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Dr. Lincoln, it's good to be
here in this fine church tonight. I've been looking forward to
it. Great anticipation. I'm from Texas, and that's two
strikes against you when you get up this country, but anyway,
I'll take a chance on it tonight. I guess I ought to start with
a tall Texas tail. Thought somebody would be for
that. Some time ago, a number of pilots
were sitting around the ready room in one of our airports talking
about some of the problems that they had faced in flying and
their greatest difficulty. And a number of them gave some
interesting experiences and some close calls that they had had
and some problems that they had encountered in flying. Finally, one fellow hadn't said
too much, and so it got around to his turn, and they asked him
what his experience had been that he'd like to tell them about. And he told them that, I guess,
the closest experience he ever had, the most difficult, was
flying twenty-five Texans up to Chicago from Dallas. And of course they couldn't figure
out any problem about that, so they asked him to enlarge upon
it. He said the plane that he was supposed to bring them in
developed engine trouble, and nothing else was available. And they were searching everywhere
for a plane, or these Texans had to be in Chicago. For some
reason or other, very urgently, they were urging everything be
done on their behalf to get a plane and get them to Chicago. And he said, it's very interesting
how it all worked out. They located a piper club, a
piper cub, I guess you'd say, and he said, if somebody hadn't
have found that piper cub, we'd have never made it. And they
said, tell me, how in the world are you going to tell us that
you flew 25 Texans to Chicago in a Piper Cub, as big as Texans
are?" He said, that's right. He said, I don't see how you
ever figured out the logistics of all that. And he said, it's
very easy when you let the air out of them. I've had a few people trying
to deflate me, so Dr. White, all that pumping you did
a while ago is not going to do any good. You're still going
to have to pay for that plating. It's good to be here tonight. I want to give you a text tonight
from the book of Psalms, the 68th chapter. and the 11th verse,
or should I say the 68th Psalm and the 11th verse. I'm afraid that I'm not going
to get around to my outline too well tonight, so I may have to
give it to you at the beginning so you'll be sure and get the
outline in case I don't get through it. Psalm 68, verse 11. The Lord gave the Word, great
was the company of those that published it." May we look to
the Lord in prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank Thee
for the privilege of being here with these brethren that love
Thy Word, that are willing to stand for the faith once delivered
to the saints, willing to defend Thy precious and holy Word. from
the host of attacks that are being made upon him. Pray that
thou would bless this church and its pastor for being so kind
as to invite us here for this meeting. Bless this service tonight.
Get honor and glory to thy name. May everything that's done and
said here tonight be for thy honor and thy glory. And we'll
praise thee for all the results for every life that's changed
for every Christian that's encouraged and edified and energized, Lord,
to do thy work in a greater way. And if there be one here tonight
that does not know Christ as Lord and Savior, may this be
tonight, that they shall know Him, whom to know is life eternal. We pray in Christ's name. Amen. I'm a Baptist, and I'm not ashamed
of it. And I'm saved, and I'm a Baptist,
and I'd like to see everybody saved, and I'd like to see everybody
become a Baptist, as far as that's concerned. We probably won't succeed on
the first or the second, I'm sure, but tonight I'm not going
to speak to you so much from the perspective that I might,
under different circumstances, not that the circumstances here
tonight would be adverse to this, but I believe that tonight this
passage of Scripture is a passage of Scripture that can bless our
hearts. The Lord gave the Word. We believe that tonight. This
Bible is God's infallible, inerrant Word. And tonight, we do not
make any apology whatsoever for believing that God has not only
given His Word, but that He has preserved His Word. And tonight
we make no apology in saying that we believe that it is the
business of God's people and particularly the Lord's churches
to publish this word so that all the world may know the truth
of God's word. Now tonight I'm not going to
try to give a long dissertation on the inspiration of the scriptures. I really doubt very seriously
if there's anyone here tonight that has the slightest doubt,
but what God gave the Word, verbally inspired, not thought inspiration,
not dynamic inspiration, whatever that is, and I've heard several
descriptions of it. But that he gave his word by
a supernatural means that we do not always necessarily understand,
but we believe it because the Word of God declares it. All Scripture is given by inspiration
of God. Not part of it, but all Scripture
is given by inspiration of God. We have seen in our generation
and time one of the greatest attacks in the history of Christianity
against the Word of God. We face problems and we face
opposition to an extent that thirty years ago we did not have
to face. We did not have all of this multiplicity
of perversions. I know there were a number of
different versions, but nobody very much, at least, really took
the revised version of 1885 too seriously. It didn't sell. And
the one of 1901, they couldn't sell it either. That was before
they thought of giving them away like good news for modern man. And of course, Moffat and some
of the rest, and Goodspeed, we all heard about them. But who
bought them? Who was interested in them? We
knew what they were. They were the attempts of modernists
and liberals to water down, to pervert, and to change the Word
of God. But since 1952, with the Revised
Standard Version put out by the National Council of Churches,
We have seen a steadily mounting attack against the Word of God,
and so many seeds of doubt have been sown in the minds of people
by the news media, by the bookstores and publishers and advertisements,
that it is no wonder that there are multitudes today who are
confused about as to what the Word of God really is. As long as we only had to battle
the modernists on this issue, it was pretty easy. We didn't
have much trouble convincing people in fundamental Bible-believing
churches that the Revised Standard Version was a Bible that was
produced by modernists for modernists and to help the modernists cause
and not to publish the Word of God. People really could understand
that. But we have seen in the last
two decades the sixties and the seventies, the other versions
that have come on the scene. And these, in many instances,
have been endorsed by evangelicals, by fundamentalists, at least
they say they're fundamentalists. And here is an area where that
we must stand Not that God is unable to preserve His Word without
me. God would preserve His Word if
every one of us here tonight dropped dead. It is not the business of E. L. Bynum or D. A. Waite or Dr. Fuller or the Dean-Burgon Society
to preserve the Word of God, God has promised to do that Himself. It is our purpose to set the
record straight as to where the Word of God can be found, and
to meet the issues of the day which are coming from the, I
hate to say it, but from those who should be on our side. It breaks my heart to know that
there are people who are saved, who believe the Bible, at least
to a large extent and would agree with us, but who have been swept
away by the theories of Westcott and Hort, and have been swept
away by the new American Standard Version, and the new International
Version, and perhaps others. That's sad. I believe that God
expects you, He expects me to stand for the Word of God, so
that people may know the truth. We have nothing to fear by the
truth being made known. Though the other side may have
many great scholars, so-called, we do not have to measure the
brains of men, nor the scholarship of men, We only have to stand
upon the Word of God. The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth, but the Word of our God shall stand forever. That is
as true tonight as it was those many hundreds and hundreds of
years ago when it was written by Isaiah the prophet in the
40th chapter and the 8th verse. Now I know that if we stand on
this issue, that we'll be called fanatics. That's already happened
to some. I've never considered myself
to be a fanatic about anything, but if I was going to be a fanatic
about something, I can't think of a better thing to be a fanatic
on than to stand on the Word of God. It's been said that we're not
taking the position that was taken. by the fundamentalists
and the Bible believers of the past. My friend, the fundamentalists
and the Bible believers of the past, in many instances, never
faced the issues that we are facing today. They didn't have
people streaming into their church carrying this version and that
version and some other version that disagree one with another. tell me that people can sit in
a Sunday school class with one carrying good news for modern
man, the other the Living Bible, another one the New International
Version, another the New American Standard Version, and as they
do in some Sunday school classes that I have, have witnesses to
the fact that it is done, they call upon each one to read the
differences before the class. Now listen, they didn't have
to face that 50 years ago. That wasn't around 40 years ago. It really wasn't an issue 30
years ago, but it is an issue tonight. I believe that in our confessions of faith,
And some of you may have read, I'm sure some of you have at
least, some of the things that we have published concerning
the confessions of faith. And tonight, I want to read just
a little bit of this to you. We're not taking a new position
when we say that we believe that God has preserved His Word. That's what our confessions of
faith have said. Time after time after time, going
all the way back to the 1600s. I'm not saying that everyone
that wrote these confessions of faith were sound in every
doctrine. I'm not saying that we would
agree with every word in all of these confessions of faith.
But I am saying tonight, that these people believed that God
had given His word, and they believed that God had preserved
His word according to His promise. The scripture cannot be broken. The words of the Lord are pure. And there are, of course, many
other scriptures along that line. I'm quoting tonight or reading
tonight from the Westminster Confession of 1646, and of course
that wasn't a Baptist confession, but it has had great influence
in the Christian world, and no one could say that it was an
insignificant confession of faith. And it says, quote, the Old Testament
in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek being immediately inspired
by God and by His singular care and providence, kept pure in
all ages, are therefore authentical. So as in all controversies of
religion, the Church is finally to appeal unto them. Now they said, And I quote it
again, inspired by God and by His singular care and providence
kept pure in all ages. We have those who say that you
can find the Word of God in all the manuscripts and in all the
versions. Well, if you're going to say
that, I guess you could say you can find it in Strong's or Young's
concordance, for they have all the words too. All you've got
to do is just figure out how to arrange them and you have
it. Or you could say that it's all in the letters of the alphabet. All you've got to do is arrange
them right and you have it. If you want the original, take
the Hebrew alphabet and the Greek alphabet. A good friend of mine, or has
been a good friend of mine, he wrote not long ago an article
trying to refute the position taken by the Dean Burgon Society,
and those of us who believe in the inspired Word of God. And
he's a Bible believer, saved man, and he quoted from a book. And I'm just going to read a
little bit from this book that he quoted from, and I was very
interested. I think part of it has been reprinted,
but it's been out of print for some time, the whole book. But
it was very interesting to me that he quit at a very significant
place in his quotation. I wish he'd have gone on and
quoted the rest of it. And of course, he's not here
tonight, but I'm going to quote it for him. I'm going to help
him out a little bit. And I'm going to send him a copy
of this so he can say that he's been helped out. I think I have that quotation
marked here, if you'll bear with me just a moment. I didn't have
a copy of this to bring along with me. They arrived, I guess,
today through the mail. But the question is, have historic
Christian leaders of the past believed in the preservation
of the Scripture. And this good man quoted from George Sayles
Bishop, who was a contemporary of West Compton Hort, and who
wrote a book that I believe is published by Baker Book House. But this dear brother, he just
emphasized that that George Sales Bishop mentioned that the original
manuscripts were inspired. And of course, the implication
was that he didn't believe that God had preserved His Word, or
that seemed to be the implication to me. But I quote word for word
from George Sales Bishop, On the original parchment, men may
destroy the parchment, time may destroy it. To say that the membranes
have suffered in the hands of man is but to say that everything
divine must suffer as the patterned tabernacle suffered when committed
to our hands. To say, however, that the writing
has suffered, the words and letters, it is to say that Jehovah has
failed. The writings remain like that
of a polyp set, and that's not a word in my vocabulary, but
I looked it up. It will survive and reappear
no matter what circumstances, what changes come in to scatter,
obscure, disfigure, or blot it away, not even one lonely theos. written large by the Spirit of
God on the great Uniso sea, as with mine own eyes I have seen
it plain, vivid, glittering, outstarting from behind the pale
and overlying ink of Ephraim the Syrian, Assyrian can be buried
like Banquo's ghost. It will rise and God Himself
replace it and with a hammer stroke beat down deleting hands. The parchments, the membranes
decay, the writings, the words are eternal as God. Strip off
the plaster from Belshazzar's palace, yet many, many tickle
you for sin. Remain, they remain." Now, that lonely theos, he's
talking about God manifest in the flesh. There is not one of
the modern versions, with the possible exception of the new
King James, that leaves it like that. The NASV, doesn't it? The ASV, the NIV. He who was
manifest in the flesh. Have you ever noticed how much
the modern versions detract from the glory of God, from the names
of Jesus Christ, and how much they try, at least in my opinion,
to leave out as much scripture as they can that declare that
Jesus Christ is God. I will never accept a version,
I don't care where it comes from, that changes that passage of
Scripture. And if I'm a nut, I'll just stand as a nut on that.
He is, he was, and he shall ever be God. The brethren of the past, 1646,
West Cotton Hort weren't around then. Their text wasn't around then. It wasn't. And if Westcott and
Horton are right, and the brethren who are pushing these new versions
are right, these brethren here who wrote the Westminster Confession,
and who wrote many of these other confessions that I'm going to
quote from a few tonight. These brothers were all wrong. They didn't have the Word of
God. They didn't have B. They didn't
have the Vatican manuscript in their possession, and whatever
they knew about it, their silence concerning it. We know which
Bible they were using in 1646. The Baptists. Since I'm a Baptist,
that's the territory I like to talk about. Those of you who
may not be Baptists, we'll forgive you anyhow. The Midland Confession of 1655
was adopted unanimously by the messengers of the churches meeting
at Warwick, England. That was in 1655. And what did
they say? We profess and believe the Holy
Scriptures, the Old and New Testament, to be the word and revealed mind
of God, which are able to make men wise unto salvation through
faith and love which is in Christ Jesus, and that they are given
by inspiration of God, serving to furnish the men of God for
every good work, and by them we are in the strength of Christ
to try all things whatsoever are brought to us under the pretense
of truth, 2 Timothy 3, 15-17, and Isaiah 8 and verse 20." Now
we have those who say, now, the word of The Lord is forever settled in
heaven. Now, I didn't quote that right,
but it was quoted here tonight from this pulpit correctly earlier.
Forever, O Lord, thy Word is settled in heaven. And they indicate
that that's the only place where God's Word is settled. As far
as God's concerned, it's settled down here too, brother. He hasn't
changed, and He's not going to change His Word. And I can't,
these brethren couldn't appeal to the Word of God in heaven,
because none of them's been there and come back to tell us about
it. If anybody's been there and come back to tell about it, don't
tell me, because I know you're a hair-tick in the first place.
These brethren in 1655 says, quote, Try all things whatsoever
are brought to us under the pretense of truth, unquote. I'm going
to pass over some of these confessions, but I want to quote tonight from
one that's not generally known, and all might not agree with
this, but nevertheless, I'm going to quote from it to show you
that there were Baptists back in those days, back in 1678. Now, we're talking about the
Orthodox Creed published by the General Baptist of England in
1678. And I quote from it, and by the Holy Scriptures we understand
the canonical books of the Old and New Testament as they are
now translated into our English mother tongue, of which there
have never been any doubt of their verity and authority in
the Protestant churches of Christ to this day, unquote. And then
these Baptists of 1678 list all of the books of the Old and New
Testament and then say, after they've listed them, just as
we have them in our Bible today, all, and quote, all which are
given by the inspiration of God to be the rule of faith and life,
unquote. Now, that is not one of the better
known confessions of faith. But the Second London Confession
of Faith of 1677 was patterned to some extent in some areas
on the Westminster Confession, and particularly on the Scriptures. And they said the Baptist of
1677—by the way, this same confession is republished in Spurgeon's
day, and he wrote the foreword for it and endorse the confession,
whether that's good or bad as far as you're concerned, it's
the truth anyway. Quote, The Holy Scripture is
the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving
knowledge, faith, and obedience. Now, I'm not quoting the whole
statement, but I'm not leaving out anything that's relevant.
Unquote. Then the Second London Confession says, quote, The Old
Testament in Hebrew, which was the native language of the people
of old, and the New Testament in Greek, which at the time of
the writing of it was most generally known to the nations, being immediately
inspired by God, and by his singular care and providence, kept pure
in all ages. are therefore authentical, so
as in all controversies of religion, the church is finally to appeal
unto them." Now my point is, and I quote, my point is that
these brethren, if the theories of Westcott and Hort, and of
that school, and those who have modified Westcott and Hort, if
their theories are correct, these brethren didn't really have what
they needed to appeal to to settle all these questions. Because
they only had the received text and maybe some manuscripts that
might not have agreed with the received text. But what I'm saying
tonight is that these people believed that questions could
be settled by the Word of God that had been preserved by Almighty
God. Now, the Baptists of 16 and 77,
they weren't using the NASV, the ASV, the RSV, Good News for
Modern Man, or any of the rest. And they were not using the West
Cotton Horde text. It hadn't even been fabricated
then. It was fabricated in secret, and was kept secret from the
general public until the revised version of 1881 and then of the
total Bible 1885 was published. I believe I'm correct on that.
And they didn't even let, if I understand correctly, and some
of the brethren here could correct me on this, but if I understand
it, the brethren who did the translation and did the approval
did not have the total text as they worked on each part. If
I understand it, they handed it out bit by bit. If they'd
had the whole thing at one time and had time to study it, there
might have been some of them that would have resigned. I don't
know, I'm just speculating. The Philadelphia Confession of
1742 is almost identical with the Second London Confession,
and these were the Baptists who met in Philadelphia in 1742.
Something happened there in Philadelphia in 1978, too. But anyway, it
reads the same. And then they go ahead and they list the books of the Bible as they
are found in our English Bible. Now, I don't know why that they
would have done that if they were talking about something that doesn't have them
listed that way. Maybe you can straighten me out
on that. But they said, that the Hebrew
Old Testament and the Greek New Testament were, quote, inspired
by God and by His singular care and providence kept pure in all
ages, are therefore authentic, so as in all controversies of
religion, the Church is finally to appeal unto them, unquote. They didn't say we can appeal
to it when we get to heaven. Or we can appeal to it if we
ever have the true text, and they didn't have it in 1742.
They were still over a hundred years away from getting it, according
to the hundred-year theory that we're feeling the brunt of the
West Coast, and the English revised version. is the fact that though
they never were able to convince the people, the Christians of
England or the Christians of America to accept these two versions,
they were able to get the Westcott-Hort text in the theological schools
of our theological world. And that is why we are facing
what we are tonight. They did not succeed in the Revised
Version of 1885 or the American Standard Version of 1901. They
did not succeed in getting the people on the pews or the pastors
in the pulpits of the churches of America and England to accept
it. It never was accepted by a large
percentage of the people, but they were able. to put it into
the colleges and the universities and particularly the seminaries
of England and America. And now, after all of these years,
we are reaping the fruit of that awful tragedy. Beloved, unless
we stand on this, unless we come back to the point where we can
preach the Word of God with confidence, where we can stand on the Word
of God and declare God's Word rather than criticize the Word
of God, rather than to stand and talk about errors in the
Word of God, unless we get to the point where we can preach
it and say, thus saith the Lord, we are shook. I'll tell you why. We're catching
the flack now from several different sources on the matter of the preservation of God's
Word over the Greek received text and the King James Version. That's because of the mass of
material that's been going out for the last few years. I'm talking
about these books edited by Dr. Fuller, these books written by
Dr. Waite, and other materials that
others have been publishing, not because some large publishing
company necessarily wanted to publish it, but because somebody
believed the truth enough to sacrifice, to write, to edit,
to print, and to get it out. And because people are beginning
to listen. Ten years ago, I could not name
you, now I'm not saying that because I couldn't name it, it
didn't exist, but I personally could not name one Bible institute,
Bible college, or seminary that was using the Textus Receptus
in a department. Ten years ago, I couldn't name
one. Now, if there were four of them, and I'm not saying that
I know for certain that is, I think I could not have named one. But
tonight, there are several growing, vigorous, and standing, and are using the
received text in their classrooms. Beloved, this is stirring up
opposition. I believe what I believe, and
I'm not mad about it. I'm rejoicing in the fact that
by the grace and providence of God and by His marvelous mercy,
I was not led astray. Maybe I wasn't smart enough to
be led astray. If that be the case, praise the Lord for ignorance. Listen to me tonight. The devil's
mad about this. And we must be determined by
the grace of God that this Word that was given by the Lord, this
Word that has been preserved by the Lord, we must be faithful
to declare it, to defend it, and if necessary, give our lives. God's magnified His Word above
His name. What do I know about Christ?
What I know about salvation, what I know about the church,
what I know about baptism, what I know about any of the doctrines,
I have to get it from the Word of God. And I'll tell you this,
some of you may not realize it, but there's an awful lot of people
across this country, just Christians on the pews, that have had their
faith shaken by what's been going on. They go to a bookstore to
buy a Bible, And in many instances, in some of the major bookstores,
the last version they will show them, and only if they ask for
it, is the King James Version. They'll push anything. Now, if
there are bookstores, and there are some that don't. But I want
to tell you, if pastors and Christians don't stand on this thing and
say, why be divisive? Why not let's just love one another? Let me tell you something. I
believe in love. I really do. You might not believe it by reading
some things I've written, but I do. But many times love is used to
cover compromise. And if we're using God's love,
the L-O-V-E of the Bible, to cover compromise, we are perverting
the Word of God. If we love God, if we love His
truth, we'll not compromise just to get along with people. And
tonight, I'm not wanting to make enemies, and I don't believe
any of us here tonight do. I don't believe that we want
to turn people against the Word of God, but we must speak up
if we're going to convince people of the truth of what we're standing
for. What has been stated here tonight
by Dr. Waite, and what I'm sure will
be stated over and over again in this meeting, there has to
be some people who will stick their neck out, even if somebody
tries to put a noose around it, and say, we are not going to
be silent. The Lord has given His word. Now then, here's the outline. If you can call it that. And
it's time to go home. Publishing the Word. I'm not
going to say tonight that the Lord had here in the Hebrew that
he's talking about Goss P50 Press or something like that. But publishing
the Word of God, back in those days, didn't mean a printing
press. It meant The copying of it, it meant those who were going
forth to tell it from mouth to mouth. From mouth to ear, I should
say. And tonight, we have greater
opportunities to publish and spread the Word of God through
printing presses than ever before. I wish I had time to go into
it tonight, but I believe with all of my heart that the greatest
invention of the last 500 years, I'm saying the greatest mechanical
invention, as far as the cause of Christ is concerned, is a
printing press. Let me tell you something. Whoever
said that the pen is mightier than the sword was certainly
right. But you know, when we're declaring God's Word and publishing
God's Word, we've got both the pen and the sword. For the Word
of God is the sword of the Spirit. Tonight, the Bible says, great
was the company of those that published it. I believe the greatest
work in the world is publishing God's Word. I'm not talking about
necessarily printing it. I'm just saying that's a part
of it. But I'm talking about the publishing of the Word of
God. Anything that comes within the meaning of this text of Scripture,
the greatest thing in the world, And if that's what God's called
you for, you would step down if you took the presidency of
the United States. And by the way, we need one,
don't we? It's a great work. Let me tell
you tonight, I wish I knew how to get people challenged to the
idea That truth can be spread not only by word of mouth, not
only from the pulpit, but truth spread from the printed page. I'll tell you, the cults know
the value of the printed page. Gutenberg, or Gooseflesh I believe,
was his true name, the father of modern printing, said over
500 years ago, and this I copied and I believe it to be authentic,
this is what he said. God suffers. Now this is Gutenberg,
the man who invented the modern printing press or who ushered
in that era. God suffers because of the great
multitudes whom his sacred word cannot reach. Religious truth
is captive in a small number of manuscripts, books which guard
the treasures, lest Let us break the seal which holds the holy
things, give wings to the truth that by a means no longer written
by the hand that wearies itself, but multiplied by an unwearied
machine, it may fly to every soul born into the world." I believe we need to take what
he said Truthfully, John Armand, whom we might and surely wouldn't
agree with on some things, said that the alphabet was the most
powerful invention that God ever committed to man. But the Communists,
the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Seventh-day Adventists, and the
cults are using the printing press and printing material to
spread their cult They're diabolical doctrines, and I don't hesitate
to call them that, to the ends of the earth. Why, the seventh
day Adventists in one year spent 21 million dollars, it's my understanding,
in 218 languages, just publishing their materials. 21 million dollars. Suppose we can get that much
this year, Dr. Waite? Tonight, we've got a job to do. It's the greatest work in the
world. Great was the company. They've got a great work. Great
was the company in number. Let's pray for laborers in the
harvest field, not only to preach, not only for missionaries. Let's
pray that those who know the truth and those who love the
truth will pray and keep on praying that God will raise up people
who will publish, who will print books and print material to spread
the truth that we know to be truth in this generation. Most of the large publishers
are not going to touch it. Unless they can figure out some
way to make a million on it, they are not going to do it.
But beloved, we don't have to wait for them. We can go on by
God's grace. Not just one or two, but those
who have the burden, those who have the challenge, those who
have the desire, those who have the calling, those who have the
backbone, those who are not too lazy to get up and do something,
we can do something in these last days to spread the truth
concerning the Word of God. Let's pray that God will make
a great number, and then there's great results from it. When we publish the Word of God,
whether by mouth, whether from the pulpit, whether on the printed
page, beloved, this glorifies God. It glorifies Him. He has magnified His Word above
His name. It glorifies God. Furthermore,
it will resolve in souls saved. It will result in God's work
going forward. And I'll tell you this, there's
a reward coming. Grave will be the reward of this
company. We're going to stand before the
judgment seat of Christ. We're going to give an account of the
deeds done in the body, whether they be good or bad. And we better
think about that tonight and every day of our lives. I close
with this poem. If we can call it that. I'm sorry
I don't have the name of the writer. Higher ground of scripture,
no shaky platform this. No weak supports, no creaky steps. It stands the greatest stress.
Higher ground of scripture, ground solid, rock-like firm. Wind cannot
erode or storms corrode, neither fire burn. Higher ground, O plummets
depths, On it our confidence can rest, With it our conscience
stands the test, In it our spirit truly blessed, Our consecration
it demands, For then our course is as God plans, Our souls are
blessed, our hearts are stirred, As we stand firmly on His Word.
The Lord Gave the Word
Series Traditional Bible Texts
God has not only given us His Word but He as preserved it. It is the responsibility of God's people to publish His Word.
| Sermon ID | 42081711118 |
| Duration | 49:43 |
| Date | |
| Category | Special Meeting |
| Bible Text | 2 Timothy 3:16; Isaiah 40:8; Psalm 68:11 |
| Language | English |
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