1 00:00:31,939 --> 00:00:37,931 Song Turn, if you would, in your Bibles to Luke Chapter one. 2 00:00:38,115 --> 00:00:39,479 Luke, Chapter one. 3 00:00:41,219 --> 00:00:42,235 Appreciate the song. 4 00:00:42,267 --> 00:00:43,611 I'd rather have Jesus than anything. 5 00:00:43,675 --> 00:00:45,439 My mom used to sing that song. 6 00:00:46,019 --> 00:00:47,799 I know every word to it. 7 00:00:49,139 --> 00:00:53,759 And it's certainly better to have Jesus than all the other stuff. 8 00:00:55,629 --> 00:00:56,805 Luke Chapter one. 9 00:00:56,877 --> 00:01:00,805 Tonight we have a couple of weeks ago, we did the introduction 10 00:01:00,917 --> 00:01:02,809 to the Baptist distinctives. 11 00:01:03,709 --> 00:01:05,173 What are the Baptist distinctives? 12 00:01:05,221 --> 00:01:06,501 It's Bible doctrines. 13 00:01:06,565 --> 00:01:11,365 Bible teachings that when taken as a whole, in other words, 14 00:01:11,437 --> 00:01:17,029 all of them put together, make Baptists distinct. 15 00:01:17,109 --> 00:01:20,741 In other words, some of these doctrines, other denominations and 16 00:01:20,765 --> 00:01:22,045 other groups hold. 17 00:01:22,237 --> 00:01:24,973 But if you take all 12 of them, which is what we're going to 18 00:01:24,981 --> 00:01:29,549 cover is 12, and you put them together, you're going to find that 19 00:01:29,669 --> 00:01:31,689 only Baptists are going to hold those. 20 00:01:31,989 --> 00:01:34,093 And they're not Baptist doctrine. 21 00:01:34,141 --> 00:01:35,277 They're Bible doctrine. 22 00:01:35,373 --> 00:01:36,845 They're Bible teachings. 23 00:01:37,037 --> 00:01:39,053 And we've talked about how that. 24 00:01:39,141 --> 00:01:44,909 Again, we don't There are not to say there are core beliefs or 25 00:01:44,949 --> 00:01:46,769 there are essential doctrines. 26 00:01:47,549 --> 00:01:49,253 We understand the fundamentals of the faith. 27 00:01:49,301 --> 00:01:51,861 There are fundamentals of the faith have to do with salvation, 28 00:01:51,925 --> 00:01:52,533 though. 29 00:01:52,701 --> 00:01:55,849 But when it comes to doctrine, they are not essential and core, 30 00:01:56,829 --> 00:01:59,609 because all doctrine is essential and core. 31 00:02:00,749 --> 00:02:04,213 You don't just say, well, you know, these are not important. 32 00:02:04,381 --> 00:02:08,197 As long as you believe these, then we're good. 33 00:02:08,333 --> 00:02:09,493 No, no, no. 34 00:02:09,661 --> 00:02:11,889 All doctrine is important. 35 00:02:12,349 --> 00:02:13,209 Amen. 36 00:02:13,559 --> 00:02:17,279 I mean, you don't just cut out the part of the Bible you don't want 37 00:02:17,319 --> 00:02:22,207 to believe or that you don't want to hold to. 38 00:02:22,343 --> 00:02:24,239 All right, so Luke, chapter one. 39 00:02:24,359 --> 00:02:25,567 Look at verse one. 40 00:02:25,703 --> 00:02:33,183 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration 41 00:02:33,231 --> 00:02:36,767 of those things, those things which are most surely believed among 42 00:02:36,823 --> 00:02:37,419 us. 43 00:02:38,279 --> 00:02:42,467 So Luke is saying here there are many who have taken in hand to 44 00:02:42,523 --> 00:02:47,107 write down the things that we hold, the things we believe, even 45 00:02:47,163 --> 00:02:50,963 as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were 46 00:02:51,051 --> 00:02:54,211 eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word. 47 00:02:54,355 --> 00:02:57,811 All right, so there was those who were there who wrote down what 48 00:02:57,915 --> 00:03:00,771 happened and the doctrines that were being taught, the teachings. 49 00:03:00,915 --> 00:03:02,579 It seemed good, verse three to me. 50 00:03:02,619 --> 00:03:09,731 Also having had what perfect understanding of all things from 51 00:03:09,755 --> 00:03:15,427 the very first to write unto thee, in order, most excellent Theophilus, 52 00:03:15,603 --> 00:03:19,075 that thou mightest know the certainty. 53 00:03:19,267 --> 00:03:22,519 He doesn't say that you might know, probably. 54 00:03:24,779 --> 00:03:26,115 He doesn't say that. 55 00:03:26,267 --> 00:03:31,759 He says, I'm going to give you what is absolute, what is fact. 56 00:03:32,229 --> 00:03:37,117 These are certain other people have taken in hand to write things 57 00:03:37,173 --> 00:03:37,677 down. 58 00:03:37,813 --> 00:03:41,849 And what he's essentially saying is these may not be certain, 59 00:03:42,229 --> 00:03:44,589 but I'VE been given perfect understanding. 60 00:03:44,749 --> 00:03:46,525 He is saying, I have been. 61 00:03:46,677 --> 00:03:48,829 Again, he's being filled with the spirit of God. 62 00:03:48,909 --> 00:03:53,005 And as God is telling him what to write, he's writing down with 63 00:03:53,077 --> 00:03:58,445 certainty what happened and what doctrines were being taught. 64 00:03:58,477 --> 00:03:59,569 Does that make sense? 65 00:03:59,929 --> 00:04:01,905 And so that look at verse four again. 66 00:04:01,977 --> 00:04:05,297 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, those 67 00:04:05,353 --> 00:04:10,549 things wherein thou hast been what instructed the certainty. 68 00:04:10,969 --> 00:04:12,545 Doesn't sound like he's. 69 00:04:12,737 --> 00:04:16,289 Again, he's not being shaky on this. 70 00:04:16,329 --> 00:04:18,817 He's not being probably on this. 71 00:04:18,953 --> 00:04:23,681 He is saying the certainty that these are facts, that they are 72 00:04:23,705 --> 00:04:25,509 dogmatic, that they're absolute. 73 00:04:25,929 --> 00:04:26,705 Amen. 74 00:04:26,817 --> 00:04:31,377 And I'm thankful I have a Bible that is God's word, that it's 75 00:04:31,393 --> 00:04:33,201 inerrant, it's infallible. 76 00:04:33,345 --> 00:04:36,229 The very words of God, I hold it in my hand tonight. 77 00:04:37,289 --> 00:04:43,905 Again, we must as a church see the importance of the role of being 78 00:04:43,977 --> 00:04:48,577 a good steward of the truth, of being a good steward of the faith, 79 00:04:48,673 --> 00:04:53,483 but being a good steward of the truth because God has commanded, 80 00:04:53,531 --> 00:05:01,739 God has, he has commissioned the church is all churches to protect 81 00:05:01,819 --> 00:05:06,795 this truth, to make sure that it's passed on to the next generation. 82 00:05:06,907 --> 00:05:09,931 Again, we read this a couple of weeks ago, 2nd Timothy 2, 2, which 83 00:05:09,955 --> 00:05:12,091 will be our theme verse for this study. 84 00:05:12,275 --> 00:05:13,995 2nd Timothy 2 2. 85 00:05:14,147 --> 00:05:16,391 The things that thou has heard of me. 86 00:05:16,515 --> 00:05:18,207 This is Paul speaking to Timothy. 87 00:05:18,303 --> 00:05:23,503 Among many witnesses the same commit thou to faithful men who shall 88 00:05:23,551 --> 00:05:28,751 be able to teach others also the things that thou has heard of 89 00:05:28,775 --> 00:05:29,103 me. 90 00:05:29,191 --> 00:05:31,999 Among many the same commit. 91 00:05:32,159 --> 00:05:37,999 So what was given to Paul from the Lord, that was from Paul given 92 00:05:38,039 --> 00:05:38,671 to Timothy. 93 00:05:38,735 --> 00:05:42,979 And then Timothy was to take those same things, those same truths 94 00:05:43,359 --> 00:05:45,687 and pass them to the next generation. 95 00:05:45,783 --> 00:05:48,055 And then that generation is to pass it to the next generation. 96 00:05:48,167 --> 00:05:53,127 And we are under the same guise that we ought to pass the truth 97 00:05:53,303 --> 00:05:55,179 down to the next generation. 98 00:05:56,799 --> 00:05:57,819 Scripture. 99 00:05:58,959 --> 00:06:01,415 So the first Baptist distinct that we're going to cover. 100 00:06:01,567 --> 00:06:05,447 And again, we're not saying that one of these may not another 101 00:06:05,503 --> 00:06:08,663 denomination or another group may hold this one true. 102 00:06:08,711 --> 00:06:11,319 In fact, I know there are other denominations who hold this 103 00:06:11,359 --> 00:06:12,539 particular one true. 104 00:06:12,889 --> 00:06:15,217 But number one, you ready? 105 00:06:15,393 --> 00:06:17,921 Scripture as the singular. 106 00:06:17,985 --> 00:06:22,289 We believe the Scripture as the singular, absolute, fully sufficient 107 00:06:22,369 --> 00:06:25,441 and final rule of faith and practice. 108 00:06:25,585 --> 00:06:28,705 And you'll even see this in our Articles of Faith of Heritage 109 00:06:28,737 --> 00:06:29,313 Baptist Church. 110 00:06:29,361 --> 00:06:30,509 Let me read that again. 111 00:06:31,369 --> 00:06:36,257 We believe the Scriptures as the singular, absolute, fully sufficient 112 00:06:36,353 --> 00:06:39,189 and final rule of faith and practice. 113 00:06:39,549 --> 00:06:43,781 We believe the Scriptures, we believe the Bible, the 66 books, 114 00:06:43,925 --> 00:06:47,369 all 66 books to be the very words of God. 115 00:06:47,789 --> 00:06:53,653 40 men wrote the Bible over a period of 1600 years and yet it's 116 00:06:53,701 --> 00:06:54,885 without error. 117 00:06:54,997 --> 00:06:55,989 That's a miracle. 118 00:06:56,069 --> 00:06:57,269 This is a miraculous book. 119 00:06:57,309 --> 00:06:59,221 It's a miraculous book that you hold in your hand. 120 00:06:59,325 --> 00:07:03,061 It's an amazing book, but it's a miraculous book, a supernatural 121 00:07:03,125 --> 00:07:05,089 book you hold in your hand. 122 00:07:05,949 --> 00:07:09,861 40 men over 1600 year period and not one error. 123 00:07:09,925 --> 00:07:11,329 It's an amazing thing. 124 00:07:12,109 --> 00:07:17,269 Then it says not only is it scripture, but is the sole S O L 125 00:07:17,309 --> 00:07:18,501 E the soul. 126 00:07:18,645 --> 00:07:20,609 That means it's the one and only. 127 00:07:21,469 --> 00:07:23,449 There are not seven Bibles. 128 00:07:24,669 --> 00:07:26,809 There are not 69 books. 129 00:07:27,949 --> 00:07:29,769 There's not, Amen. 130 00:07:30,109 --> 00:07:35,263 There's, there's one absolute sole authority exclusively the Bible. 131 00:07:35,391 --> 00:07:38,399 And I like again, is the soul absolute. 132 00:07:38,479 --> 00:07:40,735 That means unconditionally and complete. 133 00:07:40,927 --> 00:07:44,287 This is the complete revelation from God. 134 00:07:44,463 --> 00:07:45,999 God revealing himself to us. 135 00:07:46,039 --> 00:07:46,735 This is complete. 136 00:07:46,767 --> 00:07:50,431 In fact, at the end of the Bible it says, if you take away or 137 00:07:50,455 --> 00:07:54,259 add to this thing, you're in danger of hell, of hellfire. 138 00:07:54,759 --> 00:07:59,195 And so when you do hear someone say, some of these TV evangelists 139 00:07:59,227 --> 00:08:03,799 who say, I've gotten a word from the Lord and he spoke to me. 140 00:08:04,179 --> 00:08:08,235 Now again, if that's a still small voice and the Holy Spirit speaking 141 00:08:08,267 --> 00:08:09,931 to you, that's awesome. 142 00:08:10,075 --> 00:08:13,339 And the Lord certainly has done that for all of us at some point, 143 00:08:13,379 --> 00:08:14,539 touched our hearts. 144 00:08:14,699 --> 00:08:19,627 But if you hear an audible voice from God and you take that 145 00:08:19,683 --> 00:08:27,601 as equivalent to what the Scriptures are, the Bible says that 146 00:08:27,785 --> 00:08:30,469 you're in danger of going to hell. 147 00:08:34,809 --> 00:08:37,713 Hebrews says that God spoke in time past unto the fathers by the 148 00:08:37,721 --> 00:08:40,709 prophets, but hath in these last days spoken to us by his son. 149 00:08:41,129 --> 00:08:46,949 God is no longer speaking directly, audibly to anyone. 150 00:08:47,929 --> 00:08:52,889 If you hear a voice, an audible voice that says it's God, 151 00:08:53,629 --> 00:08:58,741 you had too much pizza or so much something, maybe you need some 152 00:08:58,765 --> 00:08:59,849 antacids. 153 00:09:00,429 --> 00:09:02,213 Tum tum tum tum tums. 154 00:09:02,261 --> 00:09:02,849 Right. 155 00:09:04,509 --> 00:09:06,277 I'm being silly, but it's true. 156 00:09:06,373 --> 00:09:13,809 There's men out there who are shysters who will say, you know, 157 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:22,415 and they say God spoke to them and that what they say is equivalent 158 00:09:22,447 --> 00:09:23,819 to what the Bible says. 159 00:09:24,199 --> 00:09:27,631 And so that is an area we absolutely believe the Bible to be 160 00:09:27,655 --> 00:09:28,079 complete. 161 00:09:28,159 --> 00:09:28,959 I'll move on. 162 00:09:29,079 --> 00:09:30,735 We believe the Bible to be fully sufficient. 163 00:09:30,767 --> 00:09:32,539 In other words, plentiful enough. 164 00:09:32,839 --> 00:09:34,031 The Bible's complete. 165 00:09:34,095 --> 00:09:39,727 It's plentiful enough, fully sufficient for everything, every 166 00:09:39,783 --> 00:09:40,779 area of life. 167 00:09:41,229 --> 00:09:43,445 And it's the final rule. 168 00:09:43,557 --> 00:09:46,357 In other words, it's the ultimate standard of faith. 169 00:09:46,453 --> 00:09:50,741 It's the ultimate standard of faith and practice. 170 00:09:50,805 --> 00:09:55,061 So the ultimate standard means that anyone who preaches or teaches 171 00:09:55,125 --> 00:09:57,765 something contrary to the Scripture, they're wrong. 172 00:09:57,877 --> 00:10:00,229 The Bible's right, man. 173 00:10:00,269 --> 00:10:02,165 It's pretty cut and dry. 174 00:10:02,277 --> 00:10:04,853 That's why I'm saying if somebody says they've heard an audible 175 00:10:04,901 --> 00:10:07,903 voice from God and they like for instance, the Mormons and the 176 00:10:07,911 --> 00:10:12,271 Jehovah Witnesses who believe their prophet or whomever heard extra 177 00:10:12,335 --> 00:10:16,687 biblical, you know, revelations from God, they're wrong. 178 00:10:16,863 --> 00:10:18,019 It's false. 179 00:10:18,519 --> 00:10:19,183 They're false. 180 00:10:19,231 --> 00:10:21,407 Prophets say preacher, that's kind of mean. 181 00:10:21,463 --> 00:10:22,383 No, it's Bible. 182 00:10:22,431 --> 00:10:23,711 It's what the Bible says. 183 00:10:23,895 --> 00:10:26,339 You can't add to or take away from the Bible. 184 00:10:27,639 --> 00:10:33,539 And so we ought to again see the importance of this Bible teaching 185 00:10:33,849 --> 00:10:38,849 that the word of God is the sole, absolute, fully sufficient, 186 00:10:38,929 --> 00:10:42,513 final rule of faith, our beliefs and practice. 187 00:10:42,561 --> 00:10:45,201 In other words, how to the application. 188 00:10:45,345 --> 00:10:48,641 The Bible doesn't just tell you what to do, it tells you how 189 00:10:48,665 --> 00:10:51,345 to do it and then it gives you the power to do it. 190 00:10:51,497 --> 00:10:53,505 And we're going to cover that scripture in a moment that you're 191 00:10:53,537 --> 00:10:55,389 already familiar with. 192 00:10:57,689 --> 00:10:58,903 I'm amazed. 193 00:10:59,081 --> 00:11:04,459 The more that I study the Bible, the more deeper it becomes. 194 00:11:04,619 --> 00:11:10,859 I'm amazed when I read the same chapter 20 years later, after 195 00:11:10,899 --> 00:11:15,547 I've read it 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50 times over 20 years span, 196 00:11:15,563 --> 00:11:17,915 that I still get something else out of it. 197 00:11:18,067 --> 00:11:19,559 It's an amazing book. 198 00:11:19,939 --> 00:11:21,399 It's an amazing book. 199 00:11:23,699 --> 00:11:28,047 There is Louis Francis Schaeffer once said this. 200 00:11:28,103 --> 00:11:30,175 He said there are five major questions. 201 00:11:30,207 --> 00:11:32,779 Well, he said there's four major questions of life. 202 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:34,979 Is there a God? 203 00:11:36,919 --> 00:11:38,095 Is there a God? 204 00:11:38,207 --> 00:11:39,935 Has that God spoken? 205 00:11:40,127 --> 00:11:44,847 Has he spoken in a manner so as to be understood and is it relevant 206 00:11:45,023 --> 00:11:47,739 and do we have a reliable record of such? 207 00:11:48,359 --> 00:11:52,751 Well, can I tell you there is a God and we know this by way of 208 00:11:52,775 --> 00:11:53,539 creation. 209 00:11:54,299 --> 00:11:59,411 The Bible says that the creation in which we get to see is 210 00:11:59,515 --> 00:12:03,759 nothing more than God revealing himself to us. 211 00:12:05,739 --> 00:12:11,555 You think about Psalm 19, that the sun s u n is a circuit riding 212 00:12:11,587 --> 00:12:15,491 preacher, just continually shouting there is a God, there is 213 00:12:15,515 --> 00:12:16,199 a God. 214 00:12:16,859 --> 00:12:19,879 Creation reveals to us there is a God. 215 00:12:20,269 --> 00:12:23,573 Jesus Christ, his life, his death, his resurrection reveals to 216 00:12:23,581 --> 00:12:24,661 us there's a God. 217 00:12:24,805 --> 00:12:27,541 The Word reveals to us there's a God. 218 00:12:27,685 --> 00:12:31,973 And then we can also look back in history and see how God has intervened 219 00:12:32,021 --> 00:12:33,733 and how God has worked in history. 220 00:12:33,901 --> 00:12:35,765 All these things revealed to us there's a God. 221 00:12:35,797 --> 00:12:37,049 Has that God spoken? 222 00:12:37,389 --> 00:12:39,125 Has he revealed himself to us? 223 00:12:39,197 --> 00:12:43,749 Well, yes, through creation and thankfully through the word that 224 00:12:43,789 --> 00:12:44,389 he has given us. 225 00:12:44,429 --> 00:12:46,847 Is it a manner in which could be understood and is it relevant? 226 00:12:46,973 --> 00:12:47,723 Absolutely. 227 00:12:47,771 --> 00:12:49,067 We're going to Cover that in a moment. 228 00:12:49,163 --> 00:12:51,195 And do we have a reliable record of such. 229 00:12:51,267 --> 00:12:53,359 Yes, yes. 230 00:12:54,099 --> 00:12:56,187 Do a study of how the Bible came about. 231 00:12:56,243 --> 00:12:57,387 And we've done that here. 232 00:12:57,443 --> 00:12:58,363 We'll do it again. 233 00:12:58,531 --> 00:13:00,331 How the Bible came to us. 234 00:13:00,515 --> 00:13:04,763 There are more ancient manuscripts of the Bible than any 235 00:13:04,851 --> 00:13:06,559 other books of antiquity. 236 00:13:08,099 --> 00:13:09,419 Any other books. 237 00:13:09,579 --> 00:13:10,999 It's not even close. 238 00:13:14,269 --> 00:13:15,429 What is the book called? 239 00:13:15,469 --> 00:13:17,365 I think Homer's Odyssey. 240 00:13:17,557 --> 00:13:18,389 What's that one called? 241 00:13:18,429 --> 00:13:19,413 Somebody help me with that. 242 00:13:19,501 --> 00:13:20,689 Am I getting that right? 243 00:13:21,629 --> 00:13:22,689 That book? 244 00:13:22,989 --> 00:13:27,461 There is only like 400 copies of that thing and it's not even that 245 00:13:27,485 --> 00:13:27,813 many. 246 00:13:27,901 --> 00:13:29,129 I'm exaggerating. 247 00:13:30,349 --> 00:13:34,997 And it's considered accurate that it's really. 248 00:13:35,133 --> 00:13:38,649 It is came from its authority. 249 00:13:39,299 --> 00:13:43,867 We have like 5,000 and yet we have scholars who say, well, that's 250 00:13:43,883 --> 00:13:44,999 not the real thing. 251 00:13:45,699 --> 00:13:48,587 I'm telling you, I have a little chart and I should have brought 252 00:13:48,603 --> 00:13:49,115 it with me. 253 00:13:49,187 --> 00:13:52,843 I shouldn't be doing this off the top of my head about how the 254 00:13:52,931 --> 00:13:58,347 Bible has more ancient manuscripts than any other ancient 255 00:13:58,443 --> 00:13:59,079 book. 256 00:13:59,459 --> 00:14:00,779 It's not even close. 257 00:14:00,899 --> 00:14:02,475 It's thousands more. 258 00:14:02,627 --> 00:14:06,849 And yet you have these same scholars who will accept this other 259 00:14:06,889 --> 00:14:09,921 book of antiquity that they have very little proof of and they 260 00:14:09,945 --> 00:14:11,189 won't accept the Bible. 261 00:14:12,729 --> 00:14:14,309 It's preposterous. 262 00:14:14,809 --> 00:14:19,681 So historically speaking, we have a great book, a wonderful book. 263 00:14:19,865 --> 00:14:22,497 I'm thankful it's not just historically speaking. 264 00:14:22,673 --> 00:14:26,433 I'm thankful we've witnessed the Bible, how the Bible changes 265 00:14:26,481 --> 00:14:26,977 life. 266 00:14:27,113 --> 00:14:30,911 I'm thankful that I have felt the Holy Spirit. 267 00:14:30,975 --> 00:14:34,383 I've had the Holy Spirit illuminate me, help me to understand 268 00:14:34,471 --> 00:14:35,459 the Scriptures. 269 00:14:35,879 --> 00:14:37,407 It's so amazing. 270 00:14:37,583 --> 00:14:40,191 The last one, that Brother Stewart, he's the one that adds this 271 00:14:40,215 --> 00:14:40,351 one. 272 00:14:40,375 --> 00:14:40,943 Is it. 273 00:14:41,031 --> 00:14:42,619 How reliable is it? 274 00:14:42,999 --> 00:14:45,135 How reliable is the word of God? 275 00:14:45,167 --> 00:14:50,015 I'm thankful the Bible promises that it will be preserved. 276 00:14:50,127 --> 00:14:51,999 And there are many, many scriptures we could turn to. 277 00:14:52,039 --> 00:14:53,283 But Psalm 105. 278 00:14:53,451 --> 00:14:58,229 8 says Psalm 105. 279 00:14:58,529 --> 00:15:00,361 And verse 8 is not. 280 00:15:00,465 --> 00:15:03,113 Yes, he hath remembered his covenant forever. 281 00:15:03,241 --> 00:15:07,229 The word which he commanded to a thousand generations. 282 00:15:07,729 --> 00:15:08,409 And I could. 283 00:15:08,449 --> 00:15:12,505 We could go on and on and on that God preserved his word. 284 00:15:12,537 --> 00:15:15,429 I'm going to turn over to First Peter, chapter one. 285 00:15:16,689 --> 00:15:18,309 First Peter, chapter one. 286 00:15:21,339 --> 00:15:21,971 Look at there. 287 00:15:21,995 --> 00:15:23,239 There's just some rain. 288 00:15:27,579 --> 00:15:28,995 First Peter somewhere in the Bible. 289 00:15:29,027 --> 00:15:31,919 Just got to keep on looking at it towards the back. 290 00:15:33,659 --> 00:15:35,279 First Peter, chapter one. 291 00:15:35,979 --> 00:15:39,119 Look with me in verse 23. 292 00:15:40,219 --> 00:15:45,891 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through 293 00:15:45,915 --> 00:15:49,181 the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren. 294 00:15:49,245 --> 00:15:51,357 See that ye love one another with a pure heart. 295 00:15:51,413 --> 00:15:52,701 Fervently 23. 296 00:15:52,805 --> 00:15:54,509 First Peter, chapter 2, verse 23. 297 00:15:54,629 --> 00:15:57,805 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible 298 00:15:57,917 --> 00:16:03,853 buyeth the word of God, which liveth and abideth what forever. 299 00:16:03,981 --> 00:16:07,453 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower 300 00:16:07,501 --> 00:16:07,981 of grass. 301 00:16:08,045 --> 00:16:10,813 The grass withereth, especially in Texas, and the flower 302 00:16:10,861 --> 00:16:13,359 thereof falleth away, especially in Texas. 303 00:16:13,509 --> 00:16:16,987 But the word of the Lord what endureth forever. 304 00:16:17,163 --> 00:16:20,571 And this is the word which by the Gospel is preached unto you. 305 00:16:20,595 --> 00:16:24,331 And I'm only touching the surface of the references that tell 306 00:16:24,355 --> 00:16:26,959 us that God will preserve his word. 307 00:16:27,779 --> 00:16:31,519 And I hold in my hand the preserved word of God. 308 00:16:33,459 --> 00:16:35,039 We have God's word. 309 00:16:35,619 --> 00:16:37,399 It's a miraculous book. 310 00:16:38,499 --> 00:16:40,565 So, second Timothy, very familiar passage. 311 00:16:40,597 --> 00:16:41,317 Turn there with me. 312 00:16:41,373 --> 00:16:42,929 Second Timothy, chapter two. 313 00:16:45,789 --> 00:16:47,649 Second Timothy, chapter two. 314 00:16:49,629 --> 00:16:52,677 Probably the most familiar verse in the Bible when it comes 315 00:16:52,733 --> 00:16:54,569 to talking about the Bible. 316 00:16:55,709 --> 00:16:57,157 Second Timothy, chapter two. 317 00:16:57,213 --> 00:16:57,749 Look with me. 318 00:16:57,789 --> 00:16:59,329 Verse 16. 319 00:16:59,709 --> 00:17:02,325 Let's go to second Timothy, chapter three, verse 16. 320 00:17:02,397 --> 00:17:03,049 Sorry. 321 00:17:09,159 --> 00:17:12,899 The Bible says all Scripture. 322 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:15,419 Notice it says all, not some. 323 00:17:15,719 --> 00:17:18,047 So Old Testament and New Testament. 324 00:17:18,223 --> 00:17:20,495 All scripture is given by inspiration. 325 00:17:20,607 --> 00:17:24,579 And most of you know that that word inspiration means God breathed. 326 00:17:25,719 --> 00:17:32,039 God breathed by inspiration of God and is profitable. 327 00:17:32,699 --> 00:17:35,107 It is relevant, profitable. 328 00:17:35,203 --> 00:17:35,987 For doctrine. 329 00:17:36,083 --> 00:17:40,419 Doctrine simply means teaching for reproof, for correction, for 330 00:17:40,459 --> 00:17:43,283 instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect. 331 00:17:43,331 --> 00:17:47,959 That means complete, throughly furnished unto all good works. 332 00:17:48,379 --> 00:17:52,319 There's a simple outline for this we've used so many times. 333 00:17:52,939 --> 00:17:56,723 Again, the word of God is inspired and it's profitable. 334 00:17:56,771 --> 00:17:59,029 It's relevant for doctrine. 335 00:17:59,109 --> 00:18:01,249 That means what is right. 336 00:18:01,629 --> 00:18:05,157 For reproof, it means what is not right. 337 00:18:05,293 --> 00:18:09,877 For correction, that means how to get right and then for instruction 338 00:18:09,973 --> 00:18:11,029 how to keep right. 339 00:18:11,149 --> 00:18:14,149 That outline does not originate with me. 340 00:18:14,189 --> 00:18:15,765 That outline is used everywhere. 341 00:18:15,877 --> 00:18:18,021 And it's a great outline because it does describe what the 342 00:18:18,045 --> 00:18:18,837 Bible does. 343 00:18:18,973 --> 00:18:19,573 I'm thankful. 344 00:18:19,621 --> 00:18:21,649 The Bible tells us what is right. 345 00:18:21,949 --> 00:18:25,767 It gives us the do's what to do, what to do. 346 00:18:25,823 --> 00:18:30,459 In other words, how am I to, you know, raise my kids? 347 00:18:30,959 --> 00:18:32,791 How am I to. 348 00:18:32,975 --> 00:18:37,127 How am I to govern and work within the family? 349 00:18:37,183 --> 00:18:39,863 How am I, what am I to do with my finances? 350 00:18:39,991 --> 00:18:41,751 And on and on and on and on. 351 00:18:41,855 --> 00:18:43,539 It gives us what to do. 352 00:18:43,999 --> 00:18:49,099 What is right, tells us how to have right relationships. 353 00:18:49,689 --> 00:18:50,629 Amen. 354 00:18:51,929 --> 00:18:54,561 Aren't you thankful for the Bible, by the way? 355 00:18:54,585 --> 00:18:58,673 It gives us a complete understanding and way in which to 356 00:18:58,681 --> 00:18:59,629 do those things. 357 00:19:00,169 --> 00:19:01,789 I'm thankful for that. 358 00:19:02,569 --> 00:19:03,857 It tells us what's right. 359 00:19:03,913 --> 00:19:05,777 It is the standard, by the way. 360 00:19:05,913 --> 00:19:11,105 We don't have time to go into we live today in a society that everything 361 00:19:11,177 --> 00:19:11,761 is relative. 362 00:19:11,825 --> 00:19:12,481 Right? 363 00:19:12,665 --> 00:19:13,457 I love it. 364 00:19:13,513 --> 00:19:16,509 Everything's relative until they steal your TV out of your house, 365 00:19:18,869 --> 00:19:19,389 you know? 366 00:19:19,429 --> 00:19:20,573 Then it's not relative anymore. 367 00:19:20,621 --> 00:19:21,409 It's wrong. 368 00:19:23,109 --> 00:19:24,729 That's our society today. 369 00:19:25,829 --> 00:19:26,477 Absolutely. 370 00:19:26,493 --> 00:19:27,309 There's a standard. 371 00:19:27,389 --> 00:19:28,653 Who makes the standard? 372 00:19:28,781 --> 00:19:29,965 Who sets the standard? 373 00:19:29,997 --> 00:19:35,453 Are we going to allow a politician to set the standard? 374 00:19:35,501 --> 00:19:39,261 Are we going to allow a man behind a bench in a black gown to 375 00:19:39,285 --> 00:19:40,205 set the standard? 376 00:19:40,317 --> 00:19:40,589 No. 377 00:19:40,629 --> 00:19:42,035 The Bible's the standard. 378 00:19:42,197 --> 00:19:45,623 And America was founded on Judeo Christian ethics. 379 00:19:45,671 --> 00:19:48,199 It was founded on the standard. 380 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:48,679 Man. 381 00:19:48,719 --> 00:19:52,151 The word of God is found all over the buildings in Washington, 382 00:19:52,215 --> 00:19:52,939 D.C. 383 00:19:53,519 --> 00:19:56,135 because that's what it was founded on. 384 00:19:56,207 --> 00:20:00,631 Because our founding fathers understood the standard has to be 385 00:20:00,655 --> 00:20:02,259 something other than a person. 386 00:20:04,239 --> 00:20:05,979 The standard has to be God. 387 00:20:06,879 --> 00:20:08,247 And what a standard it is. 388 00:20:08,303 --> 00:20:09,819 It's a righteous standard. 389 00:20:10,229 --> 00:20:11,725 The Bible's a just standard. 390 00:20:11,757 --> 00:20:13,169 It's a fair standard. 391 00:20:15,989 --> 00:20:18,445 God is no respecter of persons. 392 00:20:18,477 --> 00:20:20,609 Isn't that a great, great truth? 393 00:20:21,509 --> 00:20:26,621 That's a great truth that God has set in order everything that 394 00:20:26,645 --> 00:20:30,333 God hath determined the times before appointed the bounds of our 395 00:20:30,341 --> 00:20:31,037 habitation. 396 00:20:31,133 --> 00:20:34,253 That God hath made of one blood, all nations of man to earth 397 00:20:34,301 --> 00:20:35,117 to dwell upon the earth. 398 00:20:35,133 --> 00:20:37,367 In other words, there are no races. 399 00:20:37,543 --> 00:20:39,259 There's only the human race. 400 00:20:41,679 --> 00:20:44,539 There are ethnicities, but there are not races. 401 00:20:45,279 --> 00:20:51,139 And Christians absolutely need to understand that God loves all, 402 00:20:53,279 --> 00:20:55,379 loves all, and we should as well. 403 00:20:56,159 --> 00:20:57,099 Amen. 404 00:20:57,599 --> 00:20:58,539 Amen. 405 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:02,619 No matter what they look like, no matter their social standing, 406 00:21:04,159 --> 00:21:07,779 even if they got big noses, we ought to love them. 407 00:21:09,519 --> 00:21:11,287 I'm referring to my big nose, Miss Linda. 408 00:21:11,303 --> 00:21:11,879 It's okay. 409 00:21:11,959 --> 00:21:12,739 All right. 410 00:21:16,879 --> 00:21:20,247 All Scripture inspired what is right. 411 00:21:20,303 --> 00:21:21,847 Reproof what is not right. 412 00:21:21,983 --> 00:21:24,295 Again, the Bible gives us some don'ts. 413 00:21:24,327 --> 00:21:24,519 Right? 414 00:21:24,559 --> 00:21:26,871 Because most individuals love to bring it up. 415 00:21:26,895 --> 00:21:29,015 Well, all you do is no, no, no, and don't, don't. 416 00:21:29,047 --> 00:21:29,511 Don't do this. 417 00:21:29,535 --> 00:21:29,895 And don't. 418 00:21:29,927 --> 00:21:30,439 Don't do that. 419 00:21:30,479 --> 00:21:31,015 Now, I'm thankful. 420 00:21:31,047 --> 00:21:33,699 The Bible brings up a lot of things we should do too. 421 00:21:34,559 --> 00:21:37,223 It is absolutely a positive book. 422 00:21:37,391 --> 00:21:39,527 And yes, it does give us some don'ts. 423 00:21:39,623 --> 00:21:42,967 But the Bible makes it very clear that those are for our own 424 00:21:43,023 --> 00:21:46,739 good, that God has our best interests in mind. 425 00:21:48,719 --> 00:21:49,383 Reproof. 426 00:21:49,431 --> 00:21:52,151 What is not right gave us the Ten Commandments. 427 00:21:52,215 --> 00:21:53,415 He gave us the sermon. 428 00:21:53,447 --> 00:21:55,419 Jesus gave us a sermon on the mount. 429 00:21:56,249 --> 00:21:58,065 You know, he gave us the don'ts. 430 00:21:58,097 --> 00:22:02,689 Don't drink, don't chew, don't go with girls that do or boys that 431 00:22:02,729 --> 00:22:03,309 do. 432 00:22:05,769 --> 00:22:08,029 And then for correction, how to get right. 433 00:22:08,809 --> 00:22:09,441 I'm thankful. 434 00:22:09,505 --> 00:22:13,265 First John 1:9 is in the Bible, if we confess our sins, he 435 00:22:13,337 --> 00:22:16,481 that is God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to 436 00:22:16,505 --> 00:22:18,229 cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 437 00:22:20,409 --> 00:22:24,433 That's how we get right with God, ask him for forgiveness and 438 00:22:24,441 --> 00:22:27,329 then I'm thankful for Matthew, chapter 18, verses 15 through 18. 439 00:22:27,449 --> 00:22:29,313 How we get right with our fellow man. 440 00:22:29,481 --> 00:22:32,029 Well, we go to them and go and get right. 441 00:22:32,329 --> 00:22:35,761 If we can't get right by just going to them and we try to get right 442 00:22:35,785 --> 00:22:38,193 with them and it's still a problem, then we take somebody with 443 00:22:38,201 --> 00:22:39,869 us and we try to get right again. 444 00:22:40,489 --> 00:22:42,849 Then the Bible says if you can't get right by taking another 445 00:22:42,889 --> 00:22:45,269 person with you, then you'd have bring it to the church. 446 00:22:46,489 --> 00:22:49,985 It gives us a way to get right not only with God, but with our fellow 447 00:22:50,017 --> 00:22:50,589 man. 448 00:22:51,129 --> 00:22:52,161 It's an amazing book. 449 00:22:52,185 --> 00:22:53,761 And then lastly is instruction. 450 00:22:53,905 --> 00:22:55,089 How to keep right. 451 00:22:55,209 --> 00:22:56,081 How to keep right. 452 00:22:56,105 --> 00:22:59,789 In other words, we ought to walk in the steps of Jesus Christ 453 00:23:00,169 --> 00:23:00,577 again. 454 00:23:00,633 --> 00:23:03,681 We can have the do's and we can have the don'ts and we have all 455 00:23:03,705 --> 00:23:04,753 that in the Old Testament. 456 00:23:04,801 --> 00:23:08,145 And then Jesus summarizes them in the New Testament and says, whatsoever 457 00:23:08,177 --> 00:23:11,377 you would that men should do to you, do you even also to them, 458 00:23:11,433 --> 00:23:15,399 for this is all the law and the prophets. 459 00:23:16,939 --> 00:23:21,827 We used to call it, we used to call it, you know what I'm talking 460 00:23:21,843 --> 00:23:22,019 about. 461 00:23:22,059 --> 00:23:24,519 We used to call it the Golden Rule. 462 00:23:25,259 --> 00:23:26,979 I told this story many, many times. 463 00:23:27,019 --> 00:23:31,475 But my eighth grade science class, so for us that was junior 464 00:23:31,507 --> 00:23:34,499 high, so sixth, seventh and eighth grade was junior high. 465 00:23:34,539 --> 00:23:38,279 I don't even know what middle school means until the modern era. 466 00:23:39,909 --> 00:23:43,369 They started messing with the numbers or something, I don't know. 467 00:23:44,309 --> 00:23:47,357 And in my 8th grade science class, my 8th grade science teacher 468 00:23:47,373 --> 00:23:48,653 was a Christian, Mr. 469 00:23:48,701 --> 00:23:50,125 Parker was his name. 470 00:23:50,277 --> 00:23:53,181 And he actually lived close to us out where we lived, about three 471 00:23:53,205 --> 00:23:55,089 and a half miles outside of Bowie. 472 00:23:55,429 --> 00:23:57,889 And so I knew him really well, knew his daughter. 473 00:23:58,229 --> 00:24:03,869 And on the back of his classroom was a huge banner and it 474 00:24:03,909 --> 00:24:05,409 said the Golden Rule. 475 00:24:05,749 --> 00:24:08,489 Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you. 476 00:24:09,269 --> 00:24:13,741 Couldn't put Bible scripture up on the wall even back then, but 477 00:24:13,765 --> 00:24:15,529 he put the Golden Rule up there. 478 00:24:16,229 --> 00:24:20,169 And that really is the summation of the Old Testament law. 479 00:24:20,709 --> 00:24:25,729 Jesus summarized it to treat others as you would want to be treated. 480 00:24:26,309 --> 00:24:29,933 I was witnessing, got to witness, had breakfast with one of 481 00:24:29,941 --> 00:24:33,813 our church members Sunday morning and, and he brought his grandson 482 00:24:33,861 --> 00:24:34,693 with him. 483 00:24:34,861 --> 00:24:36,581 I enjoyed visiting with his grandson. 484 00:24:36,645 --> 00:24:40,341 His grandson had recently made a profession of faith and I was going 485 00:24:40,365 --> 00:24:40,757 through his. 486 00:24:40,813 --> 00:24:43,621 He wanted Me to talk to his grandson and kind of walk him through 487 00:24:43,725 --> 00:24:45,061 again the plan of salvation. 488 00:24:45,125 --> 00:24:49,941 And as I was describing sin for him, I said, listen, you're not 489 00:24:49,965 --> 00:24:53,733 going to hell because you took a piece of candy from the grocery 490 00:24:53,781 --> 00:24:54,489 store. 491 00:24:55,069 --> 00:24:56,197 It's not why. 492 00:24:56,333 --> 00:25:00,777 That's not the penalty of stealing from the grocery store. 493 00:25:00,873 --> 00:25:04,857 The reason why that you're going to hell because of your sin 494 00:25:04,953 --> 00:25:09,241 is because of what it is that caused you to take the candy from 495 00:25:09,265 --> 00:25:10,265 the candy store. 496 00:25:10,377 --> 00:25:14,329 You didn't take consideration that you are taking from someone 497 00:25:14,369 --> 00:25:14,585 else. 498 00:25:14,617 --> 00:25:17,897 You're not treating that store owner like you would want to be treated. 499 00:25:18,073 --> 00:25:21,069 In other words, I told him, it's selfishness. 500 00:25:21,969 --> 00:25:24,109 We are selfish by nature. 501 00:25:25,179 --> 00:25:31,479 That ultimately is why we are under the penalty of sin. 502 00:25:32,459 --> 00:25:34,319 The wages of sin is death. 503 00:25:36,699 --> 00:25:38,659 How to get right, how to keep right. 504 00:25:38,779 --> 00:25:40,131 Walk in the steps of Jesus. 505 00:25:40,195 --> 00:25:40,707 I was going. 506 00:25:40,763 --> 00:25:42,147 I know where I was going with that. 507 00:25:42,283 --> 00:25:46,131 All those Old Testament laws can be summed up into doing others, 508 00:25:46,235 --> 00:25:49,439 doing for others as you do unto others, as you do unto you. 509 00:25:51,189 --> 00:25:55,277 But even greater than that is if you'll just follow in the steps 510 00:25:55,293 --> 00:25:56,129 of Jesus. 511 00:25:58,149 --> 00:25:58,957 If you would. 512 00:25:59,013 --> 00:26:01,581 I know it was a popular saying when I was a kid, but what would 513 00:26:01,605 --> 00:26:05,821 Jesus do then? 514 00:26:05,845 --> 00:26:08,861 You will treat others as you would want to be treated, because 515 00:26:08,885 --> 00:26:10,169 that's what Jesus did. 516 00:26:10,549 --> 00:26:14,109 To love others as you would love yourself. 517 00:26:14,269 --> 00:26:14,589 Also. 518 00:26:14,629 --> 00:26:16,729 That will cure every marital problem. 519 00:26:18,509 --> 00:26:20,969 You treat your spouse like you would want to be treated. 520 00:26:22,269 --> 00:26:24,197 Solve your marital problems. 521 00:26:24,373 --> 00:26:25,125 There you go. 522 00:26:25,197 --> 00:26:26,809 Marriage advice for tonight. 523 00:26:27,869 --> 00:26:29,369 The Bible's relevant. 524 00:26:30,509 --> 00:26:32,529 It's relevant again. 525 00:26:32,829 --> 00:26:33,797 It's our food. 526 00:26:33,853 --> 00:26:35,489 It's our spiritual food. 527 00:26:35,789 --> 00:26:38,981 Many Christians are starving because they're not eating. 528 00:26:39,045 --> 00:26:42,289 They're not eating of the spiritual food that they need. 529 00:26:45,879 --> 00:26:51,179 You need the Bible and you need to read it in order to grow. 530 00:26:53,079 --> 00:26:55,979 There's so much more here and I'm running out of time. 531 00:26:56,439 --> 00:26:58,099 I'm thankful for the Bible. 532 00:26:58,839 --> 00:27:01,099 The Bible is an amazing book. 533 00:27:02,039 --> 00:27:03,359 The Bible is alive. 534 00:27:03,439 --> 00:27:04,255 The Bible says. 535 00:27:04,327 --> 00:27:05,823 It says of itself, it's alive. 536 00:27:05,871 --> 00:27:09,033 It has power, his power. 537 00:27:09,121 --> 00:27:12,149 John 6:68 says, it has the power to give life. 538 00:27:13,329 --> 00:27:18,789 Imagine that the Bible is a supernatural book. 539 00:27:19,569 --> 00:27:21,949 Not only is it a lie, but it's animated. 540 00:27:22,769 --> 00:27:24,909 Don't you just love the Old Testament stories? 541 00:27:25,809 --> 00:27:29,229 Don't you just love the history that's found in the Old Testament? 542 00:27:29,809 --> 00:27:34,515 One of the proofs the Bible is accurate, by the way, is that all 543 00:27:34,587 --> 00:27:40,579 those history events in the Old Testament are still there because 544 00:27:40,619 --> 00:27:43,239 the Jews are the caretakers of the Old Testament. 545 00:27:44,059 --> 00:27:47,763 I mean, if I was a Jew, I might would have changed some of 546 00:27:47,771 --> 00:27:48,759 those stories. 547 00:27:50,779 --> 00:27:52,719 That's what other historians do. 548 00:27:53,579 --> 00:27:54,451 Amen. 549 00:27:54,595 --> 00:27:56,719 Okay, nobody wants to talk about it. 550 00:27:59,189 --> 00:28:01,597 Truths again. 551 00:28:01,733 --> 00:28:03,533 Lastly, it's absolute. 552 00:28:03,661 --> 00:28:10,689 The Bible is dogmatic in that it is of no private interpretation. 553 00:28:11,749 --> 00:28:15,261 If you have a scripture or you have a group of scriptures, there 554 00:28:15,285 --> 00:28:18,285 is going to be an interpretation and that interpretation 555 00:28:18,317 --> 00:28:21,369 is going to be the same no matter who's interpreting it. 556 00:28:21,669 --> 00:28:23,629 It's a no private interpretation. 557 00:28:23,709 --> 00:28:27,553 It may have several applications, but its interpretation 558 00:28:27,601 --> 00:28:28,669 will be the same. 559 00:28:29,609 --> 00:28:31,229 And we need to remember that. 560 00:28:31,529 --> 00:28:32,945 Oh, I think it means. 561 00:28:33,017 --> 00:28:36,109 Or I think it means again, the applications can be different. 562 00:28:36,569 --> 00:28:37,649 No, but it has one. 563 00:28:37,689 --> 00:28:38,273 It's absolute. 564 00:28:38,321 --> 00:28:39,905 The Bible's dogmatic. 565 00:28:40,097 --> 00:28:40,497 J. 566 00:28:40,553 --> 00:28:43,905 Frank Norris, the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Fort 567 00:28:43,937 --> 00:28:49,217 Worth in the 20s, 30s, 40s and early 50s, largest church in America 568 00:28:49,233 --> 00:28:50,029 at the time. 569 00:28:50,489 --> 00:28:53,117 He also passed pastored the Temple Baptist Church in Detroit, 570 00:28:53,133 --> 00:28:56,285 Michigan at the same time, which was the second largest church 571 00:28:56,317 --> 00:28:57,329 in America. 572 00:28:58,309 --> 00:29:00,809 Pastored both churches at the same time. 573 00:29:02,389 --> 00:29:05,489 That's why our seminary is called Norris Seminary. 574 00:29:06,149 --> 00:29:08,029 He used to say this all the time. 575 00:29:08,149 --> 00:29:11,773 If someone says there's a contradiction in the Bible, they're 576 00:29:11,821 --> 00:29:13,009 the contradiction. 577 00:29:14,309 --> 00:29:15,021 I like it. 578 00:29:15,045 --> 00:29:18,887 Don't you Just pretty simple, the contradicting the Bible, they're 579 00:29:18,903 --> 00:29:20,059 the contradiction. 580 00:29:21,119 --> 00:29:24,087 Psalm 119 says the Bible will keep us from sin. 581 00:29:24,263 --> 00:29:28,151 Psalm 119, 105 says the Bible is our guide for life. 582 00:29:28,255 --> 00:29:29,351 It's our map. 583 00:29:29,495 --> 00:29:30,407 It's our gps. 584 00:29:30,503 --> 00:29:34,359 And unlike your GPS in your car or on your phone, it will not 585 00:29:34,399 --> 00:29:39,271 lead you astray, leave you out in the middle of a field or try to 586 00:29:39,295 --> 00:29:40,619 drive you into a pond. 587 00:29:42,969 --> 00:29:47,969 Also won't talk to you funny or be mean to you. 588 00:29:48,089 --> 00:29:49,489 Is your GPS mean to you? 589 00:29:49,529 --> 00:29:53,665 Like just never nice like please turn. 590 00:29:53,737 --> 00:29:54,417 No, no, no. 591 00:29:54,473 --> 00:29:55,697 Please turn here. 592 00:29:55,753 --> 00:29:57,189 You know, okay. 593 00:30:00,729 --> 00:30:02,669 The Bible's our guide for life. 594 00:30:03,129 --> 00:30:05,169 It's our map, it's our roadmap. 595 00:30:05,329 --> 00:30:09,409 It's our instruction book for marriage and kids and finances and 596 00:30:09,449 --> 00:30:11,069 job and trials and death. 597 00:30:12,659 --> 00:30:14,199 It's an amazing book. 598 00:30:14,979 --> 00:30:17,963 In second Peter, if you're still there, maybe you're starring 599 00:30:18,011 --> 00:30:19,083 Peter or close to it. 600 00:30:19,171 --> 00:30:20,379 If you're in Timothy, you're close. 601 00:30:20,419 --> 00:30:23,051 Look at two Peter with me, chapter one. 602 00:30:23,235 --> 00:30:25,479 And let's look at verse 21. 603 00:30:31,699 --> 00:30:33,243 We'll go backwards just a little bit. 604 00:30:33,331 --> 00:30:35,399 Go to verse 19. 605 00:30:36,509 --> 00:30:38,693 Second Peter 1:19. 606 00:30:38,781 --> 00:30:42,933 We have also a more sure word of prophecy. 607 00:30:43,061 --> 00:30:46,197 Whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth 608 00:30:46,213 --> 00:30:49,301 in a dark place until the day dawn and the day star arise in your 609 00:30:49,325 --> 00:30:52,373 hearts, knowing this first that no Prophecy of the scripture 610 00:30:52,421 --> 00:30:54,133 is of any private interpretation. 611 00:30:54,261 --> 00:30:55,765 I just quoted that a while ago. 612 00:30:55,917 --> 00:30:59,829 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but 613 00:30:59,869 --> 00:31:04,105 holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 614 00:31:04,217 --> 00:31:06,537 It's amazing that Peter would say that you. 615 00:31:06,593 --> 00:31:09,977 That we, because of the word of God, we have a more sure word 616 00:31:09,993 --> 00:31:11,509 of prophecy than they had. 617 00:31:13,009 --> 00:31:15,669 They got to see the Lord, they got to hear him talk. 618 00:31:16,049 --> 00:31:18,473 And yet he is saying we have a more sure word. 619 00:31:18,601 --> 00:31:20,749 And that's because we have the complete word. 620 00:31:21,409 --> 00:31:22,949 It's an amazing book. 621 00:31:23,409 --> 00:31:24,869 It's an amazing book. 622 00:31:25,329 --> 00:31:26,709 An amazing book. 623 00:31:28,219 --> 00:31:28,595 Dr. 624 00:31:28,627 --> 00:31:30,003 Barber used to say all the time. 625 00:31:30,091 --> 00:31:32,659 God wrote the book, man. 626 00:31:32,699 --> 00:31:34,239 What a profound statement. 627 00:31:34,619 --> 00:31:35,747 Profound statement. 628 00:31:35,883 --> 00:31:39,079 I love when he used to say, I love to quote Jesus. 629 00:31:40,299 --> 00:31:40,995 Pray for Dr. 630 00:31:41,027 --> 00:31:41,719 Barber. 631 00:31:43,099 --> 00:31:44,195 The Bible's preserved. 632 00:31:44,227 --> 00:31:45,235 We already went over that. 633 00:31:45,307 --> 00:31:48,159 There are many scriptures you can look up on that. 634 00:31:48,699 --> 00:31:53,651 The Bible is again, by the Holy Spirit, we are given illumination. 635 00:31:53,715 --> 00:31:56,199 In other words, it's the Holy Spirit of God. 636 00:31:56,859 --> 00:32:00,051 When we're saved and the Holy Spirit comes and indwells us, it 637 00:32:00,075 --> 00:32:02,451 is the Holy Spirit of God that helps us to understand the scripture. 638 00:32:02,515 --> 00:32:05,971 Jesus said, I must go away, that I might send you a comforter. 639 00:32:06,115 --> 00:32:08,739 That I might send you one who will lead you into all truth. 640 00:32:08,819 --> 00:32:11,159 The Holy Spirit is there to illuminate. 641 00:32:11,499 --> 00:32:12,403 To illuminate. 642 00:32:12,451 --> 00:32:13,491 To help us understand. 643 00:32:13,595 --> 00:32:14,259 You understand? 644 00:32:14,379 --> 00:32:16,883 And I know we say this again a lot from the pulpit. 645 00:32:16,931 --> 00:32:20,925 The preacher doesn't have some kind of special, you know, ninja 646 00:32:20,957 --> 00:32:23,421 skills when it comes to interpreting scripture. 647 00:32:23,485 --> 00:32:24,045 Right? 648 00:32:24,197 --> 00:32:25,901 No, we all can do it. 649 00:32:26,085 --> 00:32:27,501 Anybody can do it. 650 00:32:27,605 --> 00:32:29,565 Because you have the same Holy Spirit that I have. 651 00:32:29,637 --> 00:32:33,101 You have the same Holy Spirit that your Sunday school teacher has. 652 00:32:33,285 --> 00:32:34,157 Absolutely. 653 00:32:34,253 --> 00:32:37,181 Holy Spirit will illuminate you, help you to understand, just 654 00:32:37,205 --> 00:32:38,649 as he helps me to understand. 655 00:32:42,869 --> 00:32:44,061 And then translation. 656 00:32:44,125 --> 00:32:45,529 And I'll end with this one. 657 00:32:45,999 --> 00:32:49,899 There are two ways in which to translate the Bible. 658 00:32:50,559 --> 00:32:51,959 And these are fancy words. 659 00:32:52,039 --> 00:32:54,379 One's called dynamic equivalency. 660 00:32:54,879 --> 00:32:59,255 These are versions of the Bible that were translated thought 661 00:32:59,327 --> 00:33:00,167 for thought. 662 00:33:00,303 --> 00:33:04,727 If you have an niv, the NIV was translated thought for thought, 663 00:33:04,783 --> 00:33:09,739 not word for word, which in and of itself makes it a bad translation. 664 00:33:10,479 --> 00:33:11,559 In fact, a very bad. 665 00:33:11,599 --> 00:33:13,479 I think the NIV is one of the worst translations. 666 00:33:13,559 --> 00:33:16,853 That there is, my personal opinion. 667 00:33:16,901 --> 00:33:19,649 But that would also be the opinion of many others. 668 00:33:20,989 --> 00:33:25,861 Then there is the formal equivalency, and that is translations 669 00:33:25,925 --> 00:33:27,541 that are word for word translations. 670 00:33:27,605 --> 00:33:28,929 And that's what you want. 671 00:33:29,309 --> 00:33:32,249 I want what God said, not what somebody thinks. 672 00:33:33,869 --> 00:33:35,845 I want what God said, not what somebody thinks. 673 00:33:35,877 --> 00:33:36,929 That God said. 674 00:33:38,909 --> 00:33:40,843 And so the King James Bible. 675 00:33:40,891 --> 00:33:44,971 The King James Version is a word for word translation. 676 00:33:45,115 --> 00:33:47,451 You'll notice sometimes in your King James Bible there'll be 677 00:33:47,475 --> 00:33:48,799 some words in italics. 678 00:33:49,539 --> 00:33:51,003 You see those words in italics. 679 00:33:51,051 --> 00:33:52,843 Those are not in the original print. 680 00:33:52,891 --> 00:33:55,999 Those are there by the translators to help it flow. 681 00:33:56,579 --> 00:33:59,719 So that is one of the areas you might want to be aware of. 682 00:34:01,699 --> 00:34:03,995 And it will tell you that in the front of your King James Bible 683 00:34:04,027 --> 00:34:07,573 somewhere, it'll give you a little, little blurb there that kind 684 00:34:07,581 --> 00:34:08,689 of help you to understand. 685 00:34:08,989 --> 00:34:11,209 But it's a word for word translation. 686 00:34:11,869 --> 00:34:16,405 I believe the King James Bible to be the inerrant, inspired, inerrant, 687 00:34:16,437 --> 00:34:18,693 infallible word of God in the English language. 688 00:34:18,821 --> 00:34:23,237 I believe the King James Version to be the most honest translation. 689 00:34:23,413 --> 00:34:27,509 I believe the King James to be the best translation. 690 00:34:27,669 --> 00:34:30,517 And we use it at Heritage Baptist Church exclusively. 691 00:34:30,693 --> 00:34:33,173 Not just because I believe it to be the best translation. 692 00:34:33,221 --> 00:34:37,347 There are many others who still believe that, but also because 693 00:34:37,483 --> 00:34:39,479 it keeps us all on the same page. 694 00:34:39,819 --> 00:34:42,659 You don't have multiple translations in different Sunday 695 00:34:42,699 --> 00:34:44,483 school classes and in different things. 696 00:34:44,571 --> 00:34:49,667 So that when you are following along, which you should follow along, 697 00:34:49,723 --> 00:34:53,731 whether it's in your Bible or on your phone, follow along and that 698 00:34:53,755 --> 00:34:54,899 way you don't get confused. 699 00:34:54,979 --> 00:34:56,003 It's amazing to me. 700 00:34:56,091 --> 00:34:59,683 Many of the new translations will use entirely different words 701 00:34:59,811 --> 00:35:03,507 or they'll leave whole verses out and you're going, that verse 702 00:35:03,523 --> 00:35:04,579 is not even in my Bible. 703 00:35:04,659 --> 00:35:06,599 Well, that's because you got a bad Bible. 704 00:35:07,179 --> 00:35:07,859 Alright? 705 00:35:07,939 --> 00:35:10,115 And I'm being kind of sarcastic. 706 00:35:10,307 --> 00:35:14,195 But the King James Bible, the King James version of the Bible is, 707 00:35:14,267 --> 00:35:18,039 I believe, the inspired, infallible, inerrant word of God 708 00:35:18,939 --> 00:35:20,387 in the English language. 709 00:35:20,483 --> 00:35:20,867 Okay? 710 00:35:20,883 --> 00:35:25,011 There's some other preachers who take this way too far who say, 711 00:35:25,035 --> 00:35:27,813 well, it's the inspired, inerrant word of God in every language. 712 00:35:27,931 --> 00:35:29,389 Oh, come on. 713 00:35:30,009 --> 00:35:32,177 You know that's not the case. 714 00:35:32,313 --> 00:35:36,721 And there's some others who take it too far and say that the 715 00:35:36,745 --> 00:35:40,629 King James translators were inspired by God. 716 00:35:41,529 --> 00:35:43,669 It's called secondary inspiration. 717 00:35:44,169 --> 00:35:46,109 And that is just. 718 00:35:46,489 --> 00:35:47,377 I'm being. 719 00:35:47,513 --> 00:35:48,709 I'm going to be nice. 720 00:35:49,529 --> 00:35:50,673 That's just wrong. 721 00:35:50,801 --> 00:35:53,589 The King James translators were not inspired. 722 00:35:54,109 --> 00:35:55,849 God used preservation. 723 00:35:56,269 --> 00:36:02,597 He preserved his word by using good men, good godly men to preserve 724 00:36:02,613 --> 00:36:08,549 his word, to write down, to translate and do so in a manner that 725 00:36:08,589 --> 00:36:11,845 preserved exactly how God intended for it to be. 726 00:36:11,917 --> 00:36:13,129 Does that make sense? 727 00:36:13,469 --> 00:36:15,765 So we have the inspired, inerrant word of God in the English 728 00:36:15,797 --> 00:36:17,609 language because of preservation. 729 00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:22,659 Preservation because God said he would preserve his word. 730 00:36:23,959 --> 00:36:25,231 There's so Much more to it. 731 00:36:25,255 --> 00:36:28,655 Most of you we've had one on one conversations about text tongues 732 00:36:28,687 --> 00:36:29,343 and translators. 733 00:36:29,391 --> 00:36:32,419 That's my the three point outline I use with everybody. 734 00:36:33,479 --> 00:36:43,299 And I'm thankful for a Bible that is accurate, reliable, trustworthy, 735 00:36:45,089 --> 00:36:54,509 absolute, relevant, amazing, miraculous, stupendous. 736 00:36:57,569 --> 00:36:58,949 An amazing book. 737 00:36:59,249 --> 00:37:05,305 I'm amazed over 30 years in the ministry of how many lives I've 738 00:37:05,337 --> 00:37:08,749 seen transformed by the word of God. 739 00:37:09,649 --> 00:37:12,457 And I'm not talking about just alcoholics and druggies, I'm talking 740 00:37:12,473 --> 00:37:16,215 about every life that it transforms. 741 00:37:16,247 --> 00:37:17,539 It's an amazing book. 742 00:37:18,079 --> 00:37:24,551 As I said, Sunday morning music can inspire, there's some good 743 00:37:24,575 --> 00:37:26,979 movies out there that can inspire you. 744 00:37:27,839 --> 00:37:30,019 But the Bible does much more than that. 745 00:37:31,439 --> 00:37:37,559 It inspires you and then gives you the ability and the power to 746 00:37:37,599 --> 00:37:38,499 follow through. 747 00:37:40,489 --> 00:37:43,789 It tells you what to do but it also gives you the power to do it. 748 00:37:44,329 --> 00:37:45,869 It's an amazing book. 749 00:37:46,809 --> 00:37:47,809 It's an amazing book. 750 00:37:47,849 --> 00:37:49,953 Alright, let's all stand, we'll have a verse invitation. 751 00:37:50,081 --> 00:37:54,149 God has given us this word understandable and reliable. 752 00:37:54,569 --> 00:37:56,909 God has given us a roadmap for life. 753 00:37:57,689 --> 00:38:01,057 You say, well you know I read this self help book or you know, 754 00:38:01,193 --> 00:38:04,731 this guy on the television program said this and it's not what 755 00:38:04,755 --> 00:38:05,339 the Bible says. 756 00:38:05,379 --> 00:38:07,479 Well I'm going to choose the Bible every time. 757 00:38:09,139 --> 00:38:11,839 And we are to live our lives according to the word of God. 758 00:38:12,899 --> 00:38:15,579 Because when we do that, when we follow the word of God, when we 759 00:38:15,619 --> 00:38:19,019 live our lives according to the word of God, then that puts us 760 00:38:19,059 --> 00:38:21,039 under the promises of the Bible. 761 00:38:21,619 --> 00:38:24,971 That puts us under the blessings of the Bible. 762 00:38:25,115 --> 00:38:27,115 And that's where I want to be, don't you? 763 00:38:27,267 --> 00:38:30,319 I want to be there under the spigot. 764 00:38:31,059 --> 00:38:35,371 I want to be under the faucet where the blessings are if we follow 765 00:38:35,395 --> 00:38:35,755 the Bible. 766 00:38:35,787 --> 00:38:38,523 Heavenly Father, we thank you for the time we've had and studying 767 00:38:38,571 --> 00:38:38,907 your Word. 768 00:38:38,923 --> 00:38:41,931 Tonight I pray God that you would again work within each of our 769 00:38:41,955 --> 00:38:42,427 hearts. 770 00:38:42,523 --> 00:38:46,439 Lord, help us to see the importance as a church to continue 771 00:38:46,739 --> 00:38:52,571 to keep safe and to guard the truth, to pass that truth on. 772 00:38:52,675 --> 00:38:54,331 But Lord, we thank you for the Bible. 773 00:38:54,475 --> 00:38:58,053 We thank you for its miracle working power in our own lives. 774 00:38:58,141 --> 00:39:01,317 Lord, may we follow it and we thank you in Jesus name. 775 00:39:01,373 --> 00:39:01,909 Amen. 776 00:39:01,989 --> 00:39:02,149 Let's.