All right, I believe we're gonna start in Proverbs chapter 20 today. So get your Bibles out, turn to Proverbs chapter 20. We're gonna do a little study this morning on something that we have covered before. This may be brand new, this may be building line upon line, and it may have been completely missed by you the last time around. But the Lord, I believe, has laid on my heart, so we're gonna go over some of these things again. Wednesday night after Brother Mike Bat preached, I got up and I spoke a little bit to the spirits in the Word of God, dealing with specifically the capital S spirits. We're gonna cover some of that again today. But what we're gonna be looking at is one of the the benefits of having the clarity and understanding and really the clearness of the English of the King James Bible. Being able to rightly divide the word of truth by the word of truth. All right. Now understanding that when we divide numbers, we have to divide numbers according to the laws of math. Two divided by two is one, according to the laws of math. In order to rightly divide the word of truth, we must divide the word of truth according to the laws of God. And so what are the laws of God? What is the law of God? Well, it is that precept upon precept. Jesus spoke of the law as being essentially the entirety of the Old Testament, all right? He spoke of those things in the Psalms as being the law. And in the Psalms, it says, lo, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me. When you see something doctrinally, what you're looking at is you are looking at the law of God. And that law of God is that schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ. And one of the majesties of the King James Bible is that it rightly divides that word of truth accurately. Think about this, think of Hebrews 12, or Hebrews 4.12. It says, for the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit. All right, and that dividing asunder of soul and spirit, what does that do? What the Bible is essentially telling you is it's beginning to show you the soul and the spirit are two different things. It divides them asunder, separates them entirely. end of the joints and the marrow is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. It continues on from there. But what we're looking at today is the spirit. We're not going to delve 100% deeply into this thing, but I'm going to kind of glaze across the surface and I'm going to either reinforce the foundation that has been laid or we will be laying foundational blocks for you. Why these are foundational is these principles and precepts that we're gonna look at, as you apply these throughout the Word of God, you're gonna find patterns that bring clarity to sometimes confusing passages. We're gonna be able to begin to divide the Godhead out. We're gonna be able to see, by the end of this, we're gonna be looking at Jesus Christ and his own personal spirit, and we're gonna see that golden thread come to the surface many times throughout this study. And ultimately, what I want you to see is Jesus Christ in the volume of the book. That is the goal. That ought to be the goal of any preacher by any man that stands up behind this pulpit, is that we would see Jesus in the volume of the book. Without Jesus, what was it, Spurgeon said, no Jesus in your sermon, sir. Shut up and go home until you have something worth preaching. If you don't have Jesus Christ in your message, that is no message from God. That is a message from that spirit of antichrist, which God gave me a couple of little things on that, just even in the Sunday school hour. Brother Dale mentioned something and something sparked in my mind, it's like, oh, yeah, so I jotted some things down. We might look at that, I don't know. Proverbs chapter 20, this is where we're gonna start. Right now we're looking at the thing of a lowercase s spirit. What I want you to understand about your King James Bible is that when you see capitalizations, it is important. Is it not an important thing whether God is capitalized or lowercase? It signifies whether it is speaking of deity or whether it is speaking of a false god, a devil, okay? And then, obviously, we've studied that out before, too, there in Deuteronomy 32, where he talks about them worshiping gods, devils, okay? And so he connects devils and those small g gods. So this capitalization is very important. It many times will show a title. It'll show a proper name. One thing that's very interesting, though, according to the laws of English, You do not capitalize personal pronouns. He, him, she, her, you don't capitalize those. That would be grammatically incorrect, right? But yet we would do that out of homage to that name. I understand that. But what that's really doing is it's breaking outside of the grammatical correctness of the word of God. There is no diminishing of the Godhead whatsoever to write a lowercase h, he. Maybe you've never heard that, you probably disagree with that and I'm okay with it because your Bible doesn't do it. You learned it from someplace other than the Bible. Our speech bereath us. So much that we say and so much that we do proves that we didn't learn it from the Bible. We've learned it from man, learned it from a commentary, learned it from religion, all right? It's just an interesting thing that the Lord has really brought to light in these last days. Proverbs 20. Look at verse 27. This is dealing specifically with the spirit of man, all right? This is dealing with the personal spirit within a man. Now, what is a spirit? This is the great question, all right? Brother John Hall is coming up on three years of studying that thing, and you're narrowing it down. You're getting an understanding. God is instructing him on what a spirit is. And the thing that I love the most about that, I'm not elevating John Hall whatsoever, all right? He is a worm just like I. There's nothing good in us except Jesus Christ. But one thing that I absolutely love, and I will make mention of this, is that God has laid this on his heart to study, and he hasn't stopped because God hasn't given him the answer yet. And here it is coming on three years. When God gives you something to study, don't consider it done when you've looked at it for a day. Maybe you get a decent answer. Don't consider that study over. File that thing at the front of your mind so that everywhere where you're reading in the word of God, that thing is right there, and if you see that word pop up again, oh, here's another place where that is. This gives me more understanding, all right? That's how God teaches you. You have an unction from the Holy One and you know all things, and the same anointing which you've received of Him abideth in you, and need not that any man teach you. For that same anointing which is in you teacheth you all things. Okay, that anointing is on the inward parts and it comes from the Holy One. It comes from Jesus Christ himself. All right, what is that anointing? What's that anointing oil? It's the Holy Ghost. He's in you, guiding you, directing you, showing you things, turning up the lamps on that candlestick so you can see the Godhead more clearly. All right, my prayer is today we see a little more of that oil and a little more lightning. All right, verse 27. says the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly. What this starts out here, why I started here, is this specifically shows the spirit of man, all right? So, there is a spirit in man. And the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Job 32, eight. When you're looking at that, in correlation with this verse here, the spirit of man is used by God. There's a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. If you have any understanding at all, it's because God has inspired that understanding in you. Inspiration is not breathing out, that's expiration, okay? Inspiration is breathing in, it's not a, it's a, okay? Where does God have to be in order to breathe in inspiration? In you, okay? That's why he talks about, Paul talks about God is in you of a truth. Right? If you have any understanding of the word of God at all that has come from God, it's because God has inspired understanding in you. Don't be afraid of that word. That is a perfectly accurate word. It's the right word for that. It doesn't say illumination. I heard a great man of God, man of God that I held in high regard, correct his Bible. He said, no, that word, a better word for that is inspiration, or not inspiration, illumination. A better word for that is illumination. A better word. I'm not smarter than those men, but apparently he thought he was. I can't do that. I cannot look at this Bible and say a better word would be, because I don't believe there's any better words than what's in here to perfectly match either the Old Testament language or the New Testament language. It's the perfect representation. This is a concept that has been lost. It wasn't always a foreign concept, but with the advent of the Bible college, that has really taken away the individual walk and study of a believer. Relying on man to instruct in the things of God rather than relying on God to instruct. That's where we're at today. And what it turns into is a pre-formatted course of study, and a pre-formatted course of study of other writers, and studying this man's writing, and that man's writing, and this man's writings, and this commentary, and that commentary, and that lexicon, and that lexicon, and putting all this together and showing, hey, this is how you learn the Bible, rather than getting alone with God and your Bible, and just believing what he wrote, and test it. You see something in the Bible and you say, is that what that's saying? Run it through the Bible. Get a search engine, pull out your Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. I love that concordance. I hate the definition, but I love the concordance. And you go through that thing and you look everywhere that word or phrase is used in your King James Bible and see if your thought, the thought that popped in your mind, see if that thought is solid. If it shows time and time and time again throughout the word of God, hey, you know what? You just found a doctrine of God. You don't have to go to, as some have, Dr. Doodledigger and look up his concordance and see if, or his commentary, and see if it's correct. Don't double-check yourself with commentaries. Are they not men with like passions, such as you? Do they have any more of the Holy Ghost than you? If you're born again, no. Do they have any more access to the things of God than you? No. If anything, you have a little bit of an advantage because you've got search features and you can search a word through the entire Bible. They couldn't do that. Most of them couldn't do that at that time, all right? And so that's kind of an aside. But the spirit of man, we're looking here. The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord searching. So what does your spirit do? What is your spirit given to you to do? One thing it does is it searches. That searching that you're doing, you who are seeking the Lord for assurance of your salvation, it is your spirit that is searching. Now, if your spirit is unclean, is that gonna be able to find spiritual things? Is it gonna be able to find holy things? No, you're gonna be finding unclean things. You're gonna be searching in the wrong places of your heart, okay? But if God can cleanse that spirit with his word, that washing of water by the word, being renewed in the spirit of your mind, he's able to take that and use it as a candle to search all the inward parts of the belly. It's that thing that goes on in 1 Corinthians 14, wherein the preaching of the word is going on, and that stirring up of the heart is going on, the secrets of the heart are being made manifest. They're able to be seen. Okay? That's what that spirit within you does. All right? Your spirit, it's your personal spirit. It's that inward nature of mankind. Okay? It's the part of man that really directs the mind. Your spirit directs how you think. It filters that stuff between your heart and your mind Your imaginations will come up in your heart and you'll come up with some wicked imaginations And if your spirit is holy if it has been cleansed by the watching of the water of the word of god It's going to recognize that thing as an unholy thought an unclean thought an evil thought and it's going to cast that thing out It's going to cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of god bringing into captivity every thought unto the obedience of christ Not letting your thoughts run wild. You know that's a wicked thing, let your thoughts run wild. The thoughts of your heart running wild, that is a wicked thing. God says, bring that thing into captivity. Rule over your own spirit, okay? Now, but it's to search all the inward parts of the belly. Go to Zechariah 12 now. And again, easiest way to find Zechariah, go to Matthew and run back. It's just Malachi, then Zechariah. Zechariah chapter 12. We're gonna look at verse one specifically. Tell me, where does a man get his spirit? Zechariah chapter 12, verse one. The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretches forth the heavens and layeth the foundation of the earth and formeth the spirit of man within him. Who formed the spirit of man within him? The Lord of Israel. It's the Lord. He is the one that formed your spirit within you. James, where is it? In James 2.26, it talks about the body without the spirit is dead. When Jesus gave up the ghost, his soul and spirit, and that's all a ghost is, you don't need to look at that thing and think, especially this time of year when we're coming up on Halloween, thinking, oh, that's a terrifying thing. I just read a thing, I can't remember where I saw it, wherein people were kind of demeaning the title Holy Ghost because it was saying that it was scaring the children. And so rather than using ghost, they used spirit. The only reason you have that thought in your mind is that spirit of antichrist, which wants you to go away from the word of God, okay? You look at the word of God, look at that Holy Ghost. There's nothing scary about that except that he searches you. He's in you. He's reproving the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment. And so what is, if you're afraid of that Holy Ghost, it might be a good thing. Okay, that's the fear of the Lord. But consider this though. God formed the spirit of man within him. That spirit within you was formed by God. Why? Well, we just saw it in Proverbs chapter 20, to search all the inward parts of the belly. Do you realize even the way God made you on the inward parts, your spiritual nature, God made you that way so that you even had the capability of seeking him. Without Him, you would be nothing. Without Him, you would not be able to even remotely begin to seek after God. Man in his thoughts is altogether wicked. There's nothing within you that desires God. If there's any desire for God in you, it's because God has put that desire in you. Do you realize that desire comes with that call of God and that call went into all the earth? And God has called everyone to repentance. God's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. That's His will, is that all should come to repentance. And He's done everything that He needs to do, and given you, we even sang it this morning in the choir song. What more can He say than to you have been said? He said it all in His word. What furthermore do you need to believe Him? Do you need some book written about it? Do you need some commentary written about it? Or maybe you ought to just get alone with this great God of heaven and let him teach you. Or is that too scary of a thought that God could teach you all alone? Because then that means that there really is a God. Ever considered that? Maybe some people don't want God to teach them. It's much like the Israelites telling Moses, Don't let God talk to us. You talk to us. We don't want to hear from God. God says they've well spoken that thing. They would rather hear from man than from God. They call them a stick-necked generation. Stiff-necked. And we've studied that out just recently. What is it to be stiff-necked? You won't turn. You're forward, you're looking away from God, and you will not turn. Your neck is stiff. You've hardened your heart, and you've stiffened your neck, and you will not turn. But yet he calls you, he says, turn you at my reproof. Turn. Repent and believe the gospel, he says. It's that turn. And so, you know, we get a little bit of this indication of our spirit. It's within man, it searches. God is the one that formed that thing. Let's go to 1 Thessalonians 5. I wanna look there just real briefly. 1 Thessalonians 5. And I just learned this the other day. If you're looking for the Thessalonians and the Timothys and Titus, they're all grouped right together. All the Ts are right together in one batch. I love that, it has helped me. Even I get lost sometimes in the pages in the books. Okay. 1 Thessalonians 5 and verse 23 dissects mankind into a trinity. shows you the three aspects of you that God looks at and deals with. Look at this, and the very God of peace sanctify you wholly, all right? So he wants to sanctify you wholly. What is it to be sanctified? It's to be set apart as holy, H-O-L-Y, to set apart from everything else, to set apart for a specific purpose, yes, and that is to be holy, because be holy for I am holy. But he says this, he sanctify you wholly, W-H-O-L-L-Y. That means the entire being, you in its entirety. He says, and I pray God, your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Doctrinally, we could dissect this quite a bit, but for the purpose of our study here today, again, we see the division of soul and spirit. To look at Jesus and say he is just a dichotomy where he had his body and then he had his soul and spirit together as one, that doesn't work. Because your Bible dissects soul and spirit as separate, all right? And God has a specific purpose of that. It's to search, that's the purpose. He formed that thing in you. Go to Proverbs chapter 16 now. We're just gonna bounce back and forth a little bit on this. Then we're gonna look at the lowercase s spirit of Jesus Christ. Proverbs 16, verse two. says all the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes. And why is that? Why is that? It's because our pride puts a filter, right? Those of you who are involved in photography, you understand if you put certain filters, it changes the mood of the picture. You can put a filter on that completely eliminates the UV glare off of water so you can photograph water without that shine. Okay? You can put a filter on that makes the whole day look dreary and moody like it is today, overcast and cloudy. You can put a certain filter on that brightens everything up. And what you're doing is you're looking at the same scenery, but you're putting a different filter on so you perceive it differently. Okay? Your pride will rise up, and you looking at your own heart through your pride, it's going to put a cherry countenance on that thing. and you will not be able to see yourself clearly. You're not gonna be able to see yourself as God sees you. And you can't even set your pride aside. Do you know why that is? It's because as soon as the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost, starts searching you on the inward parts, you're gonna reach for that pride and it's gonna put that wall back up and, okay, we're gonna calm that back down. Why? Because it's a terrifying thing to have God search you. It's a terrifying thing to have him begin exposing you in the secrets of your own heart. It's terrifying. Oh, but it's good. And that's why in Job 33, it talks about God hiding pride from a man. If God would hide pride from a man, then will he see himself as God sees him. He has to completely hide that from you. And what's interesting, I've seen it happen. When God hides pride from a man and the Holy Ghost begins convicting them and begins reproving them of sin and of righteousness and of judgment, they get almost into a panic because they can't find their pride. They can't find it. They can't find that third leg of their stance. They can't find that cane to stable themselves. They can't find that wall to hide behind. They can't find that filter to hide out the secrets of their heart. They begin to panic, begin to get antsy and agitated and, oh, I just can't wait to get out. Or they be like our dog and cope by going to sleep. All right, we have a little Chihuahua, Jack Russell pug mix. Sweetest thing you'll ever meet. Just adores everybody, loves everybody. Hogwash, brother. She even loves you, all right? The whole point to that is when she's in a situation she doesn't really like, like maybe when Russell picks her up, lays her just like right here upside down, her paws are up in the air, she'll just, she'll just go to sleep. That's how she copes with bad situations. And we laugh about it, but we do the same thing. As soon as the spirit begins searching, we cope with that by going to sleep. Our body is just programmed to do that. That's that spirit of slumber. We prayed that thing wouldn't overtake people today. We pray. We pray hard for that thing. All right? Now, let's keep going in this. Let's look one last thing on the spirit of man. Go to Ecclesiastes 12. Should be the, it is, not should be, it is the right, the book right next to where you're at in Proverbs. Ecclesiastes 12, look at verse six. Again, relating to Zechariah 12, one, it said that God formed the spirit of man in him. Ecclesiastes 12.6 says this, wherever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, then shall the dust return to the earth. All right, so what is it speaking of? It's speaking of a person dying, okay? When the dust returns to the earth, it is that person, dust, returning unto dust, okay? Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Okay? When a person dies, their spirit goes back to God who gave him that spirit. Okay? That's why it says in James, the body without the spirit is dead. When that spirit leaves the body, dead. So what is the spirit? It's the part of you that searches, okay? It directs your thinking. It's the part of you that signifies that you have life. It's a thing that you have. Your spirit can be unclean, it can be clean, it can be holy, right? And the capitalization in your Bible is specific. When you look at a lowercase h, holy, it is an adjective. It's telling you, it's describing something as being holy, completely absent from sin. A lowercase s, spirit, is referring to the personal spirit within a person. Or, there's other places, we're not gonna look at these necessarily this morning. There are places where it is either an evil or an unclean spirit, okay? And it is a devil, all right? Those things are connected in the New Testament. Or it could be a devilish influence on someone, okay? That evil spirit that came from the Lord and was on Saul, we'll use that instance, okay? It came upon him. That was a devilish influence on him. It came upon Saul, but it came from God. It was a punishment from God. And remember, evil in your King James Bible, you look at this, it has that connotation of it's something that brings destruction. Your evil thoughts are destructive thoughts, it'll destroy you. An evil spirit from the Lord, it was sent to destroy. Those things that fell upon Job, they were evil things. When a tornado or a flood completely wipes out a town, it is a great evil that has come upon that town. Doesn't necessarily mean that it's sinful, but it has brought destruction. Okay? And so that'll help you with a lot of things, clearing up some of the fog of, but an evil spirit from God? Oh, that must've been translated wrong. No, no. It's God being God. It's God meeting out judgment. It's God doing what God does. He's God. You're not. Don't change his word. Don't correct it. Just believe for what it says. Try it. Test it. Prove it. and see if he doesn't pour out a blessing on you. I decided one time to do that, to try the word of God, to put it to the test. What would happen if I were to believe that every single word is perfect in this Bible and it shouldn't be changed at all? Right down to the letters and the capitalization, like what we're looking at this morning. What would happen? You know what happened? God poured out a blessing on me. I began seeing him in the volume of the book. I began seeing a part of God that I never knew existed. And it's been great, it's been a blessing. So, let's shift gears just a little bit. We're gonna now look at the personal spirit of Jesus Christ. Now, as a rule, in your King James Bible, when you find deity being spoken of, okay, and there is a spirit that is connected to that deity, but it's a lowercase s, everywhere in the pure Cambridge text of the King James Bible, that is speaking of the personal spirit of Jesus Christ. Okay, it's signifying the person and the work of Jesus Christ. Now you go to 1 John 5, 8, and you'll find, we'll start there, let's start there. That's a good place to start. 1 John 5, 8. Some of you will not have a lowercase s spirit here, and I'm not criticizing your Bible. I want you to understand that, okay? This is the difference between a pure Cambridge text of edition of the King James Bible and an Oxford text, all right? Those are the two main lines of texts. that the King James Bible went through. It was through Cambridge University and Oxford University. Cambridge had access to the personal notes of those King James translators. They had their own, the King James translators' own personal handwritten copies of that original King James Bible. They had access to the men themselves, the first couple of editions of the the additions of that King James Bible after its first printing, those 5,000 printing errors plus were introduced into the thing by Robert Barker, and I believe it was in 1629 when that first one took place, there was some of the actual translators that worked with Cambridge University to weed out those things, okay, and to work on that with them. And so there are many things that point to the fact that, okay, Cambridge had something going on there, all right? Now, 1 John 5, 8, it says, 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 in that place, And the common teaching in fundamentalism is that everywhere there is a capital S spirit in the King James Bible, it is speaking of the Holy Spirit. It's speaking of that third person of the Trinity, and that is who that is. That's what I was trained on. That's what every independent fundamental Baptist church preaches and teaches. It's what the Baptist colleges teach. It's what the commentaries say. It goes way back. And if you work that through your King James Bible and you follow that out, as we're gonna see here shortly, that quickly falls apart, okay? That quickly falls apart. But if that is the Holy Spirit, that third person of the Trinity, which I believe his title, his name is the Holy Ghost, 90 times that term is used in the King James Bible. Only one time is capital H, capital S Spirit, Holy Spirit used, okay? We're gonna dive into that in a little bit. But if that is the Holy Ghost, let's run it in context of what's being spoken of. Start at verse six. Speaking of Jesus Christ, there in verse five, the Son of God, this is He that came by water and blood. Okay, now that's not talking of His water baptism in the blood of His cross. How do we know that? Well, your Bible literally tells you that's how He came. He came by water and blood. Okay? What this is, again, is these are the tokens of Mary's virginity. This is the proof that Jesus was born of a virgin. She would not have had that cloth to lay under her as that marriage act was consummated. And if she was a virgin, there would be blood that would be on that cloth. That cloth was given to the father of the girl as proof that she went to the marriage altar as a maid, as a virgin. Okay? Deuteronomy 22 goes into that. And so right here, though, is the tokens of Mary's virginity, because she didn't have that. She did not have a child before Jesus was born. She had no sexual relations with any man before Jesus was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Ghost, as the word of God made flesh within that womb, okay? Now, let's follow on. This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by water and blood. What does it mean by water only? Well, in John chapter three, Jesus is speaking in Nicodemus, and he says of that one that is, you know, except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot see the kingdom of God. That water is that physical birth, because then he goes on and he says, that which is flesh is flesh, that which is spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said none of thee, ye must be born again. It's not enough to have a physical birth. Why because it's not by blood. It's not your bloodline. It's not the will of man. It's not it's not even uh, the will of the flesh You're born of the will of god That is when you're born again According to the will of god and god's not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance Okay, and so here again, this is speaking of his birth, that he wasn't born by water only, but by water and blood, showing the tokens of her virginity there. And it is the spirit that beareth witness, because the spirit is truth. Now what spirit is that? Well, that's the Holy Ghost bearing witness through the scriptures, okay? Now follow this. For there are three that bear record in heaven. To bear record, what is a record? It is an event, or it is happenings, or it is words that are recorded. Okay? A recorder at a court case. They'll be there, and they'll type on that little thing, and they're recording literally every word, syllable, everything that is spoken in that courtroom. Okay? And they'll read it back, and when the judge says, strike that from the record, taking it off of that record so that it's as if it had never happened. Hmm, that's what Jesus did for me. He struck that from the record for me, hallelujah. All right, anyhow, but that record, there are three that bear record in heaven. So there is a record in heaven, and there are three that are bearing that record. A record is something that's written down. This is speaking of the written word of God in heaven. Forever, O Lord, are thy words settled, where? In heaven. It's speaking of that written record. There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. All right? Verse seven is a verse that is attacked in almost every new Bible. It's taken right out. One of the clearest verses that show the triune Godhead, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and it's taken right out. Okay? Even Scrivener in his paragraph Bible that he did for Cambridge back in 1879, he took this verse and put the entire thing in italics. Why? Because Scrivener was working for Westcott and Hort. Westcott and Hort hated this verse. This verse is not in the critical text that they wrote. They didn't put that verse in there. Okay? I know that goes deep and there's history and I love the history of the thing at any rate. But these three are one. Verse eight now, there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, the water, and the blood, and these three agree in one. So first, in verse seven, we have the record of God, right? We have this record of God that they're bearing witness to, okay? Father, the word, and the Holy Ghost, it's God. Then we have in earth. Well, what is this? Well, what three things left the body of Jesus Christ on that cross? He said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And his spirit left his body and went to the hands of the Father, fulfilling that Old Testament where it says, into thy hands I commit my spirit. Okay, commit and commend, slight difference, but you study that out and it's a beautiful full picture of what actually went on there. But as you look at that, the spirit is in the hands of the Father. And then that centurion came up and stabbed his side. And forthwith flowed out the blood and the water. And he saw the earthquake, and the sky was darkened. And that centurion said, truly, this was the Son of God. Those three things that left the body of Jesus Christ proved that he was the Son of God to that centurion. And that man bore witness of that, okay? With that understanding, if we receive the witness of men, verse eight, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. Who has the witness? It's God. And if you have the witness within yourself, where is God? In you. And that's in 1 John 2 20 verse seven. No, 1 John chapter two, verse 27. But the anointing which you have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you. But as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. All right, that witness is on the inside. It's that thing. The spirit of God beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. Now we are the sons of God, sorry. And if sons, then heirs. Heirs of God. And that witness is on the inward parts. Now, if we'll receive the witness of men, that witness of God is greater. But if all of a sudden this becomes the Holy Spirit, if that's a capital S, Spirit in 1 John 5, 8, then that doctrine is lost. Where is the witness of men in this thing then? It doesn't make sense, okay? So you follow doctrinally, you look at these things, and you begin seeing that just kind of pulled apart, laid open there. Go to Job chapter 26. We're gonna leave off here in 1 John. Go to Job 26. We're gonna, this is gonna be a two-part, okay? We're gonna do the second part down next door after lunch. We might have to run a couple of laps to burn off all the calories so that they don't make us sleepy, so we'll be able to pay attention. But Job 26. Look at verse 13. Verse 11 says the pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. All right, who is that speaking of? God. He divided the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smited through the proud. That can only be speaking of God. Look at verse 13. By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens. His hand hath formed the crooked serpent. That's a lowercase s spirit. But yet it's speaking of God. This is then speaking of the person of Jesus Christ. And to further solidify that, all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. Okay? 1 John 1, or John 1, 3, Galatians 1, 16 and 17 show that Jesus Christ is the one who is the creator. And this verse here solidifies that even further, that his spirit, by his spirit he hath garnished the heavens. It's Jesus Christ, personal spirit, that did that thing. Genesis 620, no, 6.3 says, my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he is also flesh. Okay, lowercase s spirit. Again, Jesus Christ. You see Jesus Christ's personal spirit striving with man through the Old Testament. You see him striving with man through the New Testament, in that he's striving with those Pharisees and the Sadducees and the wicked sinners and all them, striving with those men. But he says, my spirit shall not always strive with man. Why? He's also flesh. Okay. There's coming a day when he will no longer strive with man. He that letteth now will now let until he be taken out of the way. Okay. There's a time coming where that spirit is no longer going to strive with man. Once that resurrection happens, his personal spirit is no longer going to strive with man. There is coming a time that is not an everlasting striving. There's coming a time where it's going to be the end. Okay. We don't necessarily need to get into the depth of detail of those things, but I do want to go through a couple more of these in the next five minutes and then we'll be done. Look at Nehemiah chapter 10. Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job. That's where Nehemiah's at. Nehemiah 9 and verse 10. This is not where I wanted to be. Maybe it was 10-9. No, it was definitely not 10-9. All right, we're going to skip Nehemiah. Go to Numbers chapter 11. I apologize for that. That is my fault. There is a place in Nehemiah, but I wrote it down wrong. We're not going to beleaguer the point. Numbers chapter 11. Yes, look at verse 29. Numbers 11, 29. And Moses said unto him, envious thou for my sake, would God that all the Lord's people were prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them. Here we have the Lord Jehovah, all right? And again, everywhere you find that capital L-O-R-D, that is the Hebrew word for Jehovah. Okay, that's in English. That's how that is signified in English, is capital L-O-R-D. There's other places where it's capital G-O-D. It's the same thing, okay? But that's Jehovah. So this is the personal spirit of Jehovah, but it's a lowercase s. Your King James Bible just disproved the Jehovah's Witnesses. They do not believe that Jesus Christ is Jehovah God, but your King James Bible just said that it is. that he is Jehovah God. How? Because of the capitalization of an S. Because this is a lowercase S spirit, and we follow this throughout the word of God, we find that the lowercase S spirit, Father into thy hands I commend my spirit. It's a lowercase S spirit. My spirit shall not always strive with man. We saw that one earlier. And because this is a lowercase S spirit, he says, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them. Jesus Christ is Jehovah God. Let me put it to you this way, Jehovah God is Jesus Christ, okay? Now that'll thrill your soul, that you have a book that can accurately divide asunder the Godhead so that you can see individually the Godhead, okay? Let's continue on, Exodus 31, since we're right here close, Exodus 31. Maybe that's not enough to convince you. That's okay. I'm not trying to convince you. I'm just showing you what the Word of God says. Exodus 31, look at verse three. Oh, sorry, verse two. See, I have called by name, Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah. And I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship. Now it's interesting here, it says the Spirit of God, but yet it's a lowercase s spirit. And it's the one that is the Spirit of God in wisdom and in understanding, okay? Let's go to Isaiah, and I believe 42. I'm gonna keep my place there. I believe it's Isaiah 42 we need to go to next. Well, this isn't the one I was thinking of, but we'll look at this one. Okay, Isaiah 42, verse one. Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth. I have put my spirit upon him. He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. Now, who is that speaking of? Jesus Christ. It's the Lord speaking. And so he's speaking of that servant. Who is that servant? It's the word of God made flesh. And so Jehovah is putting his spirit in that servant. So Jesus Christ, the one who walked this earth, had the spirit of Jehovah in him, okay? Jesus Christ is God. Every place you see a lowercase s spirit and it's connected with deity, it is the person of Jesus Christ. It is his personal spirit, okay? That ought to excite you. It excites me. These things get me going. Let me see. Oh, I wrote that one down wrong, too. No, I did not. Oh, there's another part of it. 21, not 2. Oh, yeah, let's go to Isaiah 59, 21, as long as we're right here, we might as well. Isaiah 59, and look at verse 21. It says, as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord. My spirit that is upon thee and my words, which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord from henceforth and forever. Now what's interesting about that is normally the spirit of the Lord giving the word of God, we would say, oh, that was the Holy Ghost, right? That's the Holy Spirit. That's where our minds are programmed, that's where we automatically go. But studying out what we've studied out, what does this say? It says, my spirit that is upon thee, lowercase s spirit. But yet it is Jehovah God, and in lowercase s spirit, again showing the person of Jesus Christ, putting his words in the prophet. Look at that. And this is the ones, these are the words that were never, ever, ever, ever, ever going to fail. This is the preserved word of God. It is the words of Jesus Christ. Ooh, let's go there. John chapter 12. And this is where we're gonna end it. Oh, the Lord just shut this down good. John 12 in verse 46. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. And if any man hear my words and believe not, I judge him not, for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me and receiveth not my words, he hath one that judgeth him. The word that I have spoken shall judge him in the last day. The very word of God is the words of Jesus Christ. We saw that in Isaiah 59, 21. And we see that the words of Jesus Christ, his word, is going to judge us at the last day. That's how that works. We're judged by the words of Jesus Christ. And these words are the words that will never pass away. They're gonna go from one generation to the other, and your children, and your children's children, and your children's children's children are gonna have them. And if you promised that they were gonna be there, and if they promised that they were going to be those things that judge us, what kind of a God wouldn't give you the exact words that you're gonna be judged by in that day? Therefore, this answers the question, for me at least, One, is God able to give us a perfect Bible? The answer that everyone has to say, well, of course he's able to. Second question, would he want to? Yes, he would. Why? Because he said he's going to judge you by those words someday. And if he's able to, and if he would want to, then where are they? Where are they preserved perfectly? They have to be somewhere. I believe it's in this King James Bible. because through the volume of the book, it is written of him. Okay. Now we're going to continue on in these things. We might touch a little bit more on the lowercase s spirit in the Psalms 51, 11, Psalm 104, 30, Psalm 139, seven. Um, we might look at those things. Okay. Um, but this afternoon we're going to, we're going to dissect that, that capital S spirit. All right. We're going to look at those things in its entirety. So there, and I think,