in verse three, endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one spirit, even as you're called in one hope of your calling. And going off of what we just looked at, this is what I wanted to bring to light. The Lord kind of laid it on my heart to just, it's time to just dig into that and figure out what each of those things is, that one body, that one spirit, the hope, he called him one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and father of all and all of that. And just single out exactly what those things are. They preach and they roll off the tongue so well, but doctrinally, what are we looking at? Like, what are we talking about? One body. Well, I can tell you with absolute assurity that that is the body of Jesus Christ. Absolutely certain of that and I got scripture for that and when it comes time to preach it I will that's not tonight that one spirit that's what I've been chewing on and trying to figure that thing out and Settled in on that and I fully believe that's speaking of the Holy Ghost right there. That is that Holy Ghost You go into the law and you see that that call above the liver that was taken out of those animals. It was that that lubricating membrane around all of those internal organs that kept everything bound together and That is that Holy Ghost. It's the same thing as that oil in that meat offering of that flower, binding that flower together so that it would make that cake, so it would be acceptable as an oblation unto the Lord and a meat offering unto the Lord and all of that. And it is that Holy Ghost that is that thing that binds us together, that unity, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. And there is one body, that's the body of Jesus Christ, one Spirit, It's that spirit of Jesus Christ. And it says, even as you are called in one hope of your calling. In that hope of your calling, there is one hope spoken of. And from what I've seen, and I cannot yet say, because I have not examined every single place it's used in the word of God, but I believe in the majority of them at least, I will say that 99.99999% of the places where you look at the hope that it speaks of in the word of God, and it is that hope of the resurrection. That is our hope. It's that hope of the resurrection. That was the hope of the Old Testament saints. It's the hope of the New Testament saints. It'll be the hope of the saints during the tribulation and the hope of the saints throughout eternity is that hope of the resurrection. Because, as we looked at this morning, we're gonna dive back into that. God is not the God of the living, or not the God of the dead, but of the living. Because he said, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Told that to Moses. And we looked at those things. The importance of even the tense of one little verb, that am. Okay? And so, you know, all of that together, that hope of your calling, that is the hope of the resurrection. That call goes out into all the earth. Truly, it has. It's gone into all the earth. And have they not all heard? Yes, they have. But they don't all have ears to hear. And Isaiah goes into that in some depth. But that's not the preaching for tonight, but that's kind of the precursor to it and spinning off of the end of our singing tonight. Praise the Lord for singing. By degrees. I don't know if you noticed this, there in Psalm, there's quite a few Psalms right in a row, and I used to know the exact number, heading towards the end of the book of Psalms. And it says, the degrees, and I can't remember exactly how the pre-script goes in that. Let me turn. A song of degrees, that's how it's written. Starting at 120 and it goes on. When something is by degrees, it's incrementally increasing, okay? That's what it's speaking of. And so what this is, is from Psalm 120 to the end where it is done with that, it is kind of crescendoing, all right? It is coming to a crescendo in those things. And so read those Psalms in light of that, looking how one builds on another and on another and on another. And of course, looking for Jesus Christ in those Psalms and looking for those key words that we found and all of that. It's just very important. But I have found that by degrees, as you sing hymns, your carnality melts away. You can't sing spiritual songs and maintain a carnal mind if you just give yourself over to that spiritual mind, okay? You come in, as we talked about this morning, you come in into the house of God with carnal mind and you've got that bad attitude and, you know, we looked at all of those things here this morning. As you sing the hymns, and they are hymns that appeal not to the flesh whatsoever. There's nothing fleshly about them. There's nothing carnal about them. There's nothing that appeals entertainment-wise to your flesh. It's all just spiritual music. That is key to preparing your heart to receive from God. I've just found that by degrees as we sing, those things just kind of come to be. All right, well, let's preach tonight. Let's see, Terry Miller, will you, we ask the Lord to bless our time of preaching, please. Father, again, we thank you for all that you've done today. Bless us, Lord, now we ask you to come again. Fill our hearts and our lives, and Lord, may our hearts be receptive for what you have for us tonight. And our pastor behind the cross, By the way, I want to point out that one thing in Ephesians 4 verse 5, it says, one Lord, it's capital L, lowercase O-R-D, and from what I have found, Again, I have not done an extensive study on that, but so far I have not found a single place in the King James Bible where that's not Jesus, okay? And then one faith, and we know what that faith is, that faith that justifies us. It's not your faith. No, sir. No, that's the faith of Christ. That's a faith of Jesus, the faith of Him, as it says in Revelation. Oh, we were even looking at that today in the Sunday school class. Glory to God for that. But yeah, all right, we'll get on into this. Let's do a little recap. Go to Luke chapter 20. We're going to recap what we looked at this morning, hit the highlights, and then we're going to dive into what the Lord might have for us tonight. Luke chapter 20. Jesus is speaking with the Sadducees, and they come with this scenario of a man who has a wife, and then he dies, and his other six brothers have him, and by the time the last brother dies, there's still no seed raised up to that first brother, and so they pose this impossible scenario to Jesus Christ, seemingly as that final blow, that death knell to the idea of a resurrection, and they say, whose wife is she in the resurrection? Because all seven of them had her. And who is she? And Jesus answers in verse 34, But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither married nor are given in marriage, neither can they die anymore. Now in these other counts, I want you to realize and understand, you've probably seen this, he calls them out and he says you do err not knowing the scriptures. Not knowing that world to come, not knowing these things. You're not thinking spiritually on this thing. You're comparing carnal with carnal rather than spiritual with spiritual. But it continues, verse 36, neither can they die anymore, for they are equal unto the angels. And I love that because Jesus was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death. Okay, that he might be crowned with glory. And so in that Jesus was made flesh All right He was made into that man why for the suffering of death that he might die that he might be your burnt offering that he might be that Resurrection and that when he died I died when he was buried I was buried when he was made that burnt offering I was made that burnt offering when he was resurrected out I was resurrected out and so it is all completely done and all I have to do is believe it It's all, it's all finished. It's all accomplished. When he cried on the cross, it is finished. There was still much that was not yet finished. So what was finished? I mean, he had not even died yet, let alone had he resurrected. And I'm quite certain that we're justified by his resurrection. Okay. So what had been finished? Well, sin. Sin was finished. It's the only two places in your King James Bible where it says it is finished. It's the only two places. Let no man say, I'm tempted of God. For every man is tempted by his own lust and enticed. He's drawn away of his own lust and enticed. And when lust hath conceded, it bringeth forth sin. And when sin is finished, it bringeth forth death. And he cried, it is finished. So what was finished? Sin. It had accomplished its work. He was made to be sin for us who knew no sin. And we examined all of those things in that series where we went through the things that Jesus became, he became, he was made, all of those things. And so, they're on the sermon audio if you wanna go back and look at that. But, here in this, he says that after they die, they're equal to the angels. Why? Because death has no more power over them. Death has no more power over them. Why? Because they're dead. They've already died. But he's speaking of that resurrection to come. Look at this. It says, and they are the children of God being the children of the resurrection. Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush when he calls 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. He's not a God of the dead, but he's the God of the living. And in the other accounts, he clearly gives the reading, and we look there in Exodus chapter three, verses one through six, where the voice calls from that burning bush, I am the God of Isaac. And again, we looked at that as being that Jesus Christ trusted those scriptures well enough to be able to quote them and to absolutely blow apart the doctrine of the Sadducees with the tense of one verb. And if Jesus trusted them, why can't we? That's kind of where we went with those things. And then we looked at this idea out of Proverbs 30 verse 5 that every word of God is pure. Because every word of God is pure, that is speaking to every individual word. It doesn't just say all the words of God are pure. It doesn't just put a blanket statement as to, you know, the general thoughts and ideas that are contained in this book are pure. No, it is every word. And just as it is there in Hebrews 2.9 that he tasted death for every man. It isn't just that he died for all of mankind. No, he died your death. Thy death was died in Jesus Christ. Why? Because he tasted death for every man. He was made into every single individual man on that cross when he died. And he died a sinner's death. He died that thing as a sinner, as Philip Seale. Okay? It's Brian Moose. And as you look at these things, you begin seeing the immensity of the offering of Jesus Christ. And it overwhelms you sometimes. It just overwhelms you. You just can't, you can't hardly fathom everything that he endured. Just becoming me was enough. But continuing on, we looked at Psalm 12, verse seven, where it talks about every word of God is pure. Again, it calls that right out. Thou will keep them, O Lord. Thou will preserve them from this generation forever. And in Psalm 12, you see that wicked generation spoken of, those that would pervert the words of God, those that would twist everything around and mess everything up like that. And God promises that he would preserve his word from that generation, that that wicked generation that would twist and and mangle up his word to where it could not be found perfectly, that he was going to preserve those words from that generation forever. And that there is never ever going to be a wicked and perverse generation that is going to absolutely corrupt the words of God. In fact, we know that Peter says that we are being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. It is a seed that cannot be corrupted. It can't be corrupted. Not only isn't it not corrupt, it cannot be corrupted. It's impossible. Why? Because God promised that he would preserve it from that generation forever. Never gonna be a generation where they can snuff out the pure words of God. Now we have a very unique generation that we are living in and that God has given us the pure words 100% in one book. that they are all here contained in the volume of one book. It's very unique. It's not something that every generation has had. You look even before the King James Bible and the lineage of things there, and you find down through there, and that's one argument against that King James Bible is, well, what about the generations before the King James Bible? What did they do? There were things in there that weren't quite right. Yep, and God was merciful. God was merciful to those generations. There were men of God that did what they could with what light they were given, and God honored that, and he worked through that, and he used that. But there is a precept in the word of God wherein Paul says, in the time of this ignorance, God winked at, but now calleth all men everywhere to repent. There's a time when God will wink at ignorance. He's gonna overlook it. He's gonna wink at that ignorance, but now, There is not any reason whatsoever to not believe that this book is perfect. In this generation now, with what we understand of the history of it, what we understand of the English language as a whole as it has matured, and really now in these modern days it has degenerated greatly, this is written at the height of the spoken English language, absolute height of it. And it has only gotten worse from now, or from then, and it'll only get worse continuing on. But the Word of God is sure. So we looked at those things, and there are pure words again. We looked at 2 Timothy 3, 15 and 16, where it says that, from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation. It says all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable. And the very first thing he lists as being profitable for is doctrine. And so, we presented the concept that in this Bible, every single word that is in here is not only pure, but it is profitable for doctrine. Every word. Every word. I want you to remember how I closed out this morning with the concept that, and this was a question that you were posed and challenged with to answer for yourself. Who told you not to believe every word of the Bible? Who told you? Most of the time it was scholarship, those that have great scholarship to their name and many acronyms after their name, and doctor, whoever, and whatever else. And it's men of God that I believe, for the most part, are striving to do right, okay, with good intentions, but they are blinded by the wisdom of men. There is something very precious when someone who is ignorant in the things of this world finds the Word of God and then finds it perfect. And there's just a wonderment to it. You know, Jesus even spoke about becoming as a little child. You know what? Something about children is they don't know anything. They don't know their right from their left. And so they have a lot less they have to unlearn. Okay? I don't have a degree. I have no acronyms after my name. The only one I have before my name is Mr. Okay? And that's it. I had the ability and the capability and the option to get my doctorate, and the Lord just told me that that wasn't going to be good for me. Okay? And I know for a fact if I were to get my doctorate, God would remove his hand of blessing from me. I just know it. And so that's just something I never will. Am I going to look down upon those who have them? Not at all, ever. No, good night. How foolish that would be. What I'm trying to tell you is you don't need anything but this Bible. You need this Bible and the Holy Ghost and that's it. You have an unction from the Holy One and you know all things. Jesus Christ himself is that Holy One. You find that throughout the scriptures. Was it 48 times? 47 verses, 48 times in your King James Bible is the phrase capital H, capital O, Holy One. There's a few others where it's still talking about the same One. It's the One, the just One, and like that. Everywhere you find that, it is Jesus Christ. So what is that unction? Well, it's that anointing on the inward parts. The only place in your King James Bible you find that word unction is there in 1 John 2. And it's that anointing on the inward parts. And we know that because you go into verse 27 and it says, in the same anointing which you've received of him, abideth in you. It's the only anointing in the entirety of the word of God that is on the inward parts. Every other anointing is on the outside. It's on the outside. And so this anointing that abideth in you, teacheth you all things, and ye need not that any man teach you. That's what your Bible tells you. How much do you believe your Bible? And so with that, there's not a bit of doctrine in this Bible that you can't discern with the help of the Holy Ghost. that unction on the inward parts. I remember Trent Filer saying one time that he and Brittany were talking, and there was some things that they wanted to look into, but she was a little leery, and she just, I can't remember exactly what the topic was. It might have been even in Ezekiel or something. And Trent, and there was some great wisdom in these words. He says, there's not a bit of that Bible that we need to be afraid of. Not a bit of it. There's absolutely nothing in that Bible that you need to be afraid of to go study out. I won't be like the Catholic priest and say that you can't understand this thing. I won't be like the independent Baptist and say, hey, you need a good set of commentaries for you to understand this thing. I'm one of the very rare pastors that will tell you, you can trust every single word in your Bible and God will teach you it. Okay? And that's just something I believe. It's something I know from experience. I am standing in shoes that have been taught by God. Okay? That's how I can say that with authority. I know it because he's done it. But it requires you to believe every word. Every word exactly as it's written. And you just get in there and you just study it with that mind and just see what God shows you. Just see what God shows you. All right? Think about those priests that were gonna cross Jordan. All right? How far in did they go before those waters stood up like a heap? All the way up to their knees. They carried that ark, they went before the nation of Israel, they waded in, and they got up until their knees, until the water flowed down, and there it was, piling up like a heap. And it was flooding at that time. Okay? It was a lot of water. Down in South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, they've gotten a lot of water recently. It was flooding, but yet they walked out into those flooding waters and it went dry. But they had to wait in a little bit first. Why don't you just go ahead, grab this Bible, lift it up high and walk into that water a bit. Get in up to your knees where it's just about ready to sweep you away and see what God shows you. Just try that. Just try it and see. And so we carried on with that, we looked at those things. We looked at the concept that either all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, or none of it is. It's either all or nothing. You don't pick and choose, this word would better be interpreted this way, or this word is, a better word for that would be, and so we looked at Job 32, wait, and there's a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. That's the only two places in the scriptures, first, 2 Timothy 3, 16, and Job 32, That's the only two places where the word inspiration is used and it is a breathing in it's not an exhaling. It's an inspiring Okay, so God is in you of a truth breathing in understanding if you ever gain any understanding from God whatsoever the biblical term Inspiration applies to you. He has inspired it in you. All right. Now you didn't just receive apostolic authority Not at all But what you have is something just as good. You've got the Holy Ghost teaching you Hallelujah for that And so, just have some confidence in God. Just walk into this thing. Then we looked at the importance of the words of Jesus Christ, that they are the very words that are going to judge you someday. At that last day, this Bible is going to be opened up, because it says the books are going to be opened. I believe he's going to open up all 66 books of this King James Bible, and he's going to go through every precept. Every precept every bit of preaching I sat under that was Holy Ghost fired every every precept that he showed me everything He taught me and he is going to weigh me in the balance He's gonna take my spirit and he is going to weigh it and I will be found wanting in things and I will suffer loss I know it. I know it. It's a terrifying thing that idea But I know my God And just as David, when he had sinned in numbering the people, he threw himself on the mercy of God. Do you know why he did that? Because he had found mercy there before. And he knew, though it was going to hurt, it was much better to fall into the hands of the living God than to fall into the hands of men. Okay, just throw yourself on the hands of the living God and see what he does. And really, that's where we left off. I was gonna take us to John chapter five and show, you know what, let's go there, let's go to John chapter five. This is where we'll pick up tonight. We're gonna continue on in these things. John chapter five, starting verse 39. Jesus is again speaking with these scribes, the Pharisees, these men, these masters of the law. John chapter five, verse 39, he says, search the scriptures. For in them ye think ye have eternal life. Now out of the words of Jesus Christ himself, you can think you have eternal life and not have it. And you better let God sort that thing out. He that hath the Son hath life, he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. That's how cut and dry it is. Now, anybody who is seeking, and I've had a few come to me and say, you know, the Lord's shown me that I don't have salvation, and glory to God for that. I get just as excited about that as somebody coming to me and telling me that they've been born of God. You know why? Because they've been awakened. They're no longer slumbering. They've been awakened. And do you know where the first place is? I normally will direct them. There's been some odd cases where I don't do this, but 1 John. Because 1 John is such a clear-cut book. It shows you this is what it looks like when somebody's born of God, this is what it looks like when somebody is not born of God. And it'll settle that thing in your heart. Whether you're saved or not, it'll settle that thing. If you're honest with yourself, you're honest with God. Okay? And it very clearly tells you if you don't believe this book, if you don't believe the record that God gave of his son, you're calling God a liar. And so that record is somewhere. Every word of God being pure is somewhere. And tonight I'll tell you, I believe it's in this King James Bible. I absolutely believe it, 100%. I can't unbelieve that. That's something that God has sealed in my heart and I can't unsee it. I just can't. And so he continues on though. And then we think you have eternal life and they are they which testify of me. And there it is again. He's speaking those same words that he spoke in Psalm 40 verse seven. Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me. They are they which testify of me. You look at that testimony of Jesus Christ in Revelation 19.10, and that is that spirit of prophecy, that same spirit of prophecy spoken of in 1 Peter 1.11, wherein those prophets, speaking of what manner of time, when the spirit of Christ was in them, where it spoke through them and prophesied of the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow. Jesus says in Luke 24, and I believe it's there in, oh, let's see, maybe even Matthew as well, where he's going into this thing and he expounds to his disciples, this is especially in Luke chapter 24, where he shows them in the law and the prophets and in the Psalms all things concerning him. And if he is in the volume of the book, then you had better be looking for him in every single line, or else Jesus is a liar. Now, how do you deal with that? You just believe what's written and connect those words. Let the word of God, what it says here, connect with what it says over there. Let it do that. It's interesting. If you have, like, I have some center reference cross-references in this, okay? These are a match of what the translators put in the side margins when they translated this thing, okay? I'm not elevating that over anything else. It's just, that's just the fact of the matter. And what you're gonna find is those cross-references don't match the Greek and Hebrew. Those cross-references match the English that's in the text. You'll find the same wording in the English, you'll find the same words in the English in both places, and you'll find, oh, that's how they got that cross-reference. Just try that for a bit and see what the Lord does. Okay, we've done that many times, all right? We've taken a word and we've studied it throughout the Bible. I have interpretation, interpretations, that aspect, 48 times, and we're not gonna look at all 48 tonight. The Lord, if he allows me to get there, we're gonna look at a few places dealing with interpretation and the importance of it. But this is just what God has given us for tonight. But these are they which testify of me. Verse 40, and you will not come to me that you might have life. And it's in your will not to come to him that you might have life. And that right there throws out the idea of Calvinism. That man has no free will and that he absolutely must come to God if God calls him. Not at all. Jesus went into those towns and he couldn't do many mighty works because of their unbelief. Your belief is connected 100% to your will. You choose to believe something. And God gives you the tools in order to believe it. To have belief that comes from God, he gives you everything that you need. Faith and belief are two different things. Faith and trust are two different things. Study that out for a little while. Just let that rattle around in your brain for a bit, okay? You'll find a lot of clarity in these things. Faith is something that is supernatural. You have your own faith, but it certainly, you might be able to speak to a mountain and have it cast into the sea or a sycamine tree and have it cast into the sea, but you can't save your soul with that faith, you can't. That would be a work. How much are you gonna work up so that you would be able to be born of God? How much faith? How much faith does it take to work up? Well, according to the word of God, it's not of works, lest any man should boast. And so that throws that right out of the window. So it must be the faith of Christ. And I wanna tell you something. I knew about the faith of Christ for two years before I understood what it was. Psalm 1610 is the faith of Christ. And just let that settle in. That's what the faith of Christ is. It's that faith that justifies, okay? Now, let's carry on. Verse 41, I receive not honor from men, but I know you that ye have not the love of God in you. I am come in my Father's name and you receive me not. If another man shall come in his own name, him you will receive. How can you believe? How can you believe which receive honor one from one of another? How? Jesus is telling you it is impossible for you to believe Him if you're receiving honor from someone else. Now how would that play out in today's life? Now we could look at this thing and not humbling yourself and coming forward and meeting with the Lord at the altar. You could do that. I've seen evangelists use that tool to fill an altar because that's like the grading on his paycheck. All right, I've seen that. I've seen that here. I've done it myself, okay? It's not pointing fingers anywhere else but me, all right? But who do you go to? When God shows you, you're lost. Are you going to receive honor from God or do you go to your Sunday school teacher? You go to your pastor. Do you go to your neighbor, your father, your grandmother, your wife, your husband? When God shows you that you don't have salvation and those doubts begin really just settling in and you realize, I do not have what this Bible calls salvation. Who do you go to to receive honor from? If you receive honor one from another and not that which honor, which cometh from God only. You want the one that you go to to be the only one that can tell those angels to not throw you into the lake of fire. That's the one you go to. And I'm here to tell you, absolutely, there is a full assurance of faith that comes with salvation. There is a salvation that does not doubt. That's Bible salvation. That's being truly born again from above. That's not some quick prayer, that's not some prayer that you prayed out of the depths of your hopelessness, that's not some prayer you prayed because you wanted to go to heaven and not hell. That's not it at all. That you've broken before a holy God over your wretchedness and what you've done violating the law of God and offending a holy God. And you are helpless and hopeless before him and Jesus Christ is your only hope. That's it. It really is that simple. It really is that simple. But we have made it so difficult today by trying to make it easy. And we've mixed a little humanism in with it, all right? So regardless of all that, we keep going. Where were we at? Verse 43. No, verse 44. How can you believe which receive honor one of another and seek not the honor that cometh from God only? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom you trust. And it's interesting that he would tell them, don't think that I'm going to accuse you to the Father. Because that's something that rises up in our hearts, and we blame Jesus for it. He's just up there accusing us of the Father. No, no, it's not Jesus, it's the law. That's what's accusing you to the Father. Do you know why? Because an advocate doesn't accuse. Boy, when God opened my eyes to that, I just about shouted. It's so good. He's my advocate, he's my intercessor. He is that spirit of intercession in Romans chapter eight. Hallelujah. He's the one that is groaning. He's interceding with groanings that can't even be uttered. And I have doctrinally from the law understanding as to why that is. And that's coming, not yet. I'm gonna be preaching that, but not yet. Why doctrinally from the book of Leviticus, why he can't utter, okay? And just, if you're so inclined, just start studying through and see if you can figure that out. As one of the accuseth you, even Moses, in whom you trust. Why? Because they thought they had salvation in those scriptures. They thought they had it. Because they were doing everything right. And Jesus himself said, had I not come, they would not have had sin. Had I not come, they would not have had sin. They were doing everything that was required of them. But once Jesus entered the room, he brought that sword, The law entered in, sin revived, and Paul said, I died. He said, I did it all, blameless. I was blameless before that law, until the law entered into my heart and said, thou shalt not covet. And it's those pricks, it was getting hard for him to kick against. You just got to get to the point where you no longer kick against the pricks. Okay, yield, yield to those pricks. And then he continues on and he says, for had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? All right, and so those words that he wrote, where are they? It's in the volume of this book. Genesis to Revelation, Jesus speaks through the whole thing. It's him. If it's not him speaking, actually speaking is the prophet speaking of him, but it's all him. It's all about Him. It's all about Him and His faith, okay? If you have eyes to see and ears to hear. That's important. God has to give you those things. What is it? Psalm 69, 10, maybe. I might be off a little bit on that. But He says, the humble shall see this and be glad. And your heart shall live that seek God. The humble shall see. Why? Because God resisteth the proud and giveth grace unto the humble. It's the only thing I have against Bill Gaither in that song. There's not a single place in the word of God where you will find pride is a good thing, even in your children. It cometh before the fall. A haughty spirit before destruction. God has to hide pride from you in order to see you don't even believe in Moses. Okay? And he's the one accusing you. All right, let's carry on with this. Go to Psalm 19. So again, we're looking at the words of Jesus Christ. Those are those words that are gonna judge you. Those are those words that he has promised to preserve from the generation that would corrupt them, that they are pure words, that every word of God is pure, just as he died for every man, he tasted death for every man. It's not just a lump sum of all mankind that he became, you know, the sin of mankind. No, he became your sin. He was made into you on that cross. You died there on that cross, okay? And again, doctrinally, we could look at those things. I talked with the, what you had said about Brother Vernon preaching the other day about the loins of Jesus and Abraham. I'm telling you, I talked about that with the deacons at our meeting, too, and that's good, and I wanna preach that sometime, but again, that's not for tonight. Oh, Psalm 19. Look at verse seven. It says, the law of the Lord is perfect. Converting the soul and right there The majority of our hearts tonight. We'll try to rise up against that Your carnal heart your wicked deceitful heart is gonna try to rise up against that and say it's not a hundred percent perfect You're not gonna be able to find anybody on the streets today that has their heart prepared to agree with you that The law is perfect They're gonna rise up against it. We could go into any place in the law of God and Jesus remember Jesus said that the Psalms are the law as well and Okay, he quotes the Psalms and he says, it's not written in your law. Okay, and he quotes the Psalms. And so looking at the word of God as being the law of God, it's that schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, our hearts rise up against that law. And that just goes to show you where you don't agree with him. Every conversation Jesus Christ had was specifically used to show somebody what they didn't agree with God with. that their heart rose up against him in something. He did it with the Sadducees. God said there was a resurrection. They didn't agree with that. He called them out on it. Nicodemus, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of God. Except a man be born again, he shall not see the kingdom of God. Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. That rose up against Nicodemus, but Nicodemus got it, because by the end of John, you see him with Jason of Arimathea begging for the body of Jesus. I love it. You know, I even see, if you, if you, Brother Moose, next time you're reading through John, look for these things, okay? Because you'll find the conversations that Jesus has with the Pharisees and the conversations the Pharisees have with themselves, I can almost hear the voice of Nicodemus in there from time to time, okay? Be looking for that. It's good stuff. All right. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. So why don't we preach the law of God anymore? Because honestly, the majority of the preachers that will refrain from preaching the law have never been converted by it. They're lost. Billy Sunday said, hell is gonna be so full of Baptist preachers that their feet are gonna stick out the windows. Billy Sunday, okay, years and years and years and years and years ago. How much worse is it today? Who are the first group of people that are gonna cry, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in thy name? Preachers, church workers, we did many mighty works. They're the first ones to spout off and call, no, no, no, Lord, Lord, we did these things. I never knew you. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. And you find that testimony of the Lord throughout the word of God. Revelation 19.10. You know what? You don't have to turn there. I'm gonna turn there. If you wanna turn there, you can. Revelation 19.10 is twice now I've quoted it. It's time to look at it. And I fell at his feet to worship him. This is the angel that's speaking to John. And he said unto him, or unto me, see that thou do it not. I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Okay, that's the testimony of Jesus. It is that spirit of prophecy spoken of there in 1 Peter 111. That's how you find it. It is that spirit of holiness. Okay, lowercase s, lowercase h. It's a spirit of holiness. It is the identifying mark of the prophecies of Jesus Christ throughout. When you find that holiness, And it's connected with spirit. It is Jesus Christ. Okay. That's how you see him. It is that spirit of holiness. That's how you can taste him in the volume of the book. That's how it's that, that, that little bit of honey, that's that sweetness to you. And you say, Hey, there's something to that. Okay. One thing I love about honey is it's sticky. Pooh Bear loved that too. Okay. He went back to it. He went back to it. He went back to it. Okay. When you get a taste of the word of God and how he can just, just shed light in that dark corner of your heart. Oh my goodness. Oh, it's so good. You just want to be in it. You want to be where it's being preached. You drive four and a half hours to hear it. All right. Hallelujah. Glory to God. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. But yet we don't preach the commandments of the Lord because they're offensive. We don't want to turn anybody away. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Now, where are they? They're in the volume of the book. That's where you find them. That's how you know all of these things. It's this book that's gonna convert you. Not a handful of verses tacked at the end of a tract. That's not it. I don't have a problem handing out tracts, not one whatsoever. I don't have a problem with it, as long as you've been having a conversation with a fellow about what you've got in that tract. Just consider those things. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover, by them, by what? By the Lord's judgments, By the fear of the Lord, by the commandment, by the statutes, by his testimony, by the law. Moreover, by them is thy servant warned, and in keeping of them there is great reward. Okay? But do you believe that? Or are you gonna look at that verse and say, a better word for that would be? What kind of authority are you to change the words of God? What kind of authority is that one that told you that you can change the word of God? Where did they get that authority from? Who was the first one? I said it this morning. Who was the first one to say, yeah, God said? Questioning the word of God. You know, until 1881, there really wasn't much against the King James Bible other than, you know, the hatred in the heart of man against the word of God. But there was just an understanding that the King James Bible was the word of God. It was just the word of God. That's just how it was. Now, there were other versions out there. There were, but everybody looked at that one and understood, hey, that's the word of God, okay? Until doubt crept in, 1881, higher criticism, wisdom of man, and it just, it's been downhill from there. You look at the fall of England, and it really happened right about that time. You look at the fall of America, and it happened about 1901. It's only gotten worse from there. Just consider these things. You look at the patterns of history in mankind, and you see when they're walking in the word of God, and they believe the word of God, and they're keeping the word of God, and they're striving to live according to the word of God, God blesses those countries and nations. Look at England. It was just a serf, just piddly little country that had no unity whatsoever until about the early 1600s. And from that point until the 1700s and going on into the 1800s, it was a nation, an empire, in fact, upon which the sun never set around the globe entirely until they turned their back on God. And slowly it got pushed back and pushed back and pushed back. I saw a thing the other day, and this is just interesting, this has no scriptural understanding or anything to it, but there was like 147 nations every year that celebrate their independence from England. It's one about every two days. Okay? It's just something interesting to think about. But that's a nation that God blessed. Why? Because they took this book and they held it high. Because that's what God does. And so, I think we ought to do the same. I'll go to Psalm 119. Psalm 119. Interestingly enough, Psalm 119 is the only psalm that comes between Psalm 118 and Psalm 120. Did I say 18? Psalm 118. Psalm 119, look at verse 97. We're gonna start in verse 97. Now, I would like to point out my point of view on Psalm 119 is that this is the voice of Jesus Christ throughout. If you've never considered that, consider it. Oh, how I love thy law. It is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments has made me wiser than mine enemies for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients because I keep thy precepts. Now this is something that is lost in fundamentalism today. Absolutely lost. The concept that you could know something that Bob Jones Senior didn't. I've never heard this before. Why are you the only preacher I've ever heard this from? Well, I don't know, it's in the Bible. Why has no other preacher ever preached this before out of the Bible? It's right there, it's what it says, literally what it says. And that type of concept, all right? But this is a precept that you need to grab hold of in correlation with 1 John 2, 20 and verse 27, okay? And that God can teach you and that your teachers and the ancients are there as stepladders so that you can see farther. I've told you this before, you understand this. And I didn't originate this statement, but I've grabbed hold of it as a ministry mindset of my own self in that my whole ministry consists of being a stepladder so that you can see farther than I do. I want to equip you to be able to see farther than I do. I'm not even teaching you how to fish. I'm leading you to the one that can teach you how to fish. That's all I'm doing. Those of you who are lost, I am here to point you into the way and to keep you in the way as Jesus draws you in that way. Because he said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. I can't lead you to Christ. I can't. But I can show you where you can find him. Keep that in mind. It's a different mindset. It's a completely different mindset than what we've been taught and preached and everything right along. but in it is salvation wrought by God. And it's a terrifying thing for a preacher. I want you to understand that. It's a terrifying thing for a young man or a young woman to come up to you and say, God has shown me that I'm lost. What do I do? But you know, I found great comfort in saying, seek Jesus. It's found in him. It is him. and they just let the Lord do his work. Okay? And honestly, that's all your job is, as a soul winner. He that winneth souls is wise. By the way, that's Jesus. Okay? It's not you. So, where were we at? I understand more than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. I have not departed from thy judgments, for thou hast taught me. Thou hast taught me. Now, I don't have written in here 1 John 2, 27, but I'm gonna write it in after we're done, because that is a perfect cross-reference. Who taught the Lord? That's who taught. That's who teaches you. I'm not your teacher. It's God. God is the one that teaches you. How sweet are thy words unto my taste, yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. We read that in Psalm 119. Through thy precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way. Now what's interesting, what did we hear about in Job 32 verse 8? There's a spirit in man. Okay, what is the purpose of that spirit? It's to search all the inward parts of the belly. Okay, it's the part of you that is gonna search your inward parts of your spirit. There's a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. How does inspiration give you understanding? Through the precepts of the Word of God. And that's why it must be precept upon precept. Precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little. And again, why? That you might be taken and snared and fall backward. So that you would turn from your froward way and look God square in the face. You're froward, you're looking away from God. And he says, turn ye at my reproof. They would not turn, okay? We'll continue on. Let's see, interpretation. I wanna look at just a couple of things here, and then I think we're gonna be done for tonight. Go to Genesis chapter 40. Genesis chapter 40. Really, this Bible was not translated. It was interpreted. Interpretation is much more important than translation, because you can translate a Greek or a Hebrew word a number of ways, all right? We've proven that, we've seen that. There are many Hebrew words and many Greek words that are the same Greek and Hebrew word, but they're translated differently in the Bible, in the King James Bible, judging on the context of the thing. So really, rather than translation, we ought to be interested and concerned with interpretation. Okay, what is interpretation? A man we all know, I won't use the name just because it's being recorded, but worked for the U.S. military, a native of a country overseas, and he was an interpreter for the U.S. military, okay? Worked very closely with a family member of one of the families in our church as a soldier. And he was there knowing and understanding the language of the people that were there and knowing the language and understanding the language of the people that were there that hadn't been there before, that didn't know the language of that people. And he was there as their go-between. Okay? That soldier might tell that interpreter, hey, you know, tell those people and you might use whatever colorful language he might use to come out of that house, you know, with their hands up so that, you know, we don't shoot them or whatever it might be. You know, build the scenario in your mind. Okay? Now there's some things that those people in that house might not understand a word for word translation. And there's some things that could be taken differently. Okay? Judging on where you live. Is it soda or is it pop? Or is it soda pop or is it soft drink? Sadly, soda has just started to spread over the entire nation. It's almost like a plague. It's just spread through the whole nation. Back in the 50s, it was popped predominantly in the north with a few pockets of soda in the south. And you see soda just spreading. It's just something I've noted at any rate. But that interpreter would take what the soldiers said and say it in such a way that the people would understand it with the language they spoke in their heart. That's what interpretation is, that's why it's important. You can translate a word many different ways, but understanding the right interpretation is vitally important. I hold that we have the correct interpretation of every Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic word, from the old languages into English, the proper interpretation of those words, okay? Why? Because I believe God has had his hand in this Bible. I believe he had his hand in doing this. I'm not a deist, not in theology and not in my view of the Bible. I don't believe that a deist is one that believes, Benjamin Franklin was a deist. He believed that there was a higher power and he created everything, but he doesn't intermingle with the affairs of men. He just kind of made it and then stepped back and said, well, we'll see how this goes, okay? I'm not that. I don't believe that in my theology about God, and I don't believe that in the theology of the Word of God. I don't believe that he gave it by inspiration at one point and then just took his hands off it and said, well, we'll see what man does with it. Hopefully they can get it right as they go. I believe God had his hand in the translation of it. I believe it is, every word of God is pure. Silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times. I believe that you see those seven major English translations going down through the ages culminating in that seventh one of the King James Bible and then after that first printing by Robert Barker that had over 5,000 printing errors because of sloppy work and primitive printing technology You see seven major purifications leading up to about the early 1920s where there was that final purification of that thing again and from 1920s until 1985 Cambridge was printing the absolute pure words of God Okay? I fully believe that. There's a pamphlet of the history of all that in the back if you want one. I just believe that God cares enough about His words that He's going to give them to you perfect. I believe it did that. Now, it's scary to understand and even consider and think that God would give us all of His words perfectly from 6,000 years ago when He first spoke them. until today, and we could know exactly what they are. Do you know why that's scary for some? Because that means that there's actually a God. And it's not just religion. It's scary. You gotta understand that. Does that scare you? Does that frighten you? There's something here I think it does. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. We're in Genesis 40. Let's look at this. Speaking of interpretation, interpretation being that taking of the word and sifting through all the definitions of how you could translate that word and finding the one that perfectly matches not only what was spoken, but the connotation in which it was spoken, how it's supposed to be taken, and everything. I believe what we have in our hands in this King James Bible, the pure Cambridge text of the King James Bible, are the Holy Ghost's interpretation of the words of God in English. That's what I believe. I believe it 100%. It's proven itself to me too many times for me to change my mind on that. So, where do interpretations come from? What saith the scripture? Genesis chapter 40, look at verse eight. They said unto him, we have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, do not interpretations belong to God? Do you ever consider that? Interpretations belong to God. Not man, not scholarship, and not a PhD or a THD or whatever else D you want to put at the end of your name. That's not where the power and the authority rests. It rests with God, in the word of God. If there was any correct interpretations throughout this book, it's because God gave it. And why would he give some and not others when he said all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine? We're just reasoning tonight. Go to Daniel chapter two. It's interesting as to why we have interpretations. Daniel chapter two. What is the purpose of interpretations? It's good that we have them, it's good that now we know interpretations belong to God, okay? But why? Well, Daniel 2 in verse 30, I gotta get there myself. It says, but as for me, this secret was not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart. That's why we have interpretation instead of translation. Many Bibles today, many, many Bibles that are a translation of the original scriptures. Many that are translated with formal equivalency, just as what this was translated with. There's only one interpretation. And the purpose is that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart. Why? Because only God knows the thoughts of your heart. And he has given this Bible by interpretation that you might know the thoughts of your heart. That's why this is here. Okay? Now, I wanna look at just a couple places. Go to John chapter one. There was quite a few places, let's see here, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, oh, nine, 10, 11, 12. 12 different places the word interpretation is used in the New Testament dealing with the matter of taking from one language and putting it into English. Okay? We're gonna look at John chapter one though. Look at verse 41. He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messiah, which is, being interpreted, the Christ." Okay? So you can take that word, Messiah, and you can actually translate it differently. You can translate it into something completely different that does not mean the Christ. But by interpretation, it means the Christ. Look at verse 42, and he brought him to Jesus, and when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon, the son of Jonah, thou shalt be called Cephas, which by interpretation, a stone. Okay, again, God gives us the actual interpretation of what that is supposed to mean. Cephas could be translated many different ways, but by interpretation, it is a stone. What I'm doing is showing you right in the text of the King James Bible, what I'm saying, proof of what I'm saying, that God gave you the right interpretation of those words. And he cared enough for you to believe it, that he even gave you these phrases, okay? Go to John chapter nine, verse seven. John chapter nine verse seven, he said unto him, go wash in the pool of Siloam, which is by interpretation, sent. That's what Siloam means. It's one definition of it, it's one translation of the word Siloam, but by interpretation it means sent here, okay? Go to Acts chapter four. As I say, there's many places we could go. Acts chapter 4, and I think we want verse 36. Ah, yes. Naming off all these men, it says, and Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, which is being interpreted the son of consolation, a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus. Okay, again, by interpretation. We know that Emmanuel, which is being interpreted God with us. Again, you could go up to Jew and you could say, oh, Emmanuel, the Hebrew word Emmanuel means God with us, so it's speaking of Jesus Christ in the flesh, and they will laugh at you, because it can also mean the son of the gods is with us, or the gods are with us, or it can speak to many different aspects of a false idol being with you as well, Emmanuel. It's that deity, whether it's of God or whether it's of the devils, but it is with you, okay? And I'm not attributing deity to the devils, all right? Don't misinterpret that. Okay? But by interpretation, it means God with us. That's how God interpreted that thing. Why? So that we could see that Jesus Christ is God. Okay? He gave you every single word in this by interpretation. You can't interpret it better. You can't go to the old language, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, you can't go to those and find a better translation or a deeper meaning of it. This is as deep as it gets. and it's deeper than you can handle, okay? Honestly, what you'd be better off doing is figuring out what the word, okay, let's just say, I don't know, indignation. All right, my eyes just fell on the word indignation. What did indignation mean in the year 1611? What did it mean then? figure out how it was used in the year 1611, because those men had perfect understanding of the Greek and the Hebrew, and perfect understanding of English, in tense, in case, and all that grammatically goes into that thing, and they were led by the Holy Ghost in the interpretation of it, decided that Greek word there in Acts chapter 17, or Acts chapter five, verse 17, that last word there, indignation, whatever Greek word that was, they said, that word needs to be indignation. And between the 47 of them, by the time that the whole thing was done, they universally and unanimously agreed that word, from Greek to English, needs to be indignation, because of what it means. That's how you started your Bible. That's why God gave it to you in a language your heart speaks, so that you can know it. All right, and so, we're gonna look at one other place, and I think we're gonna be done. 2 Peter, chapter one. Yes, 2 Peter 1. Look at verse 20. How does this apply to the individual words in your King James Bible? There is a concept here, this is a precept in the word of God, that you must apply everywhere, and it cancels out your ability to say, or Jim Shetler's ability to say in Job 32, eight, oh, that word inspiration would be a better word for that would be illumination, okay? Cancels out your ability to do that. Knowing this first, 2 Peter 1, verse 20, knowing this first, then no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. It's not of any private interpretation. What God has done is publicly interpreted every word of God from the original languages into English for you. And it's right here in this book. You can't reinterpret this at all. If you do, and even take it right back into its original Greek and try to say, hey, this word should be, or the original Hebrew and say this word should be, that is private interpretation and you're going against the laws of scripture. And so what that means is what this Bible says is exactly what God says. What this Bible says is exactly what God means. And all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine. And so every word in here is profitable for doctrine. Now, look at every word you disagree with and that you want to retranslate and you want to take back in the original language and whatever it is you want to do with it. Apply the concept, I can't privately interpret that, so I'm gonna let God interpret that into what he wrote it in. Believe your Bible and see what he teaches you. What doctrine does he show you? Okay, and that's it, that's, we're done. Theron, you can come on up.