where, yes, you're ordaining strength, but you're also perfecting praise. And praise is perfected or completed, right? And it says to what? The children. And the children are going to understand. It's like the adults aren't going to understand, but the children are going to understand. That next generation is going to understand. And they're going to praise the Lord and His strength. And so you have these two things working together. And what Jesus is doing is I believe He's putting those two together. Which we'll get into another concept when it comes to quotations and the fact that sometimes you're not dealing with an exact quote, but the spirit of law is being expressed. And that's kind of going to be my last point, okay? But go to Hebrews chapter 8. This is another case. Hebrews chapter 8. And this is one they specifically do with the Septuagint. This is one that James White brings up to try to discredit the King James Bible. And listen, this isn't a King James issue. This is a textual issue. This isn't translation. This is like literally they're saying the Greek or that the Hebrew should say something different. Okay? In the Old Testament. So they're criticizing the Hebrew in the Old Testament and saying that's wrong. So Hebrews 8 and verse 8. I hope this isn't too deep when it comes to this. Because a lot of the quotations are pretty simple. It's just a matter of understanding those key concepts at the beginning. Sometimes you'll see a place where it says something different, but that's because it's putting two passages together. I believe that's the same thing that's happening here in Hebrews chapter 8. But I want you to notice too, does it say who said this and does it say it's written? Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 8. For finding fault with them he said, behold the days come. It doesn't even say as the prophet said. So I want you to think about that. There is a quotation in Jeremiah 31 that's stated. But I want you to think about the premise here. They're saying this should be rendered and Jeremiah 31 is this. What it states here. Does it say that Jeremiah said this? Does it say it's written Jeremiah? Does it say a prophet said this? Actually it just says the Lord said this. For all we know, he's writing down what the Lord said to some prophets. And it's not even what the prophet repeated. Does that make sense? That all matters with the whole argument. Because I've already just debunked their whole scheme just right there. I don't even have to show you that this is, I believe, putting two passages together. I can just tell you right now, it doesn't say it's written in Jeremiah. Therefore it could be spoken by some other prophet and therefore it could say something completely different or something that has more information or different information and it's still valid. But, let's say for sake of argument, this is a quotation of Jeremiah. This is something that's, or this is something that's written in the Old Testament. Because a lot of this is straight up, like you look at Jeremiah 31, this is what it says. But again, it doesn't have to be from there. So in chapter 8 verse 8 it says, For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. At that point, if you're reading that in Jeremiah 31, you'd be like, yes, I mean, right on. You know, saying pretty much exactly the same thing, right? Except for this point right here. It says, Because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. Now, listen, did the Lord say that? Yes, He did. But where did He say that? And one, is it written anywhere that He said that? Or is it just now being written that He said that? Right, there's all those questions that can be brought up. Go to Jeremiah 31 verse 32, let me show you what it says in Jeremiah 31, 32. You know what they do? You know what these new versions do? They change Jeremiah 31, 32. They change it to say what it says in Hebrews chapter 8 verse 9. That's wrong. You know what they're trying to do? They're trying to like cover up the mistakes, they're like so-called mistakes. You know what you're doing? You're taking away from the word of God. You're adding and taking away. Because what's stated here in Jeremiah 31, 32 is not found now in the new versions at all. Okay? Because someone that believes the Bible, you know what you're going to find out? Is what's said in Hebrews chapter 8 is right and true. And what's said in Jeremiah 31, 32 is right and it's true. Now these new versions are missing information. So in Jeremiah 31, 32 it says, Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. Sounds very familiar, right? I mean it's pretty much the same exact thing that's said. Which my covenant they break, although I wasn't husband unto them, said the Lord. Now this is clearly not the same thing, right? You can't just equate this and be like, well being a husband unto somebody is the same as regarding them not. Like you can't equate those two things, right? That would be, have fun with that, right? But, the question then comes into, okay, why does it say something different? Why is it in Jeremiah it says I was a husband, though I was a husband unto them. Because even that it says they continue not in my covenant. And this they said they, which covenant they break, which you could equate that. I think that that's fair to say, breaking the covenant is not continuing the covenant. Not continuing the covenant is ultimately breaking the covenant, right? And you can say that's the same meaning, same thing, okay. But the husband, being a husband unto somebody and regarding someone not are two different things. Now let me show you where I believe what's going on here is that it's bringing two passages together. Meaning that this information was out there, it just wasn't in the same passage. Now Lamentations 4 and verse 16, which by the way Lamentations is written by Jeremiah. So, this is I believe all coming from Jeremiah. But it's just the fact that it's being put together, okay. It's being, it's saying hey this passage and this passage they go together. Isaiah 59, Jeremiah 31, they go together, right? That's what happens in a lot of these quotations and you know what? That's actually pretty good, isn't it? You know you talk about commentaries, you talk about Bible studies. How about the Bible will show you that these two passages go together. Because you could go through the study and be like I think these passages go together. But how about the places where there's a quotation putting them together. There's no doubt they go together, right? It's like there's no even question. I mean the Holy Ghost is saying these go together. So, it's a great tool to see that. And you know what these critical thinkers, you know, these people that want to change the Bible. They're just completely missing the point of what the Holy Ghost is doing. Just like over their head not getting it. You know what they try to do? They try to simplify things. They try to change it because it doesn't make sense to them. You know what they do? They screw it all up. Instead of like oh this is actually fantastic. This is actually showing me a lot more information. Now in Lamentations 4 and verse 16. I probably don't have to tell you but Lamentations is written about the fact that Jerusalem was completely annihilated by the Chaldeans. Right? So, the Lamentations meaning like the weeping and lamenting over it. But it says the anger of the Lord hath divided them. This is talking about Jerusalem. This is talking about Israel. Judea or Judah specifically. The anger of the Lord hath divided them. He will no more regard them. They respected not the persons of the priests. They favored not the elders. What are we talking about then? Well, in the New Testament it's clearly talking about how he's not regarding the Old Testament anymore. He's basically, he's taken away the first. They may establish the second. If there had been no fault with the first or no problem with the first, I mean, then no place would be sought for the second. That's the whole premise, right? So, when you get to, when you're talking about Jeremiah in that quotation, both are true. Guess what? Here's what's true. He made this covenant with them to bring them out of the land of Egypt. And they break it even though he was like a husband unto them. They break it, therefore he regarded them not. And both those statements are true. Both those are valid. There's no contradiction. And you know what? The King James Bible actually has that written down. Have fun finding that in the new versions. So, you didn't know you were getting King James Bible Part 2 this Sunday. But, I was actually talking about, brother Matt, because he was talking about the sermon and everything. I'm like, this will go well, I think. Because you kind of got that foundation of like, hey, believe King James Bible. And here's some avenues as far as how people try to attack it. And here's how you answer it. Now, another example of this, and I'm running out of time, but I just kind of have one more point that doesn't take as much time. I'm going to kind of blast through this a little bit. Okay, another example of this is, who soever believes on him shall not be ashamed. Okay, so in the New Testament, it'll state, you know, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone, a rock of offense. And who soever believes on him shall not be confounded. And another place it'll say, who soever believes on him shall not be ashamed. When you look that up, in Isaiah 28, verse 16, it says, he that believeth shall not make haste. And you're like, well, it doesn't say ashamed or confounded, it says haste. Now, in general, you shall not make haste, you shall not be confounded, you shall not be ashamed. It's the same principle, right? But, they are different things. Now, you say, well, okay, well, how is it saying it's written in the scripture? Because it says this in Isaiah 45, in verse 17, But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation, you shall not be ashamed nor confounded, world without end. There's what you have. You have the fact that it's basically saying, that goes. Why? Because what it says, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be what? Saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, with the mouth confesseth and made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth in him shall not be ashamed. Why? Because you're going to have everlasting salvation. You're going to be saved with an everlasting salvation if you believe. And you're not going to be ashamed, you're not going to be confounded, and you're not going to make haste. So, that's another example. Now sometimes, go to John chapter 7. I'm going to try to go through this quickly here. John chapter 7 and verse 37. My sermon will be shorter tonight. I only have three pages on that one. Probably because that's not my gift. I was joking with Holly, I'm preaching about the gift of healing. So, I don't have much to say on that one. Because it doesn't pertain to me. No, I'm just kidding. John chapter 7 verse 37. It says this, In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive. For the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified. Now, he's saying, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. Now, you won't find that quote. You won't find something stated exactly like that in the Old Testament. And this is where sometimes, there's a teaching in the Old Testament. But it's basically brought the light and explained in a very more revealed way. But in the Old Testament, that meaning or that essence of that happening is definitely there. In Jeremiah 2 and in Jeremiah 17, it talks about how the Lord is called the Fountain of Living Waters. Now, think about this. What is he talking about? The Holy Ghost dwelling inside of you, right? And so, it's talking about the Lord himself being a Fountain of Living Waters. It says this in Jeremiah 31, and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow any more at all. Isaiah 58 and verse 11, thou shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not. It says, now this is getting into, obviously, in the Song of Solomon, there's allegories when it comes to, obviously, the husband being God and the church being the wife or the, you know, as far as that relationship. But it says this, it says, a garden encloses my sister, my spouse. So, obviously, the bride of Christ, all that. A spring shut up, a fountain sealed, thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates with pleasant fruits, kaffir with spikenard, spikenard and saffron, and calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices, a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. So, here's a case where it's not exactly a quote in the Old Testament, but it definitely talks about it, right? And Jesus is saying, as the scripture has said, you know, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. Well, the fountain of living water is going to live inside of you, right? And then you have all these other passages talking about something very similar to that, okay? So, don't get caught up on it and be like, well, I don't see an exact quote. I mean, Jesus could just say it because he is the scripture, I mean, he is the word of God. But, either way, I do think it's mentioned. Now, the last thing to mention here, go to 1 Corinthians, chapter 14, and we'll be done. 1 Corinthians, chapter 14, and verse, and I'm just going to kind of explain this because I just take a time here. There's places where it'll say that the law says something, but it's not explicitly stated, but the meaning and understanding is there. And this is where you get into the spirit of law and the letter of the law, right? And the idea, like, it may not, in letters, say this, but you know from what you know of the law that it means, that that would apply, right? It's kind of like, what does this apply? There's a lot of places where you're like, it doesn't say this exactly, right? But, in 1 Corinthians, chapter 14, and verse 34, it says, Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak. For they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. Now, you won't find where it says women are commanded to be in obedience. But, at the same time, that concept is definitely taught in the law, right? Now, for example, there's some things that are just known. For example, 1 Corinthians 15, dealing with how God the Father is going to put all things under Jesus' feet. It says in 1 Corinthians 15, 27, for He hath put all things under His feet, but when He saith, all things are put under Him, it is manifest that He's accepted, which did put all things under Him, right? Meaning, this is like, when it says all things are put under Him, it's known that God the Father is not being put under Him. Right? Even though, you don't have to say that, right? It's just known. And, the same thing is that, when the Bible, the Bible doesn't teach, it doesn't command women to preach, and women to be in an office, and all these different things, does it? Therefore, they're to be in obedience. How about this? One example of this, you can look up later, is in Numbers, chapter 30, dealing with vows. And women, that are in their household, their father has the authority to basically say, that vow doesn't stand. You make a vow, and your father says, no, guess what, doesn't stand. And then, the same thing applies for husbands and wives. If my wife makes a vow, and I'm like, no you didn't, that isn't going to happen. You're not making that vow, guess what, doesn't stand in the sight of God. You know what that is? Obedience. Because the women are to be subjected unto their own husbands, and the daughters are to be subjected unto their fathers. And that concept of obedience is in the spirit of the law, right? So sometimes you'll get that, and you know what's great about knowing that right there? Isn't there something we say out so many all the time? The Bible says you cannot lose your salvation. Now let me ask you a question. That's true, right? The Bible teaches that concept, and that doctrine is in the Bible. But does the Bible say, quote, you cannot lose your salvation? It doesn't, right? It doesn't say that exact quote. But, you know, the Bible says, I will in no wise cast you out. You know, like obviously, that whole belief and doctrine is there. But, you know what, the Bible is basically stating that you can say, hey, the Bible says this, and then insert doctrine, right? The Bible teaches the Trinity. The Trinity is not in the Bible, it doesn't say Trinity. It's like, yeah, but there are three that bear record in heaven. The Father, the Lord, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. That doctrine is there, I just used a different word, right? So, that is true as well, and sometimes you'll see that where it doesn't have a direct quote. You know, there's not like passages being mixed together, but it's essentially the Bible teaches that women are to be subjected unto their fathers. And then when they're out of the home, they're to be subject unto their husbands. And that's actually the whole premise of what was being said there, is that you need to go, you need to ask your husband, right? So, I hope that makes sense. I know that's a lot to take in. You're like, when are you going to preach a short sermon on Sunday? I don't know. But, if you have any questions, or if there's another case that you're thinking about, or another passage that you're thinking about, like how do you answer this? Let me know. So, let's end with the word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you today. Thank you for your word, and just thank you for the perfection of the word of God. And Lord, thank you that you gave it to us in our language, that we can read that perfect word in our language in the King James Bible, and Lord, we just thank you for that. Praise you. Help us in our Bible studies, and help us to understand these passages. Help us to know everything that you'd want us to know. Lord, we love you, and praise you be with us as we go out soloing in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. By the day, we'll come and sing one more song, and that will be dismissed. I heard the bells on Christmas Day, song 426. Song 426 in your songbooks. If you would stand, we'll sing I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, song 426. I heard the bells on Christmas Day, their old familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat, Of peace on earth, good will to men. I thought how as the day had come, The bell of all Christendom Had rolled among the unbroken song, Of peace on earth, good will to men. And in despair I bowed my head, There is no peace on earth, I said, For hate is strong and mocks the song, Of peace on earth, good will to men. Then pealed the boughs more loud and deep, God is not dead, nor doth he sleep. The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.