Oh, amen. Out of the ivory palaces into a world of woe. You know, it says in the Psalms that God has to humble himself. We understand the sinfulness of man and what a humbling thing that would have to be for God to observe sinful man. Did you realize that God humbles himself to even observe things that go on in heaven? That is even a humbling thing to observe the things that go on in heaven. That's the highness of our God. That's the grandeur and the majesty and just the excellence of God. Anything that goes on here, you know, things were a little mixed up this morning, weren't they? All right, things not according to plan for some things. Even in the Sunday school hour, in the opening, you know, Brother Dale sang the fourth verse when he meant to sing the third verse or vice versa. And then he realized, oh no, I was on the right verse. And the thought just occurred to me, you know, we might say, oh Lord, please meet with us in spite of our failures. But that implies that there's some days that he meets with us because we're good. How foolish of us to think that. How foolish of us to think that God would meet with us simply because of some goodness in us. No, my friends, the only reason God meets with us is because he knows that we need him. He's merciful. It's great mercy, great grace that he shows us. Anytime that he'll inspire understanding in you at all, and we're gonna look at that verse today, it's because of his great grace and mercy. All right, so don't think too highly of ourselves. Don't get yourself so prim and proper that you think that you are above the stench of this world. No, you go ahead and don't bathe for a week, and we'll just see how corrupt you really are. Some of us, it doesn't take a week, but well, that's the corruptness of our flesh. Oh, but praise the Lord, this is even a purifying of the flesh that takes place. Well, we're gonna go to Luke chapter 20 this morning. I wanna share with us just a concept, a thought that would help us in further Bible study. Okay, there's some things that if we can grab a hold of, these are these precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little. These concepts out of the word of God that if we could just grab hold of and understand, it would aid us in helping us to understand the word of God. There are certain things that we look at and we might say, well, that's just maybe lyrical genius of the translators of the King James Bible, or maybe that was just a way that things were spoken back then. But when you have the mindset, and I'm gonna lay before you a mindset, and I don't want you to grab right ahold of this only because I said it, I want you to consider it and weigh it. Okay? Every word of God is pure. Does that sound reasonable? Okay? Every word of God is pure. Something that is pure has no corruption in it. And I'll go so far as to say that every word of God that is pure cannot be corrupted because they are the very words of God. Let that be a precept that God lays in your mind. Consider that, weigh the merits of that. And I want you to consider where are, don't answer this verbally, but where are those pure words today? Where are those pure words today? If every word of God is pure, they have to be somewhere. We're gonna look at some things today and lay this all out, and Lord willing, we'll have the time to do all of this, and if we don't have the time to do it, we'll just take the time. and we'll just go with it from there. Listen, if something happens and the Lord actually shows up in this stuff and he really starts pressing on and it drags on and you have to go someplace, just get up and go. You won't offend me, you certainly won't disrupt the service, but just do what you have to do. I'll give you this much too. If the spirit of slumber overtakes you today and you really just are having a hard time fighting to stay awake, just quietly get up, move to the back and just stand in the back. I guarantee it'll help you. I guarantee it'll help you. Whatever you gotta do to hear the Word of God this morning. But how important are the words of God? How important are the words of God? I would say they are a matter of life and death. That's how important the words of God are. And how do we know the words of God? How do we know what the very words of God are, those words that are pure? How do we know what they are? Well, he's given to them, to us. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. And what's interesting about that passage is it starts out by saying all scripture is given by inspiration of God. Something that is scripture is something that is written down. So it's been transferred from, given from God to the spoken word to the written word, okay? That is the process of how we have the words of God. Now, what good would those words be if that was where the perfection of them ended? What good would they be? They would help that generation and that generation alone. The words that Jeremiah received would only be applicable and helpful to the generation that Jeremiah lived in, if that was as far as the hand of God went. If the hand of God would not transfer anything whatsoever to the following generation, well, those words would be then only good for that generation, and we would glean nothing from them. Same with the words of Christ, same with the words of Paul, John, Noah, okay? Whatever you would wanna look at, anything contained in what we know as scripture, If God was only going to give them to us perfectly and then take his hands off and leave it to the whims and understanding and intelligence of men from there on out, well, that would actually be contrary to scripture. Because by wisdom, man knew, not God. You can't know God by wisdom. By your own wisdom, you can't know God. So how do we know what God gave us? How do we know what is his word? How do we find that? Let's look at some scriptures today and see what Jesus thought about that very topic. Go to Luke chapter 20 if you're not already there. Look at the start of verse 26. There's these scribes and Pharisees that are trying to get Jesus tripped up in his own words, finding something wherewith they could accuse him. Verse 26 says, and they could not take hold of his words before the people, and they marveled at his answer and held their peace. Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection, and they asked him. Now, that's a very important thing. They denied, the Sadducees, and everyone says, you know, they were sad, you see, because they didn't believe in a resurrection after the dead. You know, that's how I always remember it, and I don't see anything wrong with that, it fits. But all that to say is they did not believe in the resurrection. They believed that basically once you die, that's it, you're dead. And they came to him, they asked him, saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, if any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up, rather, seed unto his brother. There were therefore seven brethren. The first took a wife and died without children. The second took her to wife, and he died childless. The third took her, and in like manner, the seven also. And they died, and they left no children and died. Last of all, the woman died also. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of them is she? For seven had her to wife." Now, this is something that the Sadducees had, and it seems as though this is something that they had taken the Pharisees in. I can't say that for certain. I'm not preaching that as dogma. Okay, that's not doctrine. But this is almost what would be known as a trump card, okay? This is what they would lay down and say, here's this, you have no answer for this because I'm using the law and I am laying it before you in such a way that you have no way out of this. And they lay this before Jesus Christ and he then takes them in their own words. Look at verse 34. And Jesus answering said unto them, the children of this world marry and are given in marriage, but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage. Neither can they die anymore for they are equal unto the angels and are the children of God being the children of the resurrection. Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush. Now we know that, and we know what happened at the bush, and we're gonna read that in just a second. When he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, for he is not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all live unto him. Now, I want you to keep your place here, and go to Exodus chapter three. Keep your hand right there or a bookmark or however you want to keep it. Go to Exodus chapter 3, start at verse 1. Exodus 3 verse 1, now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to the mountain of God even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush, and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, here am I. And he said, draw not nigh hither, but put off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover, he said, I am the God of my father, of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face for he was afraid to look upon God. Now, Jesus said that this is proof of the resurrection. that the way that God addresses Moses is proof that there's a resurrection. He says, now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, for he's not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all live unto him. The Sadducees did not have an answer to that. The Sadducees had this impossible scenario. An absolutely impossible scenario, but yet Jesus Christ, with the use of the tense of one verb, totally blows their doctrine out of the water. He comes at them with the tense of one verb and proves to them that their doctrine is wrong. What would it take for you to prove to you that your doctrine was wrong? The things that you know, the things that you've been taught, the things you've been instructed in, what would it take for you to be convinced that your doctrine is wrong? Jesus used not only just one verb, but the tense of one verb. What do I mean by that? He said, I am the God of Abraham. I am the God of Isaac. I am the God of Jacob. God's not a God of the dead, but of the living, which means they were still going to live. And Jesus, thousands and thousands and thousands of copyings of the words of God later, uses the tense of the scripture where it says, I am. And he proves that the Sadducees are wrong with that verb. How much do you think Jesus trusted those scriptures? Enough to prove that those Sadducees were wrong. Enough to prove doctrinally that God is a God of resurrection. Do you think maybe this was important? Do you think maybe even the tense of the verbs that you have in your Bible is important? Past, present, future tense. That's why we look at those ETH words and we say, ah, there's rich gold in that. Because that, according to the context of wherever that word is at, it either fills all the tenses of the verb, or it shows a continual tense of that verb. But Jesus uses this I am. It's present tense. And it is doctrinally sound. This is one place where you can trust your King James Bible. All right? The Bible that God has given you, that you have before you this morning, and I hope you do at least, the Bible that you have before you uses that. You say, well, all the other ones do too. Yeah, but there's some other things, and we're not gonna get into that this morning. That's not the purpose. That's not the purpose at all. I'm not here to discount any other version of the Bible. That's not at all what I'm doing. I'm here to help you to believe your Bible. I'm here to help you believe the King James Bible. The Bible that God has given you. Now, the tense of that word is very important. And we're gonna go to Proverbs 30 to see why. Quoted it at the beginning. Proverbs chapter 30. We're building line upon line, precept upon precept here. Proverbs chapter 30 in verse five says this. Wait till you get there. Proverbs 30, verse five, every word of God is pure. He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. This is a doctrinal verse. Jesus wept is a doctrinal verse. The generation of Jesus Christ is a doctrinal verse. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth is a doctrinal verse. I'm gonna go so far as to say that all 969,770 words in your King James Bible are doctrinal. There's not a bit of this Bible that you hold before you that is not profitable for doctrine. What does that mean? There's nothing in here that you can cut out and throw away. That's a pretty simple concept. When you take what this Bible says exactly as it's written, in the context that it's written, to whom it is written, and you look at those verses doctrinally saying, what does this tell me about God? What does this tell me about Jesus? What does this tell me about sin? What does this tell me about mankind? What does this tell me about cattle? Whatever the topic is, you look at that thing and you're looking at it doctrinally. What we are experiencing today, specifically in America, but it is worldwide, maybe because of the influence of the American church on the world, but we're in a dearth of being able to doctrinally discern scripture. Because all that we've done is we've made fancy three-point outlines, thrown some poetry in there, and spiritualized everything. We've made it easy to memorize, easy to remember, easy to recall the jokes, easy to recall the stories that were told. But we've gotten away from doctrinally preaching things. What is this actually saying? Jesus believed in looking to scriptures doctrinally. Do you know why? Because he didn't just take, I am the God of Isaac and of Abraham and of Jacob, and he didn't just take that and say, you know, this is what God was telling Moses, and so Sadducees, he can be your God too. That's not what he was saying, no. He looked at that word, and he looked at the tense of the word am, and he said, no, no, your doctrine is false, because God is not the God of the dead, he's the God of the living, because he said, I am. And all those men had already died. By the way, he says, before Abraham was, I am. Do you think that's doctrinal? What does that tell us about Jesus Christ? He's eternal. Eternal has no beginning and no end. Everlasting, doctrinally, looking at it, has a starting point, but it lasts ever. It lasts forever, it's everlasting. The difference between eternal and everlasting. Very simple concepts, but these are things that we overlook because we just lump these words together because we think, oh, this is just written in old English. No, this is written in early modern English, and nobody spoke this way. Nobody spoke the way that the King James Bible is written. You say, well, it sounds an awful lot like Shakespeare. Yep, nobody spoke like Shakespeare wrote either. People won't squabble over the writings of Shakespeare, but yet they'll squabble over the writings of the King James Bible. They'll call you learned if you look at the writings of Shakespeare and you study them and memorize them, but they'll call you antiquated if you study the King James Bible and use that terminology. And that's just human reasoning, that's all that it is. But we need to be careful because even those of us who claim to be people of the book, you know, there's that catchphrase that is fancy right now for that. People that would hold a King James Bible and say, this is the word of God. We get it into the place where we look at the words and we don't audibly say it, but we wonder if that's really what that was supposed to say. We'll begin questioning. And I want you to understand where the questioning of the word of God started. It started in Genesis 3, with a little wriggly serpent that said, yea, hath God said? He's not gonna get you to deny the words of God, but he's gonna get you to question is, what did he actually say? Well, if it was relying upon our intelligence and upon our memory, we'd be in big trouble, but thank God he gave us today a Bible. I believe that God gave us a Bible. That sets me apart from some preachers. Some preachers don't believe that God gave us a Bible. They won't say that, but that's what they're meaning because they'll say the Bible is contained in the Textus Receptus and the Hebrew Masoretic Text. That's where the Bible is contained. That's where our authority is. And I go further than that. I believe that, but I believe God gave us a Bible. I believe God gave us a volume of the book. Doctrinally, is it sound, doctrinally, to consider that God would give us a volume of the book, all the scriptures in one book? Do you know why it's doctrinally sound? Because he said he would. Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me. Okay, reasonable. Every word of God is pure. He's a buckler, what does that say? He's a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Every word. It doesn't say all, it says every. Now, every encompasses all, but it shifts the focus. The focus isn't on the group, not the 969,770. It's not that. It focuses on each individual word, every word. Doctrinally, there's an amazing verse for that, Hebrews 2.9. Let's turn there real quick. For sake of time, when I get to these places, I'll just start reading. If you can't keep up, that's okay. Just pay attention. Maybe jot the verse down. You can look it up afterwards. Hebrews 2.9. It says, but we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that he, by the grace of God, should taste death for all men. Is that what it says? Every man. Every man. That includes every single individual that has ever drawn a breath and will ever draw a breath. Every single life, every single soul, every individual, he tasted death for every man. He didn't just die with the sin of mankind, he died with your sin. We'll use some accurate pronoun. He died for thy sin. Okay? He was made into you on that cross. He was made to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. How was that made possible? He tasted death for every man. And so therefore, every word of God is pure. There is not a single word that God can speak or will speak that is not pure. And so again, I ask you, where are these pure words? They have to be somewhere. He promised that they would be. Go to Psalm chapter 12. The 12th Psalm. I believe that Psalm 12 is messianic, but we're not looking doctrinally at the messianic application of this Psalm. We're looking doctrinally at how, what God says about his words here. It starts out in verse one. Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth, for the faithful fail from among the children of men. So he's talking about ungodly men. They speak vanity every one with his neighbor, with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. The Lord shall cut off the flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things. Who have said, with our tongue will we prevail, with our lips are our own, or our lips are our own, who is the Lord over us? For the oppression of the poor and for the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, saith the Lord, and I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. So he's talking about wicked people. Talking about a wicked generation. A generation of wicked people that use their tongues deceitfully and that do have absolutely no regard for God. That's what he's referring to here. And now let's just look at verse six in light of that. The words of the Lord are pure words. Now, we just saw in Proverbs 30, verse five, that every word of God is pure. Out of the mouth of two and three witnesses is every matter established. So, on authority of the word of God, you ought to have this thing established in your heart by now, that every word of God is pure. The words of the Lord are pure words. Now, words, that's speaking of the individual words. That's speaking of every word, all right, in the plurality here. Not just word in general, as though it's just the general concepts of what's contained in here. And honestly, the problem with going to that general body of Christian knowledge that all Catholics believe, and all Methodists believe, and all Baptists believe, and all Mormons believe, and I mean, you can find things that you can agree with almost every religious group out there, okay? That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the doctrine that is contained in even the very tense of a word. It's pure. As silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times, and doctrinally we've looked at that before, he says, thou shalt keep them, O Lord. Well, what's he talking about, them? He's talking about the individual words, not just the thoughts, not just the concepts, but the very words themselves. God himself is going to keep them. He's gonna keep them what? He's gonna keep them pure. Thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever. It doesn't say from this generation and forever. It says from this generation. So a preservation, what is a preservation? Well, this is another broad stroke thing that, especially in fundamental circles, that will hold the King James Bible as being the word of God. They'll say, well, God has preserved his word for the English-speaking people in the King James Bible, and I don't argue with that at all. I don't argue with that at all. I wouldn't even contend with it. But then when you look at this thing, thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from, So a preservation is a preservation from corruption. When you make preserves, what happens? You take jam and you mix it with gelatin and whatever else you ladies make jam with, I'm really not even sure. To me, it's almost witchery. Put it in this thing and you boil it and it sits in that jar and it seals itself because it cools down and it doesn't rot. I don't understand that, okay? But what? You've preserved it. You've done something so that that jam in that jar is not going to rot. Now eventually it'll go bad, it'll spoil. I understand that, okay? But there's a process that it went through so that it wouldn't spoil, so that it wouldn't be corrupted. See where I'm going? God is preserving his words from that generation. What generation? The generation of people that would corrupt them. He's keeping his words from being corrupted. That's what this is saying. I wouldn't contend with somebody that says that God is gonna keep them from that generation, that generation that was there, and forever, and he'll never let them be corrupted. I'm not gonna contend with that at all, I believe that. But that's not doctrinally what this is saying. He's saying he's going to keep them from that generation so they can't corrupt them. Which means that every generation is always going to have the pure words of God. Now, where are they today? Where are they today? Are they in the Greek and Hebrew texts? Yes, they are. They absolutely are. Does that do you any good? No, it does not. Because we've gotten to the point where we rely on men to translate and interpret from those old languages into English, because no one here was born speaking Greek. That ancient Greek, no one here was born speaking that. No one here was born speaking Hebrew. Nobody. You may know some Greek, you may know some Hebrew, but where did the definitions of those words come from? Where did they come from? Where did you learn what that word agape meant? Okay, where did you learn where that word eros meant? You had to go to either a lexicon or a Greek and Hebrew dictionary. You ever stop to consider where those men got those definitions? Or is the Greek and Hebrew something that just floats out in the ethereal world and it just kind of shows up and hey, we know what this word means. No, there were men that wrote lexicons. There were men that wrote dictionaries. And if you do just a little bit of research and a little bit of background study, James Strong was very, very much involved in 1881 with the translation of the revised version of the Bible with Westcott and Hort. He was a key figure in the American Standard Version of 1901. His name is on those documents. As a close friend of Westcott and Hort, he shared many of the same beliefs, which is why when you look at many definitions that James Strong has in his Strong's Exhaustive Concordance with the Greek and Hebrew lexicon in the back, love the concordance part, but the definitions, you're gonna find that those words many times are the very words that are used in the newer Bibles. So if you go to James Strong's definitions to find the deeper meaning of your Greek or Hebrew word, you're actually looking at the very words, the exact wording that is in the New Bible. So you might as well go to the New Bibles. You're using the same definitions, the same words, okay? Henry Thayer is the same way. Briggs, Driver, and Sutton, I think. I can't remember the other one that was involved in that one. It's the same way. Liddell. Liddell did a Greek lexicon. I won't get into the spurious background of Liddell, but his lexicon over an 80-year period after he had written it went through 28 revisions because of errors within it, okay? His definitions were wrought after going to a wine club and he and another friend, while they were away at college, they would then stay up late into the night and go to the antiquities of different literature and they would come up with these definitions for these things and they made this lexicon. That lexicon that was bred out of drunkenness is what's used in the Bible program Logos today. Logos, however you want to say it. That's what they use for their Greek lexicon is from Liddell. Okay. Again, another friend of Westcott and Hort. So what am I saying? Well, if you're going to go to Greek and Hebrew, that's fine. But how do you know what that means? Who are you trusting? Who are you trusting? The Greek and Hebrew of the Hebrew Mesoretic text of the Old Testament and the Greek text of the Textus Receptus of the New Testament, they are both the word of God. They are absolutely the word of God. I hold them in a very high regard, as do I my King James Bible, okay? Now getting into the translation and the history of translation and all of that, I would be here until three o'clock this afternoon, and I would love every second of it, okay? But let's look at some Bible. Go to 2 Timothy, 2 Timothy chapter three. By the way, all those things that I said about those lexicons and everything, you can find that online in many, many places. You can find it in other literature that has been cited many, many times. And it's really quite simple if you just research the history behind Westcott and Hort and the names that were associated with that. I have a revised New Testament. That was what was released in 1881. I have an 1881 version of that, okay, a printing of it, one of the first edition printings up in my office. And on there, James Strong's name is attached right there as one of the translators. Okay, just in case you're still wandering. 2 Timothy chapter 3, look at verse 15. And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. From a child, Timothy knew the Holy Scriptures. Not just the Holy Scriptures, the ones that were able to make him wise unto salvation. Unto, being that delivery thing, you know, it's not just to in a general direction, but no, it has come to that thing, okay? You mail a letter to somebody, And it becomes mailed unto them when it gets to their mailbox. They pull it out, open it up, and read it. Okay, it was delivered. Okay, that's the difference between to and unto. And he says this, all scripture. Now, he just mentioned the Holy Scriptures. What scriptures were they that Timothy had? It's nothing new. It's the Old Testament scriptures. He might have had a little bit here and there by this time of some of the New Testament scriptures, but at the point where he is speaking up from a child, all Timothy had was the Old Testament scriptures. And then Paul continues on further and he says, all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. And that does not say thoroughly furnished. Thoroughly furnished means it would meet each and every single individual need. My wife, did you learn how to play the piano so we could sing hymns? Did you learn that from the King James Bible? If your Bible says thoroughly furnished, it's kind of incorrect. What is throughly? Well, if you were to burn this building thoroughly, there would be nothing but ashes, okay? It would just burn right to the ground. It was thoroughly burnt. Throughly burnt, though, would mean that the fire burned all the way through. It touched every room. There wasn't a room that wasn't touched, okay? All good works, You are thoroughly furnished in this Bible. It's not gonna instruct you on how to play the piano, but it's gonna set in your heart that, hey, I ought to learn how to play the piano so I can play it in church, okay? It's just those little things. Oxford changed that word from throughly to thoroughly, okay? So if your Bible says that, it's off of an Oxford text, right? 260 differences between the pure Cambridge text and the Oxford text. But at any rate, every word of God is pure, so that's important to me, okay? But he says all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for what? What's the very first thing it's profitable for? Jesus proved that in our text that we started out with, that all scripture, right down, not just in the general thought of the phrase of what is in that scripture, but the very tense of the smallest of verbs, am. It's important for doctrine. All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine. Now, when you look at your Bible and you open this Bible, there's not a single word that you're gonna lay your eyes upon in the text of the scripture that is not profitable for doctrine. Why? Because your Bible tells you that all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine. So when you look at any verse, any word, any tense of a word, anything, right down to the punctuation, you look at this thing, it is important for doctrine. And that's the reason it was given. And it's inspired by God for that. Now, how do we understand that? How do we understand what, doctrine we're supposed to be looking at? How does that come to us? Do I have to go to school and learn these old languages so that I can understand the deeper meanings of the things of God, like the Catholics teach? Or do I have to, yes, they do. They do. Don't argue with me on that. I heard your heart raise up. Or do you think I could just take what 1 John 2.20 says and take it as scripture? You have an unction from the Holy One and you know all things. It says you already know it because of that unction. Verse 27 of that same chapter in 1 John says that you know all things. That same anointing which you perceived of him abideth in you and you need not that any man should teach you. You need not that any man should teach you. You don't need me to teach you these things. But the pastor was given to you to help you in these things. I'm not here to teach you the word of God. I'm here to show you how to use the word of God and how to let God teach you. And it is a thing you have to let happen. You'll fight against it. Oh, you'll fight against it. You'll say, because people have probably told you, oh, that's just your mind wandering off. I've talked with some of you and you've let your mind wander just recently in your studyings of your King James Bible. And God has begun showing you some amazing things as you follow those rabbit trails throughout. Isn't it amazing that the Holy Ghost would grab hold of you and grab your hand and say, hey, I know you're reading here. Look at that word now. Come on, let's go over here and look. Just let him lead you. Let him lead you in that. Just see what he teaches you. All right? If at the end of it, you don't find anything, well, just wait a couple of days. I figured out this morning why I was reading in Ephesians chapter 3 throughout the week, and I just really had no idea why. I saw some things, I saw some connections, some stuff I haven't even spoken of, I talked with my wife about, so that might come out later, I don't know. But there's all these things that come up, and you gotta let God teach you. All right, now let's pay attention. Everybody look up here just real quick. All right, this is an exercise in teaching because sometimes our minds tend to wander and it isn't that God is leading us there, it's just I'm rambling on and I lose you, so I want to grab your focus again. Very good, amen. Everybody that's still awake say amen. Amen. Okay, but all scripture is given by inspiration of God. An interesting thing about that word inspiration, it's only used twice in your Bible. It's only used two times. here in 2 Timothy 3.16 and over in Job chapter 32. So let's go there. Let's go to Job chapter 32. Let's see the only other place in the entirety of the word of God what God has to say about the word inspiration and we'll see a little bit better doctrinally what God means by inspiration. A coin phrase, and this is something that I'll put as a hashtag on this message when I'm done, because this is something that everybody raises up against and says, oh, it's this, and it automatically labels you. Double inspiration. We've been warned about double inspiration our whole lives. Somebody define that for me. Can anybody in here define double inspiration? You've heard it before. No? Okay. What's spoken of as double inspiration is that God gave the scriptures by inspiration. All scriptures given by inspiration will say that God breathed his word out, because that word inspiration, it has a connotation of the breath. And so he breathed into you of that word, but it was only into those writers, and they wrote the thing down, okay? That's inspiration. That's how it was given, was by inspiration. One problem with that is when you inspire, you breathe in. When you expire, you breathe out. Think of somebody that dies, okay? Especially around the year 1611, when somebody would die, they would say that they expired, okay? What is that? They took their last breath in and breathed the thing out. They expired, okay? So really, taking that thought process, God outside of you looking at that prophet and saying, I'm going to breathe into you that scripture, and then there's that scripture and you'd write it down. It's contrary, it doesn't work. In order to breathe in inspiration, where does God have to be? Already inside of you. So it's breathing in that thing, All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine. That's what we're looking at here primarily. Look at Job 32 in verse eight. But there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Now, your scholastic background may automatically throw up in your face the word illumination. You may have learned that from somebody. I had a great man of God that I still hold in some regard, but he dropped way down when he said this. I showed him this verse here. We were talking about the word of God, and I was enjoying the conversation, and I said, hey, let's look at this, because I figured maybe he'd never know. As soon as I read that word inspiration, he said, oh, a better word there would be illumination. So he's correcting the word of God. That's not the right word to be there. But how does he know? Who told him that? Yea, hath God said? That's who told him. You tag it to whoever, whatever professor, whatever man of God, it doesn't matter. It's yea, hath God said, if you're gonna question your Bible. That's what it is. Oh, let the righteousness rain down upon us. Amen. It's raining outside. Why fight against the Word of God? Now, doctrinally, Inspiration. It's that breathing in. That's how scripture was given. It was by inspiration. God was in those prophets. 1 Peter 1 11 tells you that it was the spirit of Christ in them that was actually speaking. 1 Peter talks about it and it says that holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. They were moved by the Holy Ghost to speak by the spirit of Jesus Christ. That's how that worked. Okay. It's the Godhead in that prophet breathing in inspiration. Now, what doctrinally does this verse say about inspiration? There is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the almighty giveth them understanding. Doctrinally, what does inspiration do? What does it do? Gives understanding. That's what your Bible says. Do you think maybe those men of God that spake had some understanding in the things that they spake of? Yes, because he inspired it. Do you think down through the ages God was able to inspire some understanding in some men? You yourself, have you ever been reading the word of God and all of a sudden something became so unbelievably clear that you just knew that's what that was? Oh, that's what that is. Do you know what just happened? God inspired in this understanding in you. It was in you of a truth and he breathed in understanding and all of a sudden you understood something. The only way you will ever have understanding of anything spiritual is if God inspires understanding in you. So tell me again why double inspiration is bad. It's in your Bible twice. Just saying. Somebody listening, somebody here today might be thinking, oh, this kid's a Ruckmanite. No, I've never, ever, ever, ever read a single book by Peter Ruckman. If you don't know who that is, don't worry about it. If you do, don't worry about it because I've never read any of his books, never listened to any of his preaching, never one time. What I've come to find about the word of God is completely separate from that, man. What I have come to find about the word of God is that every word of God is pure. Do you know why? Because the Bible says it. And Christ died for every man. Do you know why I know that? Because the Bible says it. And the understanding comes when God inspires that understanding in you. Do you know why I believe that? Because the Bible says it. The Bible says love, it means love. The Bible says charity, it means charity. The Bible says hell, it means hell. If the Bible says stones, it means stones. If it means rock, it means rock. If it means water, if it says water, it means water. If it says the word spirit, it's not just the word pneuma, and you could look at that and translate it however, re-translate it however you want. It means spirit. Now, I believe that the men of God, that translated and rather interpreted those Old Testament Scriptures and the New Testament Scriptures into English, I believe they had some understanding in the things that they were doing. Okay? I believe that any man who did not have any understanding has no business touching the Word of God as far as translation goes. Okay? If there's a language today that does not have the word of God, I absolutely, 100% believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that God could move upon a man, or a group of men, and they could take those scriptures and put it into whatever language God wants it in. He's God. What language predominantly was spoken in the Old Testament scriptures? Predominantly? Hebrew. There's some Aramaic in there. There's some Babylonian in there. Okay? What predominantly was spoken in the New Testament though? Aramaic. What's the New Testament written in? Greek. What's interesting to me is that language has never been a barrier for God. Never been a problem for him. When he needed to confound it, he confounded it. When he needed to undo that confounding, huh, he undid it. Day of Pentecost. It's the Spirit in man, the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. If you've ever understood anything about the Word of God, it's because God has inspired that understanding in you. Amen, Brother Dale. Now, Let's go to John chapter 12. We're just gonna keep plugging along at this. We're winding down, we're not quite there yet. John chapter 12, there's something very important I want you to understand about the very words of Jesus Christ and why it's important that we do indeed have all of his words. Okay? John chapter 12, look at verse 44. Jesus cried and said, he that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. I am come a light into the world that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. And if any man hear my words, words, okay, speaking of the individual words, and believe not, I judge him not. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of myself, but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. Whatsoever I speak, therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. So why are the words of the word of God important? Why are the words of Jesus important? Not just the thoughts, not just generally what he spoke, but why are the exact words of Jesus Christ important? Because those are the things that are gonna judge you at the last day. The books are gonna be open. You know what books? All 66 of them. And he's gonna go through each one. And he's gonna say, you did not believe this. You didn't believe this. You didn't believe this. You didn't believe that. Condemned. If you're lost. If you're born again, he's gonna open that same book of books and he'll say, why didn't you believe this? Why didn't you believe this? Why didn't you believe this? I sent you a preacher specifically that said this and you refuse to believe it. Yea, hath God said. You know, one thing I love about God is he is a God of absolutes. And that's something that has risen up against in the world today. I understand that. But God's a God of absolutes. You either believe him or you don't. You're either born again or you're not. And the word of God that he puts before you, he's going to judge you by that word. Absolutely. You're not gonna be able to weasel your way out of it. If you think he was clever with what he used on the Sadducees, just wait till he sees what he uses on you. Why wouldn't God give you all of his words purely and perfectly if he's gonna judge you by them someday? What kind of a God is that? Can I ask you this? Who told you not to believe the word of God? Who told you that one word should be different? In which case, who told them? Who told you not to believe every single word of God is pure when he even said it was? Who told you? Certainly wasn't the Spirit of God. Certainly wasn't the Spirit of God. Oh, let's see, we could go to Psalm 19, we could go to Psalm 119. You know what tonight we're gonna do? We're gonna look at the word interpretation. I had this tagged on to the end here, but I think that's what we're gonna look at tonight. Because I believe the Lord's done here. He's accomplished what he desired to accomplish, I believe. I had liberty this morning. I thank you, those who are praying for me. I had liberty this morning. But I wanna leave you with this. Why don't you believe that every word in this Bible is written exactly as it's supposed to be? Why don't you believe that? I was told by those who had scholarship not to. I was told with, according to the light that they had been given, that there are some words that should have been translated differently. And I heard that out of the mouth of Jim Shetler, that man of God. He was the campus pastor at Pensacola for many years. And I just find myself wondering, Who told you not to believe every word of God is exactly as it's supposed to be? Was it God? What if, and I'll leave you with this question, what if this is written exactly as God wants it to be? Just what if? What doctrinally would that imply? If you look at all 969,770 words in this King James Bible, and you, what if you were to actually believe every single one of them is exactly what it says? What then? I made that conscious choice back in late 2019. And the only thing that I have found since then is riches. is gold, is silver. And I found a purity that I never dreamt was even possible in here. I've seen Jesus Christ in a way and in a light and I've seen him places I never knew he was. But yet now I literally hear His voice coming from those passages. I will never, ever be able to look at Psalm 22, 23, and 24, and 25. I'll never be able to look at those four Psalms. Psalm 18, Psalm 69. I'll never be able to look at those, Psalm 2. Listen, ever again the same. Do you know why? Because I hear the words of my Savior. his sufferings as he was made into me." And there's a richness there. And can I tell you there's no danger in this book aside from not believing it. Don't call God a liar. Just take him at his word. Get there and I think we're done. I think that'll