All right, so basically what I wanted to do this morning, the Lord laid on my heart that you folks are always giving, you're always pouring into others, you're always doing those things, and you might not as much get the opportunity to just sit and receive. And so the things that I'm going to go through this morning, it very well may not be new to you, it may not be you know, anything that's, oh, wow, that's amazing. But hopefully it'll be edifying to you. That's my goal. I have, the Lord's allowed me to put together some trifold pamphlets of various topics. And the first one that I want to go through today is this one that I've called King James Bible Helps. And you guys can all take one and pass them around. And these are things that have been a help to me in being able to understand the Word of God. Being able to understand the purpose for all the things. It's been a blessing and a help to others. Brother Jim Braceland has incorporated that in with his deaf ministry. He adjusted some things because the deaf think very literally. They don't understand any kind of examples or that type of thing. It's very literal. It has to be that way. And so he's reworded some things in it so that it would make more sense to them. But he's incorporated that in his ministry. Brother Dale Morey, with Liberty Behind Bars, He has some men in prison that are going to be life in prison, but they've been born of God, and they're never getting out, but their lives are completely changed. And they are now his men on the inside, doing the work of the ministry as missionaries behind the bars. And he's incorporated some of these things in, he sends these pamphlets in with all the Bibles and information that goes into his prisoners. the men and women who are incarcerated, and those who are working towards their doctorates. They, through Andersonville Theological Seminary, can give a doctorate to these men once they complete these things, and he's incorporated some of our material in those doctorate things. All that to say, I hope it's a blessing to you this morning. We had some people that have begun coming and came not really understanding the differences in Bible versions. Our Thursday night Bible study is where this is really shown out the most. And as we've incorporated these principles and shown them, Everything is purposeful in this book. It's not there just because that's how they used to talk back in the day. Nobody spoke like this. Shakespeare didn't speak like this. You even read the letter from the translators to the reader, and it reads completely different. Now their eloquence was on a level so much higher than ours today, okay? But the linguistics of the text itself are just completely different, okay? Now this is a unique opportunity that I have here with you today because you deal with people that don't speak English for their first language. But where this may help you, it may be of a help if there's even just one thing that you can glean out of this, it may help you in a little better understanding. So as you're ministering with those Bibles in the other languages, in Portuguese or Spanish, Romanian, you know, Ukraine, or whatever it may be, be able to have a more solid foundation. Whereas, I understand the Romanian Bible, they don't have a great translation. There are some things that are just not good. And so having a sound enough foundation in the King James Bible to be able to instruct around those things and gird up those places where someone's barn might start leaning. Okay, around here, that's a good word picture because there's a lot of old farms and the barns have begun leaning. And you'll see people with telephone poles propping up the side of the barn, you know. You'd be able to prop up that side, okay, so it doesn't collapse and fall and they lose all that. And so we're gonna begin just going through some of these things here this morning. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to rearrange this. You're going to find I am not very organized, and we're just going to have to deal with it. Amen. All right. We'll just start right out. I would like you to turn to a couple passages to begin. Let's go to 1 John 5. I wanna lay a foundation of my mindset of where I'm coming with these types of things, and we'll just go from there. 1 John 5, looking at verse 10, it says, he that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not God hath made him a liar because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. Okay, so what this verse tells us here doctrinally, and I wanna say one thing, I'm a doctrinal preacher. I very rarely will spiritualize a verse. I will when it's prudent, but I don't spiritualize passages. What I do is I look at what the verse is actually telling us and what the wording actually says, and then let that, okay, what is this telling me about God? What is this telling me about His Word? What is this actually telling me about sin, about man, about whatever topic it's speaking of? And so doctrinally, we're looking at 1 John 5.10, and there's other things involved in this, but specifically I want to talk about that record. A record is a written account. It's something that has been recorded, okay? And so God has given a record. All right, he has given a record of his son. And it says very clearly that he that believeth not the record that God gave of his son is calling him a liar, it's made him a liar. And so you're calling God a liar if you don't believe the record. All right, so if God holds it in such a high regard that we don't call him a liar, which we ought not to, where is that record that we might believe it? Okay, let's go over to Psalm 40, verse seven. The 40th Psalm. We're just gonna lay some foundation and then we'll get into the actual material of the study for today. Psalm 40 in verse seven. It says, then said I, lo, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me. Now in Hebrews 10.7, right, Hebrews tells us that that's speaking of Jesus Christ, because it says, when he cometh into the world, he saith. Lo, I come in the volume of the book, all right? And then it says, but a body thou has prepared for me. I'm sacrificing offerings, thou desires not, but a body thou has prepared for me. And that body that was prepared for Jesus Christ is the body of Jesus Christ. That body wherein dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead, bodily. And so that is that body spoken of. So Psalm 40 is speaking of Jesus Christ. Psalm 40 is messianic in that aspect. And he says, lo, I come in the volume of the book. It is written of me. the volume of the book. That's length, that's breadth, that's height. And then there's a fourth dimension spoken of in the New Testament where he says that we may know the length and the breadth and the height and the depth of it. So not only the height, but from this point down, the depth. And that's volume. But when you look at it, it is a volume of one book. This is a library in one volume. And in the volume of the book it is written of me. You're going to find Jesus Christ from Genesis to Revelation because this is the written record of the Son of God. And so having this understanding, let's go to Psalm chapter 12. 12th Psalm, and we're going to look at verses 6 and 7. And these are probably very familiar passages to you. And again, I do enjoy preaching and teaching to those who have a good foundation, because there's a lot less Shoring up of things that you have to do and so we're able to kind of skim the top of these things and and understand the meat Psalm 12 look at verse 6 the words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in the furnace of earth purified seven times Thou shalt keep them. Oh Lord thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever And those pure words, it speaks of them being pure words, the words of God are pure words. Proverbs 30 verse 5 says, every word of God is pure. So what we have, we have a record that was written of Jesus Christ. We have the volume of the book, it's written of Jesus Christ. We have that every word, every individual word of God is pure. It is a pure word. These things are pure, they're holy, they're without contamination. Okay, without corruption, as Peter puts it. And so go to Psalm 138 now, examining the Psalms. And you know, I found a couple of places in the New Testament where the Psalms are referred to as being the law. And I love that because Paul says the law is our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ. All right, he tells Timothy, you know, that from a child that has known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation. What did he have? He had the law and the prophets and the Psalms. That's what he had. Those were those scriptures that he had that were able to make him wise unto salvation. But Psalm 138, here I'm talking, I gotta turn to it. Psalm 138, and look at verse two. It says this, I will worship toward thy holy temple and praise thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth. For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. To magnify something is to make it appear bigger than it is, for the purpose of seeing detail, okay? If you're gonna magnify a microbe, you're trying to find the small details in the thing. And what God has said is he has magnified his word above all his name, okay? This is what's recorded of this thing. Now, why would he do that? Because at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. But in order for those who are alive today, who are not standing there at the judgment, who will be forced to bow the knee and confess with the tongue, for us to believe that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father, and to confess those things, we have to see Jesus clearly. We have to understand some things about Jesus Christ. It's not enough to just have a mental ascension to a list of things. Okay, I believe that, that, that, that, and that. Yeah, I can agree to that. That's not what it is. It's a belief that God has worked in you, okay? It's a belief that God works. And that belief, you see it in John 6, 29, where Jesus says, this is the work of God that you believe on him whom he hath sent. It's the work that God does. How does he do it? Through the Word of God, through the preaching of the Word of God. It pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. And so if the Word of God, he sees fit to magnify it above his name so that we can see the small details in it, all right? There's a record. Those are pure words. He has magnified it to the point where we can see the small details in it. And now we're gonna go to John chapter 12. And this is where our introduction to this study this morning kind of concludes. John chapter 12. We're going to look at verse 48. It says, he that rejecteth me and receiveth not my words, hath one that judges him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. Now, a couple of things doctrinally we want to pull out of this. He that rejecteth me and receiveth not, okay? Came unto his own and his own received him not. But as to as many as received him, to them give ye power to become the sons of God, even them which believe on his name. What does it mean to receive? Now, in our modern vernacular, we use the context of receiving a gift. Somebody hands you something, you've received that, okay? And I don't contend with that whatsoever, okay? But there is a fuller understanding in the concept of receiving someone's words. If you were to receive a testimony from somebody, you have to weigh that testimony to see if it's true or if it's false. You're judging that testimony. Somebody saw an accident and they're giving their testimony. They're a witness. A witness has proof. They were an eyewitness. They saw it firsthand. And they give a testimony, a declaration of what they saw. And you're weighing that out. You have the option to either receive that testimony or to reject it. You have the option to either believe that it's true, that what is being spoken has weight to it, it has substance to it, it can be validated, that you can believe that. That's what it is to receive in that aspect. Or you can reject it as being false. And so understanding this, he that rejecteth me and receiveth not my words. What are we to do then? Look at the words of Jesus Christ and see that they have authority. To see that they have authority to tell us things. Listen even to what the people say when Jesus is preaching in the synagogues. They marveled at his doctrine. And they marveled at the fact that he spoke as one having authority and not as the scribes. And they were amazed at the fact that even the evil spirits were subject unto him. Which is something, because they weren't amazed that there were evil spirits amongst them. They were amazed that someone had command over them. They've gotten comfortable to those evil spirits being in the synagogue. I think there's a lot of people today that have gotten just comfortable. Who was it? I think it was Leonard Ravenhill again preached about getting used to the dark. Getting used to the dark, your eyes adjust to the dark. That's another preaching for another time. But understanding this, that these words that we've seen, that there is a record he's written of in the volume of the book, every word of God is pure, he's magnified that word so we can see all the small little details of it, and that this word, it's important we receive these words because the word that I have spoken, he says, the same shall judge him in the last day. The word that was spoken to you is gonna be opened up. Now, you don't have to grab hold of this concept, but in my mind, this makes sense to me. It says the books were opened and another book was opened, which is the book of life. In correlation with this verse here, I believe it's the 66 books of this Bible, of the language that my heart speaks, okay? God speaks to my heart in English because that's what my heart speaks. God may speak the bat's son-in-law. His primary language is Kurdish. So God speaks to him in Kurdish. Okay, that's the language his heart speaks. That's what he thinks in, that's what he dreams in. The Portuguese-speaking people. Now, I'm sure you dream in Portuguese and you can think through things in Portuguese and such, but your natural inclination is to think in English. You don't have to translate something to English, you know what I mean? You take it from English and translate it into that other one as quick as it is, you know, that's the process of it. And so, That concept, if God has wanted me to know His words, He's going to hold me accountable for those words which were spoken to me. He is going to judge me by those words. He said He's given a record. He said that record is in the volume of the book. He said every word of God is pure. The question is then, where is that record? Where are the words of God? For the English-speaking people, I believe it's in this King James Bible, And I'm going to present my belief, the belief that God has settled in my heart with, and it isn't anything that I've learned from man. God has instructed me in these things and solidified it, not because of what's written about the Bible, but what's written in it. I believe that every word of God is pure. I believe that every word in this King James Bible is exactly as God had intended it to be. That I don't need to wonder, okay, but what would that really mean? And that type of thing. And so this is where my mind is at in these things. And so with that concept, let's look at a few things as to the actual wording of the King James Bible. What's the number one argument that you hear about it? Now, I don't use the King James Bible because it's so hard to read. It's just all the Vs and Vows and the Fs, and it's just so hard to read. Well, with a little instruction, those things give great clarity. There are certain aspects of the wording of the King James Bible that make it so it perfectly mirrors, it perfectly gives that perfect interpretation of the original language in English. Greek and Hebrew have pronouns that are singular, and they have pronouns that are plural. English doesn't have that. I could be addressing you, or I could be addressing you. And it's kind of lost in translation, so to speak. But what the King James Bible does is it takes this concept of the singular and plural pronoun. That's where we start in our little pamphlet here as these pronouns. Right at the top, we see the one column, the, thou, thy, thine. They all begin with T, okay? And those things are all singular. Someone will address thee. When it's possessive, it'll be thy or thine. When it's being addressed as a command or something of that sort, it'll be thou. In the plurality, you have ye, you, your, and yours. And so when you look at these things, and you can cross-reference those original languages, and you can look at that, that those things were put in there, and it does delineate between singular and plural. Who is being addressed? There's a couple of passages I'd like to look at in relation to this. Go to, let's start in John chapter 3. We'll go to John chapter 3 first. Since we're right there in, maybe still there in John chapter 12. John chapter three, and I have there verse seven. Of course, Jesus is speaking to Nicodemus. We're very familiar with this passage here. And it says this, with this in mind, between singular and plural pronouns, it says, marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. Now, I don't know if you've ever considered this before or not, but he's addressing Nicodemus personally. Because he says the. Marvel not that I said into the, Nicodemus, ye must be born again. Well, who's the ye? Well, he said, we know that thou comest from God, Rabbi, you know, there in verse two, we know that thou art a teacher come from God, for no man can do these things that thou doest, except God be with him. So Nicodemus has linked himself up in a group of people, all right? Nicodemus is a Pharisee. So in this ye, immediately we see the Pharisees as a whole. Now, they understood the law perfectly. Paul said that he was blameless, as touching the law, blameless. If it could be done, if it could be touched, if it could be lived out, outwardly, Paul had done it blamelessly, and the Holy Ghost let him say that. But it wasn't until he saw that the law said, thou shalt not covet, that he knew lust. The law entered in, sin revived, and I died, he said in Romans 7. And so what they had to see is that they needed to be born again. But he's addressing Nicodemus personally. He says, Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. Now broader scope, we see the entirety of the world must be born again. It isn't just for a select few. It isn't just for the elect as far as what Calvinism would teach in that aspect of that. No, no, it is for the entirety of the world. Hebrews 2.9, that He tasted death for every man, every man. It didn't say all men. It didn't just group it into the entirety of mankind, but He tasted death. He tasted every man's death on the cross. He tasted mine, yours, yours, yours, yours, yours, all that are here, the entirety of the world. He tasted that death. And He was made to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. And so He tasted that death for every man, so it is an individual thing. But here we see Nicodemus being told by Jesus, marvel not that it's sent unto thee, ye must be born again. And it just broadens the scope of that passage there. And honestly, in the newer versions, that's lost because the only word that's used is you. Don't marvel that I said to you, you must be born again. It's lost that he has having this personal time with Nicodemus, but he addresses the entirety of the world in that passage. And now I want you to go now to Luke chapter 22. And this is interesting to me. Luke chapter 22, and you can begin sifting through these things. Go into the law, go into the book of Deuteronomy sometime, and just start looking for these pronouns, thee, thy, you, your, ye, and see how when Moses is giving the law, he is putting all of this out here, because there are some things that are said, thou must take thy, blah, blah, blah, and do this, but then he'll shift to you and ye. And what that is, in Hebrew, the Jews listening to that would have known, oh, he is addressing me personally. This is my personal responsibility before God. And then it shifts to the plurality and, oh, this is the congregation's responsibility before God, okay? And it broadens the scope of this thing so much more. Sorry, Luke 22. And verse 31, very familiar passage here too. The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desire to have you that he may sift you as wheat. And we'll pause there for a second. You, in the plurality. He's speaking about the disciples. Satan hath desire to have you. He addresses Simon, but he says, Satan's desire to have you, that he may sift you as we eat. What is a sifting? It's a separating. It separates. And did that not happen that night? Were they not all separated and driven from each other? But he goes on, he says, but I've prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. And when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. His prayer was specifically for Peter. Why? Because Peter was going to stand up. and he was going to preach, and he was going to strengthen the brethren. You look at where he stood up on the day of Pentecost and preaches and strengthens the brethren. You go ahead and you read through 1 and 2 Peter, and you, as brethren, are strengthened. Why? Well, because Jesus had prayed for him specifically, all right? So Satan desired to sift the disciples and to separate those disciples as wheat. but he prayed for Peter specifically, that Peter would be able to come and bring that back together and be that leader to strengthen the brethren, okay? And it just, it brings out a little bit more depth there rather than just skimming across the surface when you just think you means just one individual, okay? So this is the first aspect of this. The next couple of things as we go down this pamphlet, if you look in your trifold there, We have general rules for punctuation. Now this is basic rules that any English teacher would teach you, and it's a good thing to keep in mind, especially, you know, you younger ones here, when you get into the writings of Paul, and he has those run-on sentences that just keep going and going and going and going and going, what this will help you do is navigate those things with understanding. All right, so let's look at this, the comma. How would that traffic cop use a comma? He'd say, pause, wait here. He's standing out there in the middle of the road, and the traffic light is out, so the cop is out there, and he's saying, you wait here, you go on through, and he says, okay, now you can come through. He didn't stop traffic altogether, it wasn't a full stop, it wasn't a period, but he's just saying, pause, wait here for a second. And so where you see a comma in your King James Bible, it means pause. It might be a pause that you need to pause and reflect on what was just said, or it might just be a pause in the breaking and the flow of the sentence. All right? And so keep those things in mind. The semicolon. Now this is interesting because the very first printing of the King James Bible had no semicolons. They weren't introduced until later on. And so when you look at this idea, though, the semicolon is a change in direction. And so, accordingly, proceed with caution. You were going this way and then the traffic cop stops you and says, no, you can't go that way anymore. We're going to direct you down this road this way. And so as you're reading through the writings of Paul or anything in the word of God, you go through and you see a semicolon. OK, it's we're still on the same roadway. But he's taking a different direction in what he's talking about. He's going in a different direction with it. The next thing is a colon. When you see a colon, specifically in the New Testament, this is true, it'll either explain the thought that was just produced, just presented to you, it'll explain that further. Or, and you can tell very clearly by the context, or it gives you the opposite of what was just said. Okay, that's what a colon does. Now in the Old Testament, when you see, especially in the Psalms, you see two colons in a sentence. Now the rules of English language say you shouldn't do that, but God said you should. And what they will signify is a thought within a thought, much like the parentheses in the New Testament. Okay, it's a thought within a thought. It's almost its own separate sentence. within that sentence, bracketed by those two colons, okay? So as you're studying through and you're reading through these things, the punctuation in your Bible is given to you to give clarity and understanding of those things. Of course, a period is a full stop, and then the parentheses is a thought within a thought. Let me explain that part to you here. Especially in Paul, he'll do this. He'll be talking right along, and he'll explain something, and then he'll give a parenthetical statement, and sometimes that's many verses long, and then he jumps right up with a thought that he took before. I'll give an example of this. Sean, my brother-in-law, the man that was sitting in the back corner last night, just bought that property across the road. Now the parenthetical statement would be the man that was sitting in the back corner last night. bought the property across the road. What that does is it gives you a more context of what's being spoken of. Now you can, in your mind, picture, okay, I do remember seeing a man sitting in that back corner, so that must be Sean. You're able to see what the author is speaking of and talking about. And so with this, when you see those parenthetical statements, you can momentarily Eliminate that, read the first part and then the second part. And then read that parenthetical statement to see the background of to what's actually being spoken of. And then read it all in conjunction together and it gives you a fuller understanding with the background mind that the author had written in there. And so that's just some basic rules for those punctuations, and you can go on from there, and that alone might clear up some passages for you. This one here cleared up a passage for us in Hosea that was vexing to us. We were reading through Hosea. Do you remember where that was, love? I completely forgot. I was going to write it down and I forgot. But let's read down through this here. The first letter of the first word of a quote is capitalized. These are rules for capitalization. That very fact right there cleared so much up for me. There's no quotation marks in the King James Bible, but to signify the beginning of a quote, somebody is saying something, that first letter of that first word is capitalized. And you continue reading, when a quote is more than one sentence long in the same verse, the first sentence will begin capitalized, and the following sentence will begin with a lowercase letter. We saw that last night in what I spoke of, I think it was in Psalm 19, maybe. What is it, babe? All right, Hosea 4.18, why don't you turn there real quick? And I'm not going to preach the doctrine out of Hosea 4.18, just really for the sake of the flow of everything here. But Hosea 4, we'll start at verse 17. And I like saying this, easiest way to find Hosea is find Daniel, because Daniel's pretty easy to find, right? And then it's the very next one, all right? I have a hard time deciphering where all the minor prophets are still, all right? I struggle with that. So pray for me on that, if you would. But Hosea 4, verse 17. It says, Ephraim is joined unto idols, let him alone. Their drink is sour, they have committed whoredom continually. Her rulers with shame do love, give ye. And that just, we were reading down through there and it's like, why is that give ye there? What on earth is this all about? And we chewed on it for a couple of weeks and we were just meditating on those things and searching throughout the word of God, trying to figure out why does it say give ye? Because it just seems out of place. And then it struck me that G is capitalized. So that's a quote. That's what someone is saying, give ye. And then you read that in context. Their drink is sour, they have committed whoredom continually. Her rulers with shame do love. And they're saying, give ye. They are saying, you go ahead and you give, and I'll prophesy whatever you want. And further study into that and the cross-referencing and things that really, out of Micah and Jeremiah, and those things really just solidify that in. But that's what they were doing. They were hirelings, essentially. How we would use that term, a hireling. And understanding that that is the beginning of a quote really just brought instant clarity to the whole thing. And I found other places where, oh, that was a quote. And it's brought even more clarity, because then you can begin looking for that quote. What is that quoting? Where is that quoted from? And you begin studying that and see what else that passage in the Old Testament that was quoted in the New Testament says. And it just gives you a good grounding on that doctrine. of what either Paul or Peter or James, John, whoever, is writing about there. And so, I have here the example in Genesis 32, 17. This is a very clear example that, you know, for somebody that maybe has never seen this before, is this. In a different crowd giving instruction, I wouldn't take him to Hosea, but, you know, the level of understanding of the ones here today enables that. So Genesis 32, 17, And he commanded the foremost saying, and we have a capital W, when Esau my brother meeteth thee and asketh thee saying, another quote, whose art thou? And then, and whither goest thou? And whose are these before thee? You see those A's of the word and are lowercase. So it's a continuation of these quotes. These are things that are being spoken all in one sentence, okay? They're separate questions delineated by the question mark, okay? But they're all part of one quote, okay? And so that's where that is in regards to that. the rules for quotations. Moving on, in the middle of the page there, the ETH verb ending. And this is fascinating to me. In our modern language, we would put an S at the end of a word to show that something is continuing to go. He runs down the road. That's how we would say that. What the King James Bible translators did was they put this ETH ending on the end of it. And what that shows is a continuation of that action. It's not just an old way to say things. And I've been able to... really convinced the gamesayers on a couple of people in this by saying that these and the vows and the ETHs, that's not just old English. It's technically early modern English, if we want to get real technical about that. Old English is before 1100. But when you look at this, And that ETH ending, it shows a continual action or one that fills all the tenses of a verb, past, present, and future, okay? And the context very clearly will show the difference, which one it is, all right? And therein is where you get a good study of the difference between the word believe and the word believeth. The devils believe also and tremble, but whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Okay? It's that continual thing. You've heard of some people say, oh, I used to believe that. I don't believe that anymore though. All right? That was a vain belief. Paul would have called that a vain belief. You know, he said, warned the, it was either the Corinthian church or Galatians. He said, lest you have believed in vain. It's a vain belief. It was only up in your head. You had made a mental ascension that, yeah, that's believable. But it wasn't that belief that God worketh in you. This is the work of God that you believe on him whom he hath sent. And that work that God does in you believing turns into a believeth. And it doesn't end. And herein we find, you know, just even in the very wording of the King James Bible, the thought of someone losing their salvation is asinine. There's absolutely no way. If somebody understands what really goes on when they have the new birth, there'd be no possible way you could believe that you would lose that or be able to give it back. What are you gonna do, ascend up into heaven and pull yourself down out? Because Ephesians 2.6 says, and he hath made us to sit, present tense, in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. All right, you're not waiting to get to heaven when you die, you're already there. Ephesians 2, 6 tells you that. You're already seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Well, how is that? Well, your spirit is in that physical body of Jesus Christ that is seated at the right hand of the Father. We are in Him, He is in us, the whole gamut of it, okay? And even just the usage of that ETH ending showing that continual tense of that verb, it solidifies an awful lot in that, okay? Now, we need a little bit more meat here. The use of the words Spirit and Spirit, capital S and lowercase s. This is one of the, I would say, probably the least understood things about a King James Bible, is that the capitalizations are specific. They're important. It's important to see what is capitalized and what is not. We saw that already in the quotations. But this is something that I had never considered until I began seeing it everywhere. And we'll just work our way down through these things and look at this. A lowercase s spirit. I have written here, it speaks of a personal spirit. The inward spiritual nature of man. the part of a man that directs the mind, the life in man that drives him. And I have all these references here. And I don't think for the sake of time right now, we'll go through these, but we'll lay out the basic principles of it. And you can go through and look these things up and study them out. But here, this idea of a spirit, every person has a spirit. The Bible says God is a spirit. So every individual of the Godhead has their own spirit. Why? Because they have their own personality. It really is what makes your personality you. And your personality is what God has fallen in love with. That's the part of you God really has fallen in love with. Brother Larry, your personality is the only personality like yours in the entirety of the world. God made you individual. Same thing with you, Brother Philip. Same thing with the children in here, with my wife, your wives, myself. It's individual. There is no one in this entire world that is me, except me. And that's why we see that Christ died for every man. He tasted death for every man. Why? Because of that individual personality He gave you. Now, our personalities can be tainted by bad character. All right? Somebody's personality might be miserable because of their bad character, because of sin, because of the sin nature has tainted that personality. Ah, but that's part of the beauty of the new birth, is that it purifies not only your heart, but it purifies your personality. It makes you something that is a joy to be around, to put it plainly. And so that's what a personal spirit is. Now when you look at this, when a lowercase s spirit is connected to the Godhead, it's referring to the personal spirit of Jesus Christ. And I do want to look at some of these, because this is a brand new concept. Has anybody heard that statement before? I'm going to back this up with scripture, because I don't want to just throw things out there and you think, oh, this crazy kid up in the woods. No, let's look at these things. Let's compare spiritual with spiritual, okay? Let's start at Genesis chapter 6. Genesis 6 in verse 3. This is actually the first place where a lowercase s spirit is used, referring to Godhead. All right, Genesis chapter 6 and verse 3. It says, and the Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh, yet his day shall be in 120 years. Doctrinally, what are we looking at here? We are looking at Jehovah God, all capital L-O-R-D signifying Jehovah, excuse me, And he says, my spirit. So he's speaking of his personal spirit. Well now, why isn't that a capital S? One thing that the Sword of the Lord did is just recently, I think maybe it was 2022, is they went through and they printed a King James Bible that took every S like this that refers to deity and capitalized it out of respect and honor for that name. But I believe we're gonna see that that was folly. I don't think that was a good thing to do that. And we'll see why here in a bit. But we see, my spirit shall not always strive with man. How would the Spirit of God strive with man? Well, throughout the Old Testament, we see God striving with man. We see God striving with Abraham. We see God striving with David. We see God striving with even Jeremiah. He said, I'm not going to preach. I'm done. I'm not going to preach. But it was burning within his bones to preach, okay? And God's Spirit is striving with man now. Now, I said this is the Spirit of Jesus. How did the Spirit of God, of Jehovah, the Lord, strive with man in the New Testament? Well, the word was made flesh and dwelt among us. And in the New Testament time, we see Jesus Christ, the man, striving with the Pharisees, with the scribes, with the lawyers, with the Sadducees. We see him striving with his disciples. We see him striving with the common folk, with the Romans. We see him striving in those things. I said, my spirit will not always strive with man. There's coming a day when there is no more striving. There's coming a day where that trumpet is gonna sound and the striving will be no more. He will no longer be striving with man, striving to convince him that he's lost. And so this is foundational in this concept, and we even see the Spirit of Jesus Christ striving with men today through the preaching of the Word of God, striving to convince Him, using the Holy Ghost absolutely to reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment, of sin because they believe not on Me, He said, of righteousness because I go to My Father and you see Me no more, and of judgment because the Prince of this world is judged. All right, and so those things are elemental in this. Go to Isaiah 11 now. Isaiah 11. Let's look at verse two. We'll start out with verse one. Isaiah 11 is very clearly Jesus Christ. We understand this, all right? This is not anything that is new or that would be fanciful to think this. And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. Now, who is the branch? It's Jesus Christ. And let's look at this. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. Now it's interesting here. The spirit, lowercase s spirit, of Jehovah God is going to rest upon the branch. What branch is that? Well, what part of the person of Jesus Christ came out of Jesse? It was His flesh. When the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us, He was born of the tribe of Judah. He was born a man in the tribe of Judah. And looking all down through these things, we see that the Lord Himself put His Spirit upon Him. So the person of Jesus Christ had the Spirit of Jehovah God. Okay? Continue on. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, and those are... Wisdom and understanding is one spirit. Counsel and might is one spirit. Right? Delineated by that comma, using our understanding of punctuation, we pause. Okay? The spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord. All of these things are aspects, they're individual spirits that Jesus Christ has that he will bestow upon people, all right? When you study out through, and I don't think, we do have a few of these. We'll continue on in this concept. But here we see Jehovah God, the Lord, putting his spirit and is resting upon the person of Jesus Christ, okay? His own spirit. Now, go to Exodus 31. Exodus 31. Look at verse 3. This is speaking of Bezalel. All right, they're getting ready to make everything pertaining to the tabernacle and all of those things. Verse 3 says, and I have filled him, the Lord is speaking, saying it to Moses, I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge and all manner of workmanship. Now there in Isaiah 11, we saw those same things mentioned, speaking of that branch, Jesus Christ. And here we have that same lowercase s spirit saying that spirit of wisdom and understanding and knowledge, manner of workmanship, those things were put upon Bezalel to be able to accurately do what he needed to do to make the tabernacle. All of the things that needed molded, that needed pounded, that needed put together, sewn, stitched, I mean, every aspect of it, Bezalel had the spirit of Jesus Christ in him to be able to do that accurately, why? Because the tabernacle pictures Jesus Christ in every aspect. You look at every bit of that tabernacle from the foundation of the silver sockets, right to the colorings of the crimson, of the scarlet on that, the veil, okay? Even the gold and that candlestick, which was to burn and it was to light and that it was to shed light over against it. It wasn't just lighting the room, no. The lights were there on that candlestick, the lamps were there to light up the candlestick so that you could see them. Well, that oil in that thing is the Word of God, that oil is the Holy Ghost pumping in that Word of God. You get that out of Zechariah, I think it's chapter 4. And you see those things pumping that oil into that candlestick, and when the Holy Ghost turns that oil up, the flame gets a little bit brighter, and you can see Jesus Christ clearer. Okay? Understanding that these are all things that picture how God was gonna deal with man, how God was gonna approach man, how man was gonna approach God, all right? And where all that was gonna take place. And we get all of these things in the singling out of these small details, all right? Magnifying the word of God. So we can see the small details. Let's continue on. Go to Job 26. Job 26. We're looking at verse 3. I think I might have that wrong. Job 26. Oh, okay, I needed to continue on reading. We'll start at verse one. But Job answered and said, How hast thou helped him that is without power? How savest thou the arm that hath no strength? How hast thou counseled him that hath no wisdom? And how hast thou plentifully declared the thing that is? To whom hast thou uttered words, and whose spirit came from thee? And he goes on before, and he's addressing God. Look at this. Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place and hangeth the earth on nothing. That spirit that is within that one is from God, contending with him, striving with him, trying to show him these things, that God is like no other. There is nothing that you can compare to God. He is above all. He is extolled. Extolled is to take that name and put it above every other name. To exalt is a continual lifting up in highness, not only in location, but in context, in connotation, in everything about the name of God is to be exalted. And this is what this is referring to here. Let's go... I'm trying to see the best way to continue on in this. Let's go to Nehemiah 9.20. Just a couple of pages back. Nehemiah 9, verse 20. All right, he's addressing the Lord here, and he says, Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. All right, he's relaying back to the Lord all that God did with them in the wilderness here, okay? And in this, we had just read that out of Exodus, where he put his spirit in them. Again, it's a lowercase s spirit. It's a spirit associated with deity, but it's a lowercase s. Building line upon line of these things, let's skip a couple of these. Let's go to Luke 23. Let's go into the New Testament and see what the good doctor says about it. Luke 23, go to verse 46. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And having said thus, he gave up the ghost. Now what's interesting here, again, Jesus is speaking. He refers to his spirit, and it's a lowercase s. Is Jesus God? Yes, he is. So here again, we have God referring to his own personal spirit, and it's a lowercase s. Out of the words of Jesus Christ himself and recorded in this aspect in the King James Bible, you have that showing Jesus says, that's my spirit. And going through that, you test those things, all right? Is this provable? And you go and you look at every way. The word spirit is used 505 times in your King James Bible. It's not an impossible study to go through all those, but it does take time. It'll take a couple of months to go through. And you just catalog every time the Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of Jehovah, the Spirit of God, you know, all of those different places. and capital S Spirit, lowercase S Spirit, and just put them in columns and separate them out and see what's grouped together, what all plays together, where they're all talking of the same thing, okay? And here we can follow these things throughout our King James Bible because every word of God is pure. He gave us these things. Think about Hebrews 4.12. The word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and what? Spirit. God has given us a sword so sharp that we can dissect the Godhead. And we can see who this is speaking of. We can see who this is speaking of. We can see who this is speaking of. With an understanding of these basic principles, you can actually go into the Word of God and you can look at the Godhead and say, okay, what part of the Godhead plays this role in salvation? What role does the Holy Ghost play in salvation? What role does the Father play in salvation? What role does Jesus Christ play in salvation? And then that sanctifying process, what role is it? How do we deal with those things, okay? And it really all pulls together into 1 John 5, 8. And this is going to open up a discussion that we'll solidify here in the next half of our session here today, okay? 1 John 5, 8. And we'll start at verse six. This is he that came by water and blood. Now, who is this speaking of? Verse five tells us Jesus, the son of God. This is he that came by water and blood. Now, this is a very precious verse because it tells us how Jesus came. He came by water and blood. This isn't speaking of the blood of His cross and His crucifixion, because that's not how He came into the world. He came by water and blood. Now, what does Jesus tell Nicodemus back in John chapter 3? He cannot see the kingdom of God. That which is flesh is flesh, that which is spirit is spirit. Okay, so he's delineating between the physical birth and the new birth. And what did he say was there? Water. Now, as fathers, we understand there's a certain amount of blood that's associated with that. But I'll present to you this morning that this is referring to Deuteronomy chapter 22. In Deuteronomy 22, what we have is we have in the law The tokens of a maid's virginity, okay? When she went to the marriage altar and she was a virgin, and she and her new husband would consummate that marriage, there was a cloth that was laid and there would be blood. That was then presented to the father and he would keep that as a token. Yes, my daughter went to the altar a maid. She went to the altar a virgin. In that law, if that husband found occasion against her and went to the father and said, I went in to your daughter and found her not a maid, I want a divorce. If he could not present those tokens of her virginity, that man was able to divorce. And Jesus says it was because of the hardness of your heart and it was fornication, all right? Sexual relations before the marriage, okay? And so that would take care of that. Those of you able to understand and receive, you understand why, okay? Now with that aspect, though, Mary would not have had tokens of her virginity, because the birth of Jesus Christ would have taken that out of the way. That's why here John records the tokens of Mary's virginity, because this is Jesus which came by water and blood. Even Jesus Christ, not by water only, not like every other man in this entire world that has only come by water because that was already taken out of the way that would cause the blood because of that relation, but by water and blood. The tokens of Mary's virginity is in 1 John 5, 6, showing that when Jesus came, he came not only by water, but by blood also. She was a virgin, okay? Understanding that this is speaking of Jesus Christ, and it says, and it is the spirit there beareth witness because the spirit is truth. That spirit bearing witness is the same thing that is in verse 10, that he that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. All right? The Spirit of God bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. All right? That is the proof of salvation. That is the evidence of those things that were done on the inward parts. If the Spirit of God cannot bear witness with your spirit that you are a child of God, you are not a child of God. You are not born of God. If you have to go to man to assure your salvation, or if you have to continually do this, or continually look to that, or continually even looking back at that point where you thought you got saved, and, man, I've just, I've been sitting under the preaching, and preaching on condemnation, and I just feel that condemnation. So I need to continually look back on what I did there, and I prayed, and I asked Jesus to save me, and so I gotta look at that. But if the Spirit itself can't bear witness with your spirit, It was a vain belief. You believed in vain. Okay? That was the case with my wife, and that was the case with myself. All right? I had, in that room back in 2002, I had prayed a prayer. Somebody had led me through the Romans room, and I prayed a prayer. And I left the room. Feeling about the same way I did when I went in, I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know what was, growing up a Methodist, and not a lot of doctrine that's taught in the Methodist church, you know, the Bible stories and stuff. Preached on hell, I was afraid of going to hell, so I, motivated by fear of hell, I went and I prayed. Looking back now, it's very, very clear in my life, the things, the works of the flesh that were manifested, I did not have salvation. I didn't have Jesus Christ. There was no belief associated with that. It was motivated out of fear. It was humanism. Ten shekels and a shirt, that was it. I just didn't want to go to hell. And it wasn't until 2009 that the Lord finally broke me, showed me the wretchedness of my heart. It was, it would have been, I think I can single it down. It was, I was driving to work one night and I was, I was driving and went over these back hills on the way to work. And it was about quarter after 10, I was working a midnight shift. And I believe it was probably a Sunday evening going into Monday morning that I was, that I was working just in the timing of everything. The Lord just totally broke me. He showed me the wickedness that was within me. And He showed me everything that I did was just fruit of what I was. And it felt so filthy and black. And I was literally sobbing as I was driving up over this hill. And then I didn't even think it could get any worse. Then some things started flashing back in my mind of things that I've heard in the preaching. And I began seeing Jesus Christ and His holiness and His majesty and His beauty and the wonderment of Jesus Christ. And I was undone. I was completely undone, broken. And just when I thought it was hopeless, the words flashed across my mind, my grace is sufficient. Just those words, my grace is sufficient. And that very instant, I believed it. I finally believed that everything he had just shown me, that Jesus Christ was sufficient to take care of all of that. And it instantly went from weeping and sorrow and fear and trembling before Jesus to instant joy. And it was like the type of joy where you're quivering and you're laughing. And if anybody was in the car with me, they would have thought I was crazy. But the rest of that night went on, and I don't remember the rest of the drive to work, I don't remember the rest of the night, and looking back now, I can see that God immediately began changing some things in me. That that was the point where I was born of God. And I used to get so angry at my wife. I never yelled at her, and I never threw anything, I was never rough with her, never anything like that, because I had the law of my mother and my father in me. All right? They had set the bounds of my habitation. You don't go outside of those bounds. You're never rough with your wife. You never scream at your wife. All right? Never once heard my father raise his voice like that to my wife, to his wife. All right? And so I didn't do that to my wife. And I thank the Lord for that. I thank the Lord for that. But with that, inside, I would be so white-hot with rage that I would curse her and I would call her literally everything that would make a sailor blush. All right? She never knew it. But it was within. I look back now and from that day forward, that never happened again. He took the rage. He took the anger away. He took the wrath away. And it was just peace. It was an instant abiding peace, okay? Same thing with my wife, and we won't take the time to go through her testimony now, but we've kind of shared it, you know, in relation to being up there in a clavicle and all. But now I sit under preaching. And I searched myself, as Peter said, examine yourselves, see if you'd be in the faith. You know, he said, Paul said, ah. And I know you're not that Jesus Christ, and you accept you'd be reprobates. No, that's not it. Something along the lines of what Peter said when he said, examine yourselves. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. That was it. And I'd examine that. And I would look, and you know, Lord, have you done this in me? Because the preaching is heavy, and the Holy Ghost is moving, and there's conviction flowing across the room, and I examine myself. And then the Spirit of God comes in and gives joy in that moment. Just an abiding joy in that moment. And all I see is the holiness of Jesus Christ. when I'm examining myself, and it's the Spirit of God bearing witness with my spirit. I'm a child of God, and the joy is there, and it's just full and wonderful. And so that is His Spirit in that, what we saw there, coming back around to what we've been talking about. Verse 6, it is the Spirit that beareth witness because the Spirit is truth. Now look at verse 7. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one." Right? And now modern versions hate that verse, and they'll either take it out or they'll chop it up or put it in italics. F.H.A. Scrivener, when he did that paragraph Bible in 1889, I think it was, he put verse 7 in italics because he was friends with Westcott and Horton. They didn't believe that verse. And so he put that in italics, meaning that it wasn't in the original languages. It's spurious, makes it spurious and doubtful. And so Satan hates that verse because it is the most clear-cut, defined verse of the Godhead there is in the entirety of the Word of God. There are three that bear record in heaven. All right? So they bear that record. We talked about that record. It is a written record. It's something that's recorded. And they bear that in heaven. And these three are one. Look at verse 8. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and these three agree in one. Now, if your Bible has a capital S Spirit, it's off of an Oxford printing. It's off of the two main lines of printings of Bibles from 1611 all the way forward, after Robert Barker had his first go at it and messed the whole thing up. We're going to talk about some of that history later on in just a little bit. But the king gave the printing authority to Oxford and Cambridge. And the reason was because they were established universities that cared about their name. They cared about accuracy and prestige, not just making money. Sadly, that's shifted today, and they're just a printing house. But at that point, they wanted accuracy. They wanted to do what was right by this thing. And so they were printing those things. And as those printings went on, there were some things that went on, and we'll go through the history of all of that. It's a rich history from 1611 to present. We're going to talk about just overview of that a little bit today. But looking at this here, if that is a capital S Spirit, and if every capital S Spirit is the Holy Spirit, meaning the third person of the Godhead, the Holy Ghost, well then, why does it say, verse nine, if we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater, for this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his son. But if that is indeed a lowercase S spirit, in the Cambridge Bibles, pre-1985, it'll be a lowercase S spirit, and I'll explain all that in a little bit. In earth, now we know that Jesus Christ had a earthen vessel, and we know in the law that earthen vessel, dealing with those different sacrifices and such, those things that were gonna carry that sin offering, if it was an earthen vessel, it was to be broken once they were carried into the tabernacle. Once they were offered, that earthen vessel was to be broken. And we know that his earthen vessel was broken. He even said, my body, which is broken for you, okay? And so in earth, there are three that bear record in heaven, and there are three that bear witness in earth. Why? Because they were there. They were there at the crucifixion. Now what three things left the body of Jesus when he was crucified? The centurion came up and stabbed his side, and forthwith flowed blood and water. And just before he died, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And so what you have is the spirit, the water, and the blood. And these three agree in one. What did they agree on? Well, what did the centurion say? When he saw the blood and water pour out, when he saw the spirit leave, when he saw the earth shaking and the blackness of everything and the thunderings and all that went on at that point, he said, truly this was the Son of God. So in earth, that bore witness that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Now we look at verse nine in light of that. If we receive the witness of men, That centurion, looking at the blood and the water and the spirit leaving, says the witness of God is greater. So even if you were there standing right next to that centurion, even if as the breeze blew through and it whipped some of that blood of Jesus off his body and it landed on your face, even if you were there to feel the ground shake when the earthquake hit, even if you were right there to watch all of that, The Spirit of God bearing witness within you is a greater witness than you physically seeing the crucifixion, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And this is the doctrine of this, looking at that lowercase s spirit of Jesus Christ. And seeing that throughout the entirety of the Bible and seeing that throughout those things. Take the time and go through all of those in conjunction together and look at those things. I could take you to Psalm 51, 11, where David says, take not thy Holy Spirit from me. It's a lowercase h and a lowercase s. Lowercase h, holy, is always an adjective. It's describing that spirit. It is a Holy Spirit. But if the lowercase s spirit is Jesus Christ and not the third person of the Godhead, what was David asking for? Well, David was a prophet of God. Peter tells us that in Acts chapter two. And in first Peter 1.11, he says that the spirit of Christ, which was in them, did signify the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow. So we get to Psalm 22, verse one, it says, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from me and from the words of my roaring? Jesus from the cross says, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? But his personal spirit was in the prophet David when he prophesied of that thousands of years before. When he prophesied of that, that's why it is in the first person, because the spirit of Christ himself was in David. The spirit of Christ himself was in Asaph. Asaph is a prophet. He's a seer. He's called a seer in one of the passages, all right? And I think it's in 1 Samuel when Saul is looking for Samuel, and they're looking for the asses, and he says, oh, there's a seer in this town. Let's go find him. And they said, because aforetime, a prophet was called a seer. Okay, so a prophet is a seer, and Asaph is called a seer. So he was a prophet of God, and he prophesied of Jesus Christ. Why? Because in Luke 24, it speaks of When he's speaking to those, not only his disciples in that upper room, but also the two on the way to Emmaus, he says he opened up their understanding and he showed them all the things in the law and in the prophets and in the Psalms concerning himself. He showed himself all of those things. So Jesus opened their understanding to that so they'd be able to see him where? In the volume of the book. And so that's that aspect of it. And again, there's a whole lot more that we could dive into that. But I don't want to beleaguer it and I don't want this to be a drudgery to you. But this stuff fascinates me because it's like the door is cracked open and there's a little bit of glory that shines through. You know, you see those things pop up and anyone who is involved in mining understands that gold is in veins. It's not just chunks and nuggets. It'll run in a vein through the ground. And every once in a while, you're digging along through the Word of God and you brush off the dirt and there's a vein of gold that shows. It's like, oh, there's something there. You start digging around it and you find more and more, all right? And that's what the Word of God has given to us for, is to find those things so we can see Him. Why? Because when we see Him, we'll be like Him. We're predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son. That's what predestination is, right? It's not taking it and resting the Scriptures to the point where some are predestined to heaven and some are predestined to hell. That's foolishness to think those things. Especially if, you know, He tasted death for every man. What a fool thing to do, to taste death for a man that was never going to get it. Never going to have eternal life, or even have the chance for eternal life. But when you see that we're predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, again, how are we conformed to him? Well, the more we see him, the more we'll be like him. The more we see him in the volume of the book, the more that he's going to conform us into that image, and the more we will want to be like him, and he works those things within us. All right, let's move on here. The next section there says a lowercase s spirit will sometimes be referring to an evil or unclean spirit or a devilish influence in the world. And we're not going to go through those. Those things are very easy to single out and see and understand those things. And it's a fascinating study for sure. But now the capital S spirit. This is interesting. I mentioned, you know, and it was always instructed to me, and I'm sure that's how you were instructed in these things, and great men of God had gone on before and said this, and I honor and respect them to the utmost degree, all right? I learned this from Pastor Hain, and I love that man, and I respect and honor that man. But God has shed a little light, okay? And what I hope to do is to just present this. I'm not trying to sway you, I'm not trying to convince you of anything, all right? But I just want to show you what the Word of God actually says, okay? So we'll look at this. A capitalist spirit indicates the personal spirits of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost working in, through, or for a person in a spiritual way. What we have as an understanding is that every capitalist spirit in the Bible is the Holy Spirit, that third person of the Godhead. And what I'm gonna present to you is that there's a few places where it is not. First place we're gonna go to is Matthew chapter 10. So turn to Matthew chapter 10. I just want you to see this with your own eyes and then, you know, just file it away. Don't even grab right ahold of it and say, oh, wow, that's really great. Just file it away, but put it towards the front someplace, okay? So that you can just keep your eyes open for these things and go on from there. Matthew chapter 10, we were actually talking about this last night, brother, in regards to the Lord giving you things. Let's start at verse 18, it says, and ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak, for it shall be given you in that same hour what you shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the spirit of your father, which speaketh in you. Now, if you look at that, it is a capitalized spirit, but it literally says the spirit of your father. So that is the father's personal spirit being spoken of. And it's a capital S. This isn't an isolated thing, but this is just one of the places where it does signify, okay, that is the Spirit of your Father, and it's a capital S Spirit. So here, at least, we know, in this instance, not every capital S Spirit is the Holy Spirit, because it literally says it's the Spirit of your Father. Well, let's look on a couple of more things. Go to Romans 8. Let's look at these few things here, and then we're gonna take a little break, and then we'll continue on. Romans 8, and look at verse 9. It says this, but you're not in the flesh, but in the spirit. If so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the, what? Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And here we have Christ being spoken of, and we have a capitalist spirit, and it literally says the Spirit of Christ. So that is Christ's spirit. That's not the third person of the Godhead. That's not the Holy Ghost. That's Christ's spirit being spoken of. Now, study on through that, and you find that spirit of intercession. Who was our interceder? Who is there ever making intercession for us before the throne of God? Who is our advocate before the throne of God? Well, it is Jesus Christ. So that spirit of intercession is his spirit interceding with groanings which cannot be uttered. I could take you to the law, I could take you to Leviticus chapter 5, and I could show you how that works, but we're not going to take the time to do that this morning. But it's just these fascinating things when you start looking at the little details, the subtle nuances in the King James Bible, and understanding that everything in here, I believe, is given by God to be able to discern these things. And it's great that he gave it to us in one book. All right? The only advantage that this has for me over Greek and Hebrew is that my heart speaks this. All right? Those Greek and Hebrew scriptures are very precious to me. Okay? I very much, I hold them exactly in utmost, utter regard. Those are the things that God holds, magnifies above all His name. But for me in my heart, He has given me this so that He can magnify His word above all His name. And when you begin dividing asunder soul and spirit, joints and marrow, discernment of thoughts, the tense of the heart, it begins showing you the Godhead in a little bit more fullness. Understanding that Jesus is interceding with groanings. Why? Because He was tempted at all points like as we are, yet without sin. So He knows. He knows what your groanings are. And they're groanings which cannot be uttered. In which case, you know, Paul did say that he was caught up into the third heaven and heard things which were unlawful to utter. And I just wonder if he heard some of those groanings which could not be uttered as he's interceding for the saints. And it's precious to me. It's very precious to me to see Jesus Christ in that light. Now, let's go someplace then real quick. 1 Corinthians chapter 12. Are we doing okay? We're still awake. Coming on here shortly, we'll be wrapping this up. 1 Corinthians 12, we're gonna look at verse 11. Okay, it says, but all these worketh that one and selfsame spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. Now what's interesting about this, I believe this is speaking of the Holy Ghost. This is one place where it is speaking of that third person of the Godhead. By the way, the phrase Holy Spirit, capital H, capital S, is only used one time in your Bible. It's in Luke 11, 13. If you being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give the Holy Spirit to them which ask? And in that aspect, that capital H, capital S Spirit, that's the only time where that title is used. The title, the name, Holy Ghost, is used 90 times. And what this signifies is that in the entering in of that New Testament time, the Holy Ghost, who was behind the scenes working in those prophets, working in those men of God, working in arranging and working behind the scenes in a lot of things, When he is brought out as an individual in the New Testament, he's given the name Holy Ghost, okay? When he is shown as an individual, he's Holy Ghost. When he is shown in how, again, what I have here, it's that spirit working in, through, or for a person in a spiritual way, he's called the Holy Spirit. And so there, that signifying, again, separates that out and gives just a little more detail of this person of the Holy Ghost, which is, at times, especially in our Baptist circles, we don't like to delve into that, and we might shy away from it just because of charismatic influences, and you've been in the Middle Eastern areas and those areas where the Charismatic Church is really, not Middle Eastern, but Eastern Europe, okay? They've really grabbed hold because those are charismatic people, right? And so they grab hold of those gifts of the Holy Spirit and all that and the false uses of the tongues and all that nonsense. And so I've seen it where our circles will tend to shy away from that type of teaching of the Holy Ghost. But really, he's as much a part of the Godhead as Jesus Christ, co-equal in glory, co-equal in majesty and power, but different in working and responsibility and how they work within a person, all right? Bringing them to salvation, sanctifying them in salvation, keeping them until the day of redemption, all of those things. And so how do we signify, though, that this is the Holy Ghost? Well, if you notice the last three words, as he will, Every other place where you see the capital S Spirit spoken of, and it's speaking of Jesus Christ, or it's speaking of the Father, it'll call that Spirit an It. Okay? It'll refer to that Spirit as It. The Spirit of the Father, It, does this. The Spirit of Christ, It, does that. But whenever it's signifying that it is the person of the Holy Ghost, Again, it just drops in a heap, showing that person of the Holy Ghost. And that's just something that I've begun being able to discern throughout, and it really, it again, it catalogs the work of the Holy Ghost just even that much more. And those gifts of the Spirit, those gifts that are given, you go up to verse three, wherefore I give to you to understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed, and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. And so it's referring to the Holy Ghost now throughout this, and the Spirit, the diversities of gifts, the same Spirit, it's the Holy Ghost being spoken of there. And so just again, a little more accuracy, a little more dropping this in here. If you look at Luke 3.22, we're not going to take the time, but It's written there in your little pamphlet. If you look at Luke 3.22 and Matthew 3.16 in conjunction, it's where Jesus is being baptized and the dove comes down. In one case, it says it's the Spirit of God descending like a dove. In the other case, it says it's the Holy Ghost descending. So in that, there are times where it says the Spirit of God, and it is speaking of that third person of the Godhead. I'm not going to go ahead and put a blanket statement that says the Spirit of God being spoken of is always that third person of the Godhead, because there's other places where it's like, okay, well, this is something that Jesus Christ does in a person, and it's referring to the Spirit of God, so that is Jesus Christ in that aspect. Remembering that these three are one. The Father is in Him, He is in the Father, the Holy Ghost is working in the entirety of the Godhead. Now, even there in Colossians 2.9, I think it is, "...and in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." How is it? Well, there's one Spirit. It's the Spirit of God. But where the Holy Ghost steps out from behind the scene and takes the lead role, it'll be Him in one aspect of that Spirit of God. Where the father is stepping out behind the scene and taking that lead role in the action that's being done, that'll be the father taking that action of the Spirit of God. And the same thing with the whole, with Jesus Christ. When he steps out from behind the scenes and takes that step and stands there as that lead role, okay? And so these are just some really simple things. If you go down through these, start cross-referencing all of this. Look at the references that I have there. This is no by means at all a full study of this at all. But this is just kind of a primer to say, hey, why don't you look behind this door for just a little bit and just kind of see what you find. you might find some gold there, you know? My hope is that I can be a stepladder for not only my people, but yourselves, to be able to see farther than I can, all right? Psalm 119, 99, and 100, both those verses speak of knowing more than your teachers and knowing more than the ancients. Why? Because his testimonies are my meditation. And I understand more than my teachers because of the Word of God and studying on the Word of God and those things. And so it's a principle which is a safe principle. It's a biblical principle to be able to look deeper into the Word of God and discern these things by the leading of God. And as you said last night, brother, you're not going to learn this in Bible college. But these are some of the things. Some of these basic things is what God really showed me on the backside of the desert. When He took me 4,000 miles from home and locked down the entirety of the world, He set me on that backside of the desert to teach me. He did that with Moses. He did that with Paul. He did that with Jesus Christ Himself. And I believe every man of God that God is going to use at all, He sets him on the backside of the desert from time to time. And it's a time of reflection. You know, it might've been, your back to the desert might've been a short stop right there in front of that doorstep when that service was going on, brother. You know, just a time of reflection and learning one-on-one time with God and dealing with those things. You know what? I think we're going to take a pause here, all right? We've been going for, honestly, about an hour and 20 minutes, all right? Y'all have been good. Your children have been tremendous, okay? We're going to take a pause, maybe a 5-10 minute break, and then I'm going to go for just probably 20 minutes and explain the rest of this. I didn't even get to the others, and I'll give those to you, and we can discuss them briefly. I wanted to go down through some of these things because, as I said, these things have been helpful for some people to say, okay, everything in the King James Bible is intentional. It's not just the old way of talking. And what I should do, rather than making it easier to read, I should figure out how to read it. And then all of a sudden they find the word of God reading them. Because it's a discerner in the thoughts of the tense of the heart. So we'll take 10 minutes and we'll, if you need a break, nobody needs a break, we'll just keep going. But it's 11.30 now, so if you need to use the restroom or anything, you're very welcome to. Okay, starting back up again. Let's look at that last inner third of your page there. And I'm gonna go down through a couple of these very briefly. This is something that when I began looking at every word and every spelling and every aspect of everything in the Bible as accurate, I began seeing, oh, there's some subtle nuances there that I didn't know were there before. The first thing I have here is all way and all ways. Okay? And this is something that is very precious when you consider the implication of specifically Matthew 28, 20. But let's look at this here, allway. It's used 23 times in your King James Bible. So it's not an isolated word. And it isn't just another way to spell always. Although if you look, in something like the Oxford English Dictionary. That's a good tool for some study because what it does is it'll show examples of literature throughout time periods, like 1452 and 1783. This is how this word was used and defined this way in that time period. And so it gives you a better understanding of, okay, the King James translators that had a perfect understanding of Greek and Hebrew and English and Latin and all the other languages too, what would they have thought that that word meant when they translated into that? Because our modern languages have been dumbed down so much. And so with that concept, the topic I have here, every word of the pure Cambridge text of the King James Bible is accurate and was interpreted by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost to exactly represent the original languages in English. And I wanna smooth something over just real quickly. I don't believe in double inspiration. I don't believe in double inspiration. But the word inspiration is used two times in your Bible. It's used in 2 Timothy 3.16, all scriptures given by inspiration of God, and it's profitable. And what's the first thing it's profitable for? Doctrine. And so every word of God is profitable for doctrine. There's not a word in this Bible, including in the genealogies. We know a lady, a pastor's wife up in Wellsville, who was born again while reading through the genealogies. Because the Holy Ghost unlocked her understanding of it, that these were individuals that God recorded, and that God worked in their lives, and all her teaching and training that she'd received growing up in a Christian home about those families, and she believed it, and saved her in just reading the genealogies, okay? And so those things are unique and precious, you know? But if all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, The man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. Well, then all scripture is profitable. Every bit of it. There's not a bit of it that isn't profitable. And Job 32.8 is the other place. It says, and there is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. One thing we have to understand about inspiration, in 1611, when somebody died, they expired. That was the common term for somebody dying is they expired. So what happened when they expired? They would breathe out. That was their last breath, okay? Inspiration is breathing in. Now, in order for God to inspire, where does he have to be then? Not outside of you breathing on you, but within you breathing in the understanding, okay? It's just one small aspect of it, all right? But when you look at that, that inspiration, according to Job 32.8, The inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. If you ever receive any understanding from God on any bit of scripture, according to the Bible, God inspired that understanding in you, okay? And so when I say I don't believe in double inspiration, I know that there's, you know, down in Pensacola, Florida, all that mess down there, they'll, you know, grab hold of that, and that's like the battle cry against it, you know, throughout our circles. But what I do believe is that those men understood what was going on in order to properly interpret and understand this Bible that has been given to us. And so they were given understanding by God, and the Bible calls that an inspiration, giving understanding. They didn't have apostolic authority, they didn't have that type of ability to be able to lay out doctrines and all of this, but I believe God was in them, guiding that work to give us a complete Bible, a perfect Bible. And that's just where I stand. And again, you don't gotta take that. And we'll go home as friends if you don't take that. I have a lot of good friends of mine, good brethren of mine, that don't take that same stance, and that's okay. I understand mine is a little bit further. But what I have found is the deeper I wade into this, the more I find the holiness of God in it. And hopefully we've seen some of that today. So, all of that to say, always use 23 times What All Way means is it shows the generally known character of a person or thing. It also references to something being continually done. The difference between All Way and All Ways is that All Ways is each and every instance, every single time, this is going to happen. Now, when you strike a match on a box, it doesn't always light. But if all the conditions are proper and right, it is always going to light. It's always going to cause a fire. You put fire and gasoline fumes together, and if the conditions are right, it's always going to explode. That's just what it does. And so with that understanding of the difference between that, let's look at a couple of passages in relation to this in particular. Go to 2 Samuel 9. This is fascinating to me. 2 Samuel 9. We're looking at Mephibosheth. All right, right here at verse seven, and again, we don't gotta give a lot of background, because we've all probably got a pretty good foundation and understanding of this passage here. It says in verse seven, 2 Samuel 9, and David said unto him, fear not, for I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father, and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually. Okay, notice the very end statement there. Thou shalt eat bread at my table continually. Now look at verse 10. Thou therefore, and thy sons and thy servants, shalt till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits that thy master's son may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, thy master's son, shalt eat bread all the way at my table. Now Ziba had 15 sons and 20 servants. Now, what your Bible just did was defined the word all way for you. It's the same exact statement, speaking of the same exact thing. And here in verse seven, it says, thou shalt eat bread at my table continually. At the end of verse 10, it says, shalt eat bread all way at my table. All way means continually. Now, he wasn't going to be sitting at that table every single moment of every single day, continually, always eating bread. But he had a place at that table that he could always go to. And wherever and whenever there was bread at that table, he had a place there. Okay? Always. Now, to solidify this even further, your Bible gives you a little more clarity, verse 13. So Bephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem, for he did eat continually at the king's table. Okay? Now this is just one instance, but where you can clearly see, okay, alway means continually. It's a continual thing. It's just gonna alway continue on. Now, in relation to that, let's look and see in the book of Titus what Paul says. Titus 1.12. We understand that Titus was at Crete. The Cretans weren't always good people, okay? So let's look at this. Where are we at? Titus 1 and verse 12. He's speaking of the Cretans here, says, one of themselves, even a prophet of their own said, so this is a Cretan speaking about Cretans. The Cretans are all way liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. Now, if that word was always, that would be a paradox, which would not work. Because if every Cretan is always a liar, and he says all Cretans are always liars, how can you tell if he's telling the truth or not? If he's telling the truth, well, then he's actually lying, and it doesn't work. But if he's lying to you, you're not gonna believe him anyway, okay? You understand the problem there. But your Bible is accurate, and it says the Cretans are always liars. They're just continually liars. It's their general character that they're going to lie to you. Now, Brother Paul Deku is working down in Fiji right now. I don't know if you know the Dekus down there, Kiribati. That's not how you pronounce it, but that's how I pronounce it. And there's a lot of people from the nation of India that have moved into the Fiji Islands to work there. The government actually brought them over to do a lot of work there and to help out in those things. And they've just kind of established themselves in the islands. All right. And I was talking with him the last time they were here. They're actually here last year for our missions conference. And we were talking about some of the things dealing with them. And he says, you know, we love the Indians, but you can't trust a word that comes out of their mouth. He says that they just, They just lie to you. It just kind of falls out of them. It's just, you just, you know that they're going to lie to you. And I said, ah, brother, let's go to, let's go to Titus chapter one. And I showed him that and I explained this to him. And he says, yeah, the Indians are all way liars. You just know that if an Indian is telling you a story and he gives you 10 details, nine of them are lies. And there's one that's a truth. And so you see how this works, all right? Now, with that understanding, go look at the other 21 places this word is used. Specifically, Matthew 28, 20, and then we'll move on to the next part here, all right? Matthew 28, 20. This is Missions Conference, this is very applicable, I believe. Starting verse 19, go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even until the end of the world. Always. He is continually with you. You have a place at the feet of Jesus continually. And Jesus is gonna be with you continually. Why? Because that's just his character. That's just who he is. God's got good character. God is a good character, all right? And so those things are just a little bit more precious, you know? It's not just always with you, but he is always with you. It goes more than just the physical connection or the location of Jesus, but it speaks more to who he is rather than what he does. He is always with us, you know. And so those things are neat, all right? And then you can go on, you can look at the rest there. The next thing is thoroughly and throughly. And this is one thing where some King James Bibles will change thoroughly, or they'll change throughly to thoroughly. I don't know if you've noticed that in some cases. It's a bit of a frustration. One of them is in Psalm 51, and that, Psalm 51, verse two. He says, what is it? Purge me throughly, I think it is. But regarding this, throughly, it's used 12 times, and the word thoroughly is only used two times. I'm going to give an example that'll give you an instant understanding of this thing, and the difference between thoroughly and throughly. If this building were to catch on fire, and it were to be thoroughly burnt, the only thing left standing would be the block foundation. That would be it. It was thoroughly burnt. Completely, utterly consumed, nothing left. But if this building were thoroughly burnt, the fire would have worked its way all the way through the building. There's not a room that would not have been touched by that fire. The fire would have touched every bit downstairs, the counseling room that was backstairs, the sanctuary, the foyer, the upstairs classroom. I mean, everything throughly burnt. It's still standing, but fire touched the entire thing. Does that make sense? Does that make sense to you guys? Now, with this understanding, let's go to... You know what, I'm gonna let you look those up on your own. I'm gonna let you look those up on your own. Look those up. Look up 2 Timothy 3, 17, Psalm 51, 2, Genesis 11, 3. Look up for thoroughly Exodus 21, 19, and 2 Kings 11, 18. Okay, look those up on your own. I will tell you this much about 2 Timothy 3, 17. It is that thing where all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. 17 is that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. Now, if you were thoroughly furnished unto all good works by the Bible, That would mean that my wife could have learned how to play the piano from the pages of this Bible. That would be a thorough instruction, okay? Every aspect of your life taught in every small detail from this book, but there's no instruction on how to play the piano here. But what is there is that you are thoroughly instructed. Every aspect of your life that needs to be touched in order to minister in the word of God, comes from the word belt. And that's where that subtle difference lies. You can dig into those things later. This next thing is very precious to me. Nigh and near. They do not mean the same thing. Near shows proximity, but it's relative. I am near to you, Brother Larry, as opposed to that light post out there in the parking lot. We are near the town of Shingle House, as opposed to the town of Olean. It's two minutes to get into Shingle House, a half hour to get to Olean. Okay? It's all relative, all right? We are near to the sun as opposed to the planet Pluto, okay? So that is a very broad statement, but nigh is something different. Nigh means that there is nothing between, all right? There is absolutely nothing between you and that thing, okay? If you all want to turn around and look at my wife and my son, Austin. God arranged that perfectly, that's great, okay? Now, I'm near my wife right now. But there's all these pews and these people between me and her. But you look at my son, the only thing between them is their clothes. They are nigh one to another, okay? Now consider this, and we're not gonna turn, but just consider this, because you know the passage. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your heart, you sinners. Purify your hands. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded. Weep and mourn. What's he saying there? Get everything out of the way between you and God that you know about. Draw nigh to Him. Don't just come near Him. Draw nigh to Him. Get that stuff out of the way that you know is between you and God. Get that out of the way. And then what does it say? Then God will draw nigh to you, which means there's more that you can't see. There's more that you can't see between you and God, and you can't do a thing about it. but he's gonna step in and he'll move that out of the way so that you can be nigh to him, okay? You see how precious that is? How wonderful that is? And nigh is used 100 times, near 211 times, you know, study those things out in its fullest. It's beautiful. It is a beautiful study. That right there has transformed some of my preaching entirely. Just that understanding between difference between nigh and near, it's tremendous. The next things all I have there is testify, testimony, witness, and record. They are different. It's not all speaking of the same thing, okay? And they're just defined there for you. I'm just winding this down here for us today. To and unto. This is something that I studied for years and years and years and years. And probably, well, the four years that I've really been considering the King James Bible in its fullness. And I have not been able to discern. I knew there was a difference between to and unto, and I couldn't figure it out. It just didn't make sense. Paul Scott, who's an author, he's a missionary in Vietnam, he put on a blog post one time about this very topic, and it just all of a sudden, bam, dropped right into place. All right, so let's look at this. To is expressing direction, okay? In the direction of towards. Unto delineates delivery. Okay? Let's just think of it this way. Somebody mails a letter to you. They drop it in the mailbox. They have made that motion to mail that letter to you. Sometimes the mail doesn't always get to you, though. Okay? But if that letter has the proper postage, it goes through the postal system properly, doesn't get lost in the mail, they've mailed it to you, and it goes through that whole process, gets into your mailbox, you pull the thing out, open it up and read the letter. It was mailed unto you. Okay? It was delivered to you. And it was delivered unto you. All right? It made it to your hands. Now consider this. For unto us, a child is born. Unto us a son is given. It wasn't just in the direction. He delivered it. Delivered it right to you. Why? Because the word is nigh thee. The word is nigh thee. Oh, that's good too. Nigh, nothing between. Where? Why? Because it's in your heart. He put it in your heart. Why? Because the son of God lighteth, it's that true light which lighteth every man which cometh into the world. Every single man, every single woman that's ever born has the light of God in them. And the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly. It's there to search, and the Holy Ghost is there to guide that searching, and we were talking about that last night, of those things. So, at any rate, it's expressing direction towards and reaching a place, point, or goal. In relation to this, we have Jonah, and we'll turn to Jonah, and I think this is where we're gonna end it today. We might not continue on the rest of this, but turn to Jonah, if you can find that quickly. If I can find it quickly, that's the next thing, too. As I said, I have a hard time with... No, it's past it. Oh, good night. See, this is just the thing. There it is. God does those things to keep me humble, to make me humble. That implies that I already am humble, and that's... I'm the most humble man I know. All right, look at, where were we at? Jonah 1. Jonah 1, look at this, verse 2. God tells Jonah, we know the story of Jonah, tells him to go to Nineveh. Does he go? No, he goes to Tarshish, the completely opposite way, right? Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city and cry against it for the wickedness. Their wickedness has come up before me. Did God know that Jonah was not going to go? Absolutely he did. And that's why he said, go to Nineveh. Now turn to Jonah chapter three and look at verse two. After everything he had put Jonah through, he then says, arise, go unto Nineveh. that great city and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee." It shifts. Why? Because God knew he was then going to go. He was gonna be delivered into that city of Nineveh, all right? Now you take those things, and as I said, unto us a child is born is precious. It shows you Jesus Christ in a little bit clearer light, and it just, it magnifies. the preciousness of Christ and all these things. And study that out. Get into the book of Leviticus and apply the words to and unto. It's very interesting in some of those things, all right? I've heard it said just recently that the book of Leviticus is a drudgery to read through, but it's rich if you study it. All right, study it in light of these principles, these precepts that we've laid down here today, precept upon precept, and let the Lord teach you in that. I think that's all I really want to say. I will mention the purpose of Paul's epistles on the back. Paul is the apostle to the Gentiles, okay? I've got scriptures listed there. And as such, his job as a Pharisee that knew that law perfectly, was to teach the Gentile world the law of God, because we didn't know it. We didn't grow up in that culture. The Jews at that time, they grew up in it. They knew it. They understood all those things. There was Jewish influence because of the different synagogues throughout the regions, but those Gentiles, they didn't have that. So Paul's job was to explain that Old Testament to the New Testament Gentiles, which includes us. As such, when you look at Paul's writings and you see him say anything about blood, sacrifice, offerings, altar, anything like that, he has something specific in mind. Something out of the law he has in mind and consider for this I have this written here This this is a perfect example of this Romans 12 1 I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice Holy acceptable unto the God which is your reasonable service now? There was only two living sacrifices You look in the entirety of the law There was only two sacrifices that went to the altar and left alive every other sacrifice was killed The first one is that scapegoat All right, now that scapegoat is Jesus Christ. All right, the sin is laid upon him, the hand is laid upon him, the sin is laid upon that one, and it's led into the wilderness by a fit man, okay? That doesn't picture you in your life for Christ. But if you look here in Leviticus 14, let's turn to Leviticus 14 just real quick. And this is where the book of Leviticus really becomes fascinating as well. Leviticus 14. We'll start right at verse one. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. Now, what does leprosy a picture of? Sin, throughout the Bible. It's a picture of sin. So this was the offering that was to be made in the day of the leper's cleansing. He had been cleansed from his leprosy, and he presented himself to the priest, and he was going to be declared clean by the high priest. Okay? Look at this. He shall be brought to the priest, and the priest shall go forth out of the camp, and the priest shall look, and behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper, then shall the priest command to take for him, that is to be cleansed, two birds alive and clean." Two birds. Cedarwood and scarlet and hyssop all significant all three of those things I believe were there at the cross at the crucifixion because you see that in all those those Offerings and sacrifices that picture Jesus Christ that cedarwood the scarlet the hyssop that they're all there. Okay, and And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel, over running water what flowed forth water and blood. As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedarwood, and the scarlet, and hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over running water. and shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose in the open field. Now, what is Paul saying in Romans 12.1? I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. That living sacrifice of that bird, which was taken, dipped in the blood of the slain bird, and then released into an open field. So that whenever an Israelite saw a bird with blood on it, they knew, oh, a leper's been declared clean. And so we too present our bodies as a living sacrifice to bear the blood of Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world, to show this leper's been declared clean. Okay? Wholly acceptable unto God, which is a reasonable service. And this is just one of the places, okay? When you look at the writings of Paul, you can't figure out what he's talking about, go to the law. When you're reading in the law and you can't figure out what it's talking about, go to writings of Paul. Because they explain each other back and forth continually through the whole thing. If you look at the book of Leviticus in light of that, it's all going to just... Man, it's just gonna drop right into place for you. It's beautiful. It's really wonderful. So that's about it. That's about all I wanna go through today. On the back is just how I use the Bible to define Bible words. It's basically my method of Bible study. I'm just looking the word up everywhere it's used in the Bible and just reading through those things, laboring with God in those things and letting him show you, okay, this is what I'm talking about. with this, all right? And it's really, it's great, you know, what he'll show you after that. Any closing comments or anything? We'll wrap this up here. Any thoughts? Well, praise the Lord. Any questions? Probably, but tell them to the Lord, too. All right, well, I'll go ahead and I'll