Now if you're interested in any of the, we have some Bible journals up here of the Russian Bible Society, a little pamphlet that mentions something about the Russian Bible Society, and also there are a few of the translations up here as well. We also brought, I was given when I labored in Scotland, a King James Version, I think So if you'd like to look at it, it's up here on the table beside the modern King James Version as well. I've been delighted to have the opportunity of fellowshiping with Dr. Waite, and thank God for some of the things he's putting in my own heart in these days. And I bless the Lord for just the opportunity of such fellowship and a conversation with our dear brother. And I certainly thank God for those who've gotten into the battle and given us some material whereby we can fire the guns back to the... To the folk who are trying to take away the Word of God from us, amen? Yes. I thank God for this ministry that our brother has, and I rejoice in it and rejoice in the opportunity of meeting him and fellowshipping with him and of course his precious wife. Third, if you will tonight, to the book of Jude, please, the little book of Jude. And we're going to take the time to read the first four verses of the book of Jude and bow in another word of prayer. Our comfort scene is the scriptures and the Savior. And of course the important thing to remember, whether it's the Old Testament Masoretic Text or the Received Text of the New Testament, what they take away many times is to take away the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Think of the words that were spoken of Christ when Mary went to the garden and asked the angels, where have they taken my Lord? Beloved, that's exactly what's happening, I believe, in this controversy. And I'll be honest with you, just a background, you know, I've been in so many controversies that sometimes you get weary. I mean, you get weary of battles. And when you look at all the controversies surrounding every one of these modern translations, if you're not careful, you'll chicken heart out and say, I'm just tired of fighting, and I'm just going to not really look into it, and so forth and so on. Well, God may well want us to do that battle for this generation and then for the succeeding generations for the glory of Himself. Amen? Because more is at stake here. then meets the eye on the surface, I believe. So God help us to put on armor of Ephesians 6, amen, and to take the sword of the Spirit. Now, which sword are you going to take? Praise God, I'm going to take the sword of the Spirit, amen, and to do battle against error and darkness, and again lift up the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. All right, the book of Jude, please, verse number 1. the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called. Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you and to exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Let's bow and just a word of prayer, please. Father, as we bow again and reflect upon that which we've already received from Your servant's hand, it's with deep gratefulness to Thee. Thank You, Father, for the privilege of being in this gathering tonight. Lord, you know what yet needs to be accomplished in our hearts. So we would simply submit ourselves to be used of your gracious Spirit. And O God, we ask you to use the Word in our hearts. And let us leave the gathering tonight magnifying the grace of our God and our Heavenly Father desiring to walk in the ways of the Lord. We shall thank Thee and praise Thee for what Thou didst do. Shelter us again under the blood of the Lamb of God. Fit us again with the blessed Holy Spirit of God. And we'll thank Thee in Jesus' name, Amen and Amen. Beloved, in this twentieth century, we have become very loose in our terminology. And I think we've become very loose in the terminology of apostasy. I know that in my own background I attended a school that fought the apostasy, but sometimes apostasy was anything that didn't agree with them. And that's a loose use of the terminology. And you know, we're all very careless sometimes, and God help us to use the terminology biblically. For example, in the 20th century, we talk about the apostate Methodist Church. Well, in reality, they're not trying to hurt your feelings if you're in a liberal Methodist Church. Just get out and you won't be hurt. The fact is, The Methodist Church is not apostate, it's simply liberal. That's right. And modernist in the biblical sense. Now, there was a day when it apostatized. That's right. Because the word apostate means to fall away, and it's found, of course, in 2 Thessalonians 2 about the falling away. Now, the thing that I want to bring to your heart is those usually in places of leadership in the Methodist Church today are simply unbelievers or modernists. That's right. But have you ever stopped to think, about twenty years ago I used to hear a lot about the modernists. Yes. But have you ever stopped to think whatever happened to those modernists? If you listen to our fundamental pulpits today, there's very little talk about modernism anymore. Is that not so? Well, let me tell you this. I believe that the old-fashioned modernist may be today's new evangelical. Now, you ponder closely what I'm saying. Because a man that will deny that the Bible is inherent and inspired Twenty years ago, he was called a modernist. Today, we still wouldn't even call him an evangelical. You say, I don't believe that. Well, you just read Harold Lindsell's Battle for the Bible. The Fuller Seminary departed from inerrancy. It's amazing. You read the literature, and you'll not find a word calling into question the salvation of those men that have departed from inerrancy. But beloved, we used not to hesitate, if a man didn't believe the Bible, to say that he was unconverted and lost. Amen? You see, there's a deeper issue about this whole Bible translation. We may be overlooking that God and His grace may need to bring to our heart again. Look at you in quickly at 2 Thessalonians. Keep your finger here, we're going to come back to Jude. Take a look at verse number 4. Look at you in quickly at 2 Thessalonians. Chapter number 2. Verse 1, Now we beseech you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there shall come a falling away first." That's where we get the word apostia in the Greek, and Brother Wake can correct me if I pronounce it wrong, which we get our English transliteration apostasy from. The falling away, that there shall not come except there be a falling away first, And that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalteth himself against all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he, as God's citizen of the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. And then notice, if you will, in the book of Hebrews, chapter 6, there's another translation of the word, to fall away, and it's found in Hebrews, chapter number 6. And let's see, for time's sake, verse number six, let's back up. For it is impossible, verse four, for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again to repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame." Now, this is a different Greek word, not the same Greek word apostate, but what I want to lay on your heart is that the falling away is twofold. It's a falling away, number one, from God. That's what it says here. They tasted the word of God, the powers of the world to come, and they fall away. And the second thing is the falling away from not only the revelator, which is God, but the falling away, secondly, from the revelation. Word is found in papyri documents, and it's referred to of those who were politically rebels. So in these last days, we're going to be faced with rebels against the revelators and the revelation. Notice what it says here in Hebrews 6. They were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come, if they shall follow me to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify unto themselves the Son of God afresh and put into an open shape. I like what John Owen says on this passage, the old Puritan. He said, these are folk who were made partakers of God's grace in gifts, but were never made partakers of God's grace in forgiveness. A similar group as referred to in Matthew 7, where the Lord Jesus says that not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. For many will say to me in thy name, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? Have we not cast out demons in thy name? Have we not done many wonderful works in thy name? And then the Lord said, Then I will profess unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me that work iniquity. Beloved, it's possible to enjoy some benefits of common grace, and yet not have the special grace of God in salvation. Amen. Remember in 2 Corinthians 11 and 15, we're reminded by the word of the Lord that, therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works. What are we talking about, all these supposed evangelicals, so handling the Word of God, I believe, deceitfully? What are we talking about? We're talking about their works, aren't we? And the Lord expressly says that those who are near to the right thing, but still utterly wrong, that his ministers, speaking of Satan's ministers, are transformed as the ministers of righteousness. But what ground has God judged them on, whose end shall be according to the works? Are you fond of that? You see, we've got I heard a recent figure that astounded me. We've got a professed 80 million evangelical population in America right now. I heard a figure earlier that was 40 to 45 million. And by the way, let me say a word about Pat Robertson right now. He's receiving money from the liquor crowd, the Coors Breweries. I can document that, I can't lay my hand on it right now, but I can look it up and find it. But notice there, "...and shall be according to the works." Above it, where a man can take God's Word and set aside the person of Jesus Christ and set aside large portions of it. You tell me he's not in rebellion to the Revelator. And he's not in rebellion to the revelation. A very mark of apostasy. Now let me hammer this a minute. You see, we have a tendency to think that the apostasy is 500 miles away. But the apostasy is going on right now. There's a falling away. Have you ever tried to link the falling away with our tremendous drift in standards? Praise God, you used to be able to look at a woman and see by the way she was dressed whether she was a man or a woman. That's her height. But even our so-called Christian schools are losing standards about dress. And I wonder if it's not tied to the same rejection of the Revelation. The Bible tells us it's a shame for a man to wear long hair. That's what the Bible tells us. Amen? And then these combinations of the long-haired crowd has moved into the fundamental circle as well. Amen? It's easy to find abortion and drug traffic, but it's very difficult in these days to deal with a gossiper in a local congregation. Or someone even living immorally in a local congregation. Few churches will deal with sin. And friends, we're in the midst of apostasy. Even if you say, where is it? It's in the middle of fundamentalism. There's a falling away in what's been called fundamentalism. Now stay with me, don't turn me off. Go back to the book of Gene, verse number four. How did they get there? How did these apostates get there? Verse number 4 of June says, For there are certain men... I'll go back into verse 3 first of all. He said, I wanted to exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Now, beloved, you can't have the faith unless you have the correct manuscripts. I mean, this book is the book of the faith. So the contention for the faith, and I realize it's a bonnet doctrine he's talking about here, but you can't contend for the faith unless you've got the manuscripts that are reliable to base the faith upon. And of course, the word here is that the faith was once for all delivered unto the saints. Just as Brother Reno has said, the translators of today's modern versions would have us believe that there was a period of time we lost the faith. We should be thankful that in 1881 they recovered the faith. They sound like Herbert W. Armstrong. That's exactly right. That's exactly what he said. There wasn't a true church. And they said, we haven't had a true translation for all these years. Until they came on the scene to give it to us latterly. But notice, how do these apostates get around this? Verse number 4, For there are certain men crept in, unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, nor kept in, means they got in by the side door, or to slip into a side door, according to Vincent's word study. Remember what Paul says in 2 Timothy 3, and we were looking at 2 Timothy 3 earlier on this week. In 2 Timothy 3, we find what's happening in the last days. And as a reminder at the end of 2 Timothy 3, that the Bible is given to us by inspiration, almost Scripture is given by inspiration. We don't need to know that in the last days. Amen? Yes. Now to me, what did he say in 2 Timothy 3? He said, for of this sort are they which creep into houses, and leading captive silly women laden with sin, led away with divers' lust." Right. But how did these folk get to the position to become Bible translators? Well, they were taught in these latter days that they must have been evangelical, love the word of God. Some of them say that in the preface of their translations, don't they? But let me ask you a question. I was reading a little bit of this last night. And Dr. Fuller, in the preface, says that he believes that Mr. Taylor is born again. We repeat what we said before. We believe Ken Taylor, the author of the Living Bible, is a born-again Christian. Now, beloved, I don't know any man's heart and you don't either. Right. But anybody that would change 70,000 places from our authorized version to that living Bible... Right. I have a serious doubt about his relationship to God. Right. I do, baby. Right. Are you playing with this? How did he get to that place? Because he's joining hands with Roman Catholics, the popular press. He publishes a magazine that has all kinds of Roman Catholic advertisements in it, a Christian bookseller it's called. Now friends, where is he going to stop? Is he going to stop with him kissing Papa's toe and giving him an autographed copy of the Living Bible? But what I'm trying to underline, you know, when a man varies from the standard of the Word of God, we need to measure him according to his works. Now let me just niggle something else down that's been bothering me, and you folks can help me if I'm wrong. I think it's presumption to join your name to the Holy Bible. whether it's a Schofield reference Bible or a Criswell or a John R. Rice Thompson chain. I mean, this is God's work. You ponder it. You correct me, but you know, we're living in days when men lay their hands easily to the Word of God. And what's it called? King Taylor's Living Bible. I mean, that's not put in the front of it. But that's the way it's referred to many times, is it? What presumption? What presumption? But these are creepers, amen? And they've creeped in. And why have they creeped in to do? They've creeped in to take away the faith. You see, the interdiction is to earnestly contend for the faith once for all delivered unto the saints. Isn't it amazing that in perhaps these last days of the last days, That we're being faced with a taking away of the faith by the very book that we read. It's incredible, isn't it? I was thinking of the scripture, and I guess it must be Psalms. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? And that's where the attack is. It's on the foundations, isn't it? That's why my brother stressed what he stressed about the received text. Oh, friends, the Lord Jesus said in John 10, verse number 1, verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some of the way, the same is a thief and a robber. We've got these creepers who are not coming in through bowing to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and repenting from their sin, and trusting the finished work of Jesus. And what are they? They're the same as a thief and a robber. Now, what are they doing? They're robbing God's Word from us! They're thieving God's Word from us! Amen? Remember what the Lord Jesus Christ, He said, the wearer of false prophets which comes to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Friend, you don't have to look for them, they look for you. I mean, how do these Bibles get out? Folks, take one in your hand. Say, have this one. Somebody recommends. They come looking for you, don't they? Some of us, of course, time has gone by, have gone to bookstores to buy them. But the recommendation comes, the promotion, and so forth comes. Paul said, in Acts 20, 29, he said, I know that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock, but also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. 2 Peter 2.1, But as there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies. You see, the apostate creeps in, and he's creeping in under the guise of being evangelical in our Bible translations. Now listen to me, listen to me well. There was not one evangelical that would receive the Revised Standard Version. That was translated in 46, the New Testament, in 56, I think, for the Old Testament, finally a complete Bible. You know why they wouldn't receive it? Because It was translated by the Council of Churches in the USA, the branch of the World Council of Churches, the Liberals. But the very same text underlining the RSV underlined the New American Standard Bible and the NIV. Now listen to me. What are our popular television and radio preachers preaching from? That's right. That's right. Crept in. Crept in? Crept in? Now, beloved, what are the marks of apostate, of false prophets, of false teachers? Look at Jude 4 again. They're ungodly men. Now, the word ungodly means destitute, of reverential awe towards God. Now hear me. Ungodliness means destitute of reverential awe toward God. Brother David Dickerson, the principal of Georgia Baptist College, wrote for his doctoral thesis a commentary on the book of Jude, which I've read and we've thought about publishing it. And I like his definition. He says, ungodliness is anything that is not totally approved by God. Ungodliness is anything that is not totally approved of by God. What's happening in our fundamental churches? Bobo the Clown. There will be several fundamental churches on Sunday. Who else will be there? Calico the Horse. That's right. Now listen to me. I labored in Great Britain for twelve and a half years, and those Scotsmen have got enough sense that Bobo the Clown and Calico the Horse have nothing to do with the worship of the true God. They may be lost and on their way to hell, but they would laugh us in our faces to think it has anything to do with God. They have at least got a background of a reverential fear or awe towards God. What about the preachers in the Sunday school superintendents? I was at a church one time where they had two dog houses on the platform. two dog houses. And the pastor and the Sunday school superintendents, if his group that he was leading didn't win the Sunday school contest that morning, he had to crawl into the dog house. I was at a church in Michigan where they were having the Sunday school contest, and my friend, they were cutting off the ties of each other. have been thrown in the faces of opposing teams in our Sunday morning services. Now listen to this. The apostasy is not 500 miles away, it's in the fundamental movement. That's right, Ernest. That's right. Gorgeous George comes to the service to get a crown. The tallest men are the shortest evangelists in the world. are riding motorbikes in the church. Right. Right. Now listen to me, beloved. We can laugh at it, but I'll tell you what. It's the very mark of an apostate. Right. There's no reverential fear toward God. Very strong. That's right. You see, our churches today are like circuses. Right. Now hear me well, you don't go into a Hindu temple and act like you're going to a bunch of chickens to a feeding time. You don't even go into a South Roman Catholic Church behaving in that manner. But there's a total lack in fundamentalism of reverential awe to God. We don't come to worship, we come to win the prize. We don't come to pray, we come to play the game. Amen. We don't come to praise God, we come to raise the number. You see, ungodliness means more than just being immoral and wicked. In fact, it's possible to be utterly conformed to religious principles and the heart attitude be entirely wrong. You know, some of us, when we haven't got things straightened up at home, with our wives and our kids, come to God's house with a heart attitude that's wrong, we're coming ungodly. are ungodly men. Now hear me again. To take... Did you hear how the Hebrews handled the Masoretic text? Yes. You say, well that's going overboard. Now listen, we don't worship this Bible. We're not Bible idolaters, but there's no way you know about Jesus Christ except from this Bible. Amen? Beloved, 2nd Timothy 3.5 says that one of the marks of the latter days is having a form of godliness. They're denying the power thereof. To take this Bible, and with their red pen, to mark through this word, to mark out that word? My friend, the word of form means morphism, that means a prescribed system. The same word was found in Romans 2.20, talking about a form of knowledge concerning the orthodoxy of Jewry. Quiet! You ask the average fundamentalist, and he's got an orthodox tree in his hand! Yes. But he doesn't get down to his feet. Right, right. I've never heard of more fundamental preachers in my life than one and all from the pianist, or the church secretary. Amen. Right, right. Having a form of godliness, but he denies the power thereof. The lemonary mark of an apostate is indeed denying the power of God. He denies it in salvation. He talks about the new birth, but in reality he denies the powerful work of the Holy Spirit of God. Now hear me well. I'm talking about a fundamentalist crowd. John Wright put out a little paper for women, his girls edited it. Someone wrote in and said, I led my children to Christ," or so forth, and there doesn't seem to be any change. One of the doctors wrote back, don't worry about a change. But rather the Bible says that any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. All things pass away and all things become new. Now whether it's a child or an adult, there'll be a change, if there's a real conversion. If it's a little lip service and a head decision, that's all you've got is lip service and a head decision. But in the genuine work of God, there'll be a new creation. Let me illustrate it. I've got a daughter, she's 21 years old now. She professed to be saved in one of our summer camps in Scotland. But I don't believe she got in. We didn't have a television set, and she would read in the summertime five or six books a week. She never read the Bible. I didn't see, I didn't know what she was reading. It wasn't filthy or anything, just Danny Orlis and all that sort of thing, you know. Five or six a week. We got into a Holy Ghost meeting that had been going on for four weeks. And I'll tell you, God got a hold of her heart and she fell before God in repentance and faith. And that first year, she almost read the Bible all the way through. In one year. Never saying, Daddy, I don't want to go to church. She wasn't rebellious in that way, but she didn't have a new heart. She had no appetite for God's Word. But that's what we're faced with today. The average son of the middle church is trying to prop up folk who've never been saved. And how does he prop them up? With all the clubs? And the breakfasts? Amen! The jake cadets and all that? That's right! And the men's breakfasts? And the ladies' fellowships? Or missionary fellowships where they get together and gossip? They don't pray for missionaries! Right! But brethren, let me tell you, we're in trouble, because we deny, as the prostate denies the power of a holy, guested God. He has a form of godliness, a rank doctrine of creed. It doesn't seem to make any difference whether he's an Armenian or a Calvinist. He doesn't seem to have the power of God. Amen. Let me show you another way it's denied. One of the principals, one of the largest schools in America, fundamental schools, and they even have a standard about how you dress and which Bible you use. He said, and I heard him say it, while you're waiting on the Holy Spirit to convict somebody, go out and win half a dozen. Yes. Now let me tell you, it's absolutely impossible to be saved. from the working of the Spirit of God, because you must be born again. Amen? What does that tell me? It tells me he doesn't know the gospel. That's what it tells me. He'd never make a statement like that. There will be the convicting work of the Spirit of God, there will be the drawing work, there will be the regenerating work, there will be the renewing work of God, Holy Spirit. We're talking about the apostate. He denies the power thereof. He denies an incentivization. The fundamentalist, for the most part, is interested in the externals. Baptism, church attendance, tithing, faithfulness. Remember, The Lord Jesus Christ said that except our righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, we shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. Right. You remember that one Pharisee who tithed of everything he possessed and fasted twice a week? He ought to be a good Baptist deacon. But Jesus says he was a saint. Right. Do you see or hear what I'm saying? We're in a position where there's a denying of the power and the work of the Holy Ghost. And friend, you can't just pull the cord and the Holy Ghost come on the scene. That's right. That's right. According to John 3, the wind bloweth where it wishteth, and you can hear the sound, but you can't tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth. And so is everyone that's born of the Spirit of God. He's a free spirit. He's a free spirit. But we measure everything many times by externals in our churches. And I'll tell you what God does when He works a work in your heart. You love Jesus. Now where do you see Him? You see Him in this book. The Holy Ghost reveals Him to you as you study the Word of God, meditate on the Word of God, memorize the Word of God. That's where you see Him. And what happens if there's communion with Him? What are we going to do in Heaven? We're going to worship Him. And a real born-again person delights to worship the Lord, delights to gather around where His Word is proclaimed and preached. And friends, when there's a real work of the Spirit of God, He'll be filled with the Spirit, and He'll walk in the Spirit, and He'll be led by the Spirit. But what have we got? We've got our programs to prophesy and convert, to try to make it look like everything's all right. But then notice something else about the apostate, quickly, in verse 4 of Jude. He turns the grace of our God into lasciviousness. Of course, the word lasciviousness means unbridled lust. The word turns means he transposes it, and he turns the grace of God into lasciviousness. It's a person who acknowledges no restraints. I like what Martin Luther said. He said, Here I stand, and I can do no other. He said, My conscience is bound by the Word of God. But do you know what an apostate does? He uses grace as a license for sin. I was talking, hearing a man speak at a conference recently, and sometimes he'll have 10,000 to his gatherings. And he says the number one thing he's meeting all across America, people walking up to him at those conferences and saying, I feel like God wants me to marry my secretary and leave my wife. He says, he quotes Exodus chapter 20, the seventh commandment to them, thou shalt not commit adultery. And he says the invariable reply is you're bringing me under the law. What is that? What have we developed? Right. If a man lives like hell and dies, he's gonna go to hell. That's right. Amen. Our doctrine of security is not a biblical doctrine of security. Because Jesus said he'll give us eternal life. And we have the life of God in ourselves. A man that's living like he's still in the pit is still in the pit. Amen. But what have we done? We've rejected the moral law of God and all ten of the commandments except for the one about the keeping of the Sabbath day holy is written in the New Testament. Amen. But we've rejected the moral law of God. Men do not know what sin are, and to sin we turn the grace of God into lasciviousness, no restraints. The carnal Christian theory is a turning of the grace of God into lasciviousness. Amen? Now there is a carnal Christian, but it's an act of carnality, it's not a lifestyle of carnality. A man, David, committed adultery, but he, as far as I know, he only committed adultery once, and came to repentance over that incident and the work of God the rest of his life, for what he had sown he reaped in his children. That's right. He didn't pursue his adultery when confronted by the man of God and brought to repentance through the preaching of the man of God. Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin, the Bible says. His seed remaineth in him. And he cannot sin because he is born of God. What about our modern backsliding theory? Oh, we've got more backsliders than we've got church members. That's right. You look at the average role. I said to my pastor, before I became a pastor, we're going out on a visitation. I said, Brother Joe, why don't we go visit all these members who don't come to our church? Why don't we just knock on the door? At least we're going to have a little bit of leverage with some of these folks that aren't members of our church. That's an all-Bomb Coast call. What is it? Turning the grace of God into lasciviousness? Now, down in the South, we've got a favorite phrase, so-and-so's not living right. You know what my answer is? They're not right. That's right, because he that doeth righteousness is born of God. Amen? But we've got all these accommodating theories. Jesus said again, not everyone that saith unto me, Lord of all, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. Spurgeon said this, if a professed convert says he knows the will of God, and that he does not mean to attend to it, he said don't pamper him in his presumption, tell him he's lost and going to hell. Well, we need that sharpness that this whole book has, doesn't it? We've cut off the edges, we've made excuses, we've pared it down until it's palatable to the religious. I'll tell you why some folks are not here tonight. They're lost. They're not only losing a blessing, they're lost. They have no appetite for God's Word. Hey man, a football game, they get to that. Hey man, hear me. We've got to stop making excuses. You know, we're going to let our folk go to hell and our families go to hell by making excuses for their sins. And that's an act of apostasy. I'm going to quickly now try to close. Notice the Bible says in the next verse, or next part of the verse, deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. That is interesting in this book that Dr. Wade gave me and I looked at last night. When King Taylor came to translating the Greek word kurios, which is the word translated for Lord, there's 150 times it's used in our New Testament. Out of the 150 opportunities he had, he only translated it Lord 64 times. which means out of 150 times, he had a 42.5% accuracy, or a 57.5% error. He translated the word Master, Sir, God, Jesus Christ, Messiah, Jesus, and he omitted translating it 23 times, denying the only Lord, God, and every one of these translations have a goal at the time that the name of the Lord is translated. Isn't that amazing? They can just leave it out, and their conscience doesn't even bother them. That's a mock and apostate. Denying the only Lord God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Denied! Taking away the Lord from within. Beloved, I'll tell you why we're in the mess we're in. Because we're living in the midst of the apostasy. We're living in the midst of it. Right. And we haven't got enough biblical sense to know what's going on. Notice it's the only Lord God. That's His sovereignty. I believe He's sovereign. Not only in giving us an inspired Bible, but sovereign in preserving it. Amen. But you mention sovereignty in some areas, and as Paisley says, you either got a duck or pucker. And even in the fundamental camp, you mention the word sovereignty and you either duck or pucker. Amen. And you put sovereign and grace together, and you've got a double law on your hands. Amen. But notice that the mark of the apostate is he denies the only Lord God. You know what the problem is? We don't want God to be God today. I said it many, many times. What everybody in America wants is to die and to go to heaven, but live like they want to live between now and then. Now let me tell you this. If you're going to heaven, God will change you here below. The hyper-Calvinists primitive Baptist Tell us that the feather can get saved and never know it been saved and live like the devil all his life and then go to heaven Salvation on the doctor of election instead of the work of Jesus Christ and the work of the Holy Ghost and the purchase of the fundamentals are not much from that Make a little decision And live like the devil and come to church when you feel like it, if it doesn't interrupt your schedule. Give a little bit when it's convenient. Pray when you get into trouble. And don't cuss too much. At least when the pastor's around. You're laughing, but it's the truth of God that you... Who's in the jailhouse down here? Some brethren? Some Baptists? Some Presbyterians? Who's in the bars? Some brethren? Some Presbyterians? Some Baptists? We've got a religion that won't cause us to live life, and it's apostasy. So why should it be thought an unreasonable thing in these last days that we also have apostate translations? It's just a reflection of the church. Have you ever wondered why we don't have these standards? The holiness ladies used to keep their arms covered all the way down to the wrist. Because they believed the Bible taught modesty. Most of those in the Pentecostal movement now have got the New International or the Living Bible. There's no stress on modesty. They stole modesty away from the women. And they've done it for corrupt translation. Oh God, help us deceive. We're living in fearful times. I bless God for the power of His Word, don't you? I appreciate what the doctor said. When it comes to an ultimate choice, it's faith, isn't it? It's faith. And one of the evidences of the power of God's word is its power. I close with this illustration about one of the translations of the Maori scriptures back in 1832. It says the New Testament was completed by 1839. Of the whole population then, about 180,000, only about 45,000 were in touch with Christian missionaries. These are the Mayors in Australia. But from the start of that encounter, it almost seemed that this fierce and warlike people were destined to be Christians. Though without any contact with a teacher or missionary, one whole tribe came across a page containing the Ten Commandments, and were led at once to throw their idols in the next fire they made, and to set aside Sunday. has a day of rest. I mean, that's just the power of the Word of God, unobstructed, the nation Word of God. Now let me tell you what we need to do. We need to propagate it. Praise God for this conference, for the defense. Amen? But if there's any way we're going to win the battle, it's by propagating the truth of God. Get you a handful of tracks. Get filled with the Holy Ghost. Get you a prayer closet. Amen. And get rid of doing the last marching orders of the Lord before He ascended to glory and gave those commands to those churches in Revelation 2 and 3. Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. That's found in Mark 16. that the liberals would steal from us. And he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned. Glory to the gospel of God's grace. That will put more air to fly than all of our conferences on defense. God help us. Let's pray. Father, we're so grateful tonight Again, from what we've heard, what we've sensed, have your spirits moving? Oh God, in these dark days of the creature and the stealing of your foundation from underneath us, these men seem to be ungodly men. Forgive us, grace. Go on. Preach the truth of God with the glory and praise of God. Our Father, give us a joy of saving many blood-honored lives in the marvelous name of Christ Jesus. Amen.