Alright, I'm going to talk to you tonight about the King James Bible and several other versions, but predominantly we will be looking at the New International Version. That's this one right here. And so, what we're going to do is we're going to compare the NIV in a couple of places to the Word of God, and then we're going to compare some of these other versions, and we'll just whisk them all in the ring and see which one is standing when it's all over. And so, the first thing we're going to do, I'm going to ask your pastor to come up and bring your Bible so we can read that. I know he won't. I know he won't. I don't need your Bible, but we'll read this one. And the first thing we're going to do is we're just going to look at some places where the King James Bible says some things. I'm going to get my notes first. Where the King James Bible says some things and just some regular, everyday clichés that are found in the King James Bible, and we're going to look at the NIV and see if it is really more modern. The first thing we're going to ask you to do is look at Genesis chapter 30. Genesis chapter 30. Alright, here's what's happened. Nathan has been chasing the Son of Man. Jacob finally catches up with him. And he says this in verse 27, "'Believer,' he said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry, for I have learned my experience, that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.'" All right, and that's the term we all use, right? Well, you learn by experience. How many of you have ever heard anybody say, well, you learn by spirit from a certain age? Well, wait a second, you don't look for her here, though. This here's a Bible that is almost 400 years old. This is a Bible that they told you was not a modern Bible. You're just about every hand in this place went up and has heard that quoted. I don't mean that you heard somebody preaching on that verse. You've heard that phrase used throughout your life, have you not? What you're going to find out is that people talk like a King James Bible. Pastor, would you read Genesis 30, 27 from the NIV? If I have found favor in your eyes, please say, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you." Now, that's an old phrase we all use, well, you learn by divination. Have you ever heard anybody talk that way? What I'm telling you is, people talk like a 400-year-old Bible, not like a Bible that's just barely 25 years old. This guy's been 25 years old, and yet nobody talks like that. Nobody says, well, you learn by divination. Look over Genesis chapter 31. Genesis chapter 31. Now, I have a little sister that is 6 years older than I am, and I have a daughter 2 years older. You know, my sister had a room, and my brother and I shared a room. We had two twin beds. And then my sister got married, my brother took her room, and I inherited a bedroom with two twin beds. Now, you can't sleep in two beds at one time, but that is no problem for a teenage kid, for a boy, because what happens is one of those beds becomes a horizontal closet. And you're just carrying it to your pockets. It all goes on there, you know. It kind of stacks up. And that's a tale of some others. It's a great thing for a guy. And she thought that, you know, it needed to be straightened up. And I said, no, no, I know where it is. You know, it's pulled horrible down, back on the spider's den. I knew where everything was. And then, some days, I would be gone, and I would come home and find that my mother had done that horrible thing, very akin to the attack on Hiroshima. She cleaned my room. And I would usually respond to her something like Jacob did to Laban, and here in Genesis chapter 31, verse 37, where he said, "...whereas I have searched all my stuff." And you know what we say? We say, stuff. All the things you have, you know what you call them? You call them stuff. So, if you're going to go to camp, you say, well, let's get our stuff and put it on the bus. When you get there, you say, okay, take your stuff off the bus and put your stuff in the cabin. Stuff is a 400-year-old word. And, by the way, the word stuff does not even appear in the NIV. Why not? You use it, don't you? You have to say stuff the whole time. Well, you've got it from the King James Bible. You shouldn't get it from the NIV. And so, now we're going to hear something more modern, patchy. Well, put your goods on the bus. Y'all take your goods off the bus. We're at the compound. Nobody says, goods. Nobody says, well, there's your goods over there. You say, is that your stuff? Isn't that right? You say, oh, man, I don't believe any of that stuff. Thank you. Thank you. Look at 2 Chronicles, Chapter 36. I taught at a Bible college in Ohio. Here's what you did at a Bible college. In Bible colleges, all Bible colleges, there's a lot of books. He had three girls and dumb guys. That's what you get. And, inevitably, this happens in Bible colleges. It happened in ours. This dumb guy saw this three-girl walking down the hall of the college one day and stepped in front of her and said, I just want to let you know that God told me last night that it was His divine will that you marry me. Now, she was serious. She said, what did she do? is what the king of Egypt did to the king of Jerusalem, the king of Judah, in 2 Chronicles, chapter 36, verse 3, where it says, "...and the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem." Oh, man, did she put him down! Now, have you ever heard anybody say that? What a put-down! Have you ever heard anybody say that? Hey, who put them down? That is a King James phrase! That is what, that's how we talk. And so we say, oh man, you should have been their boyfriend when she put him down. That is a King James play that's out of a 400-year-old Bible. Let's hear something more modern. Action. The King of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem. There you go. Man, what a dethrone! Yeah. We'll talk that way. Nobody talks like an NIV, you talk like a King James Bible. Now, if you go into a Bible bookstore and they tell you the NIV is more modern, it is not more modern. Modern English follows the King James Bible, modern English does not follow the NIV. In Nehemiah chapter 13, Nehemiah is somewhat upset. Alright, he's upset with the rulers of his day, and in Nehemiah chapter 13, verse 11, it says this, "...then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place." And so, from that date of this, we say, he put them in their place. How many of you have ever heard anybody say, Boy, he got put in his place. Have you ever heard anybody say that? Now, let me ask you something. When somebody said that, did they say, well, if you put them in his place, Nehemiah 13, 11, they'll never quote the King James Bible. You will quote it the rest of the days of your life. You know what the funniest thing is? It's got to be funny to God that these Bible translators, they don't want to use the King James Bible, and they all quote it. They would all say, boy, we'd like to put them King James Bible believers down, so thank you, thank you, but if that's for us. Boy, you don't think they just need to be put in their place, that's right. Now, let's see what the NIV says. "'Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.'" That's what you said, that, haven't you? Well, they just need to be stationed in their posts. You don't say that. You say, I put him in his place, just like the King James Bible, as you say. You know why we quote the King James Bible? It's not just because it's ingrained into our language, but, you see, the God that made you made this book. And, I've just always felt he's just kind of left a couple parts interchangeable so that you cannot escape quoting the King James Bible all the days of your life. Look at Proverbs chapter 4. The cover of chapter 4, about twenty-five, thirty years ago, the hippies decided that they needed a little bit of authority, so they went to the Bible. Anytime somebody wants authority, they go to the Bible, including non-Bible believers. Bible rejecters go to the Bible every time they want authority. You go to the United Nations building and open the front door, and they will beat their swords into plowshares. Why did they do that? Because they needed some authority, and they knew where to go. Our illustrious president got up there. He wanted to get a bunch of guys to talk to him. One time, he said, Come, let us reason together. He said, The Bible says, Come, let us reason together. The rest of that verse scared him, but when he needed authority, he went to the Bible, all right? And so, the hippies, about 45 years ago, said, you know, we need some authority. We're not taking this seriously, we need some authority. I know what we'll do, we'll go to the Bible. And so, they went to the Bible, and here's what they came up with. Proverbs, chapter 4, verse 25. You see, you can't help. And so, the hippies, man, some of you guys used to say it right off, and you know you're quoting the King James Bible. Some of you used to quote the King James Bible when you were a lost hippie. Now, I'm going to ask your pastor to read the whole verse, because he kind of twisted this around. Go ahead. Well, your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. I've always liked that, fix your gaze, you know. But that's something we all say, you know. And here, I tell people, I say, that kind of shows that the King James Bible I mean, there they were, long hair, tie-dyed t-shirts, a Volkswagen power van going, fraud on, fraud on. That was a very sane guy. Twenty-five years later, he's in a three-piece suit. He pulls up in a red BMW and says, "'Picture good.'" He's got him a new Bible. He's a yuppie now. He's not a hippie. People, we talk like a King James Bible. We don't talk like an NIV. Look at Isaiah, chapter 65. Here's the one you quoted. Isaiah, chapter 65. Isaiah, chapter 65, verse 5, says this, which says, "...stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am holier than thou." You've heard that, haven't you? Oh, it's got holier than thou. Oh, yeah, you've got to go to the Bible practice. Oh, it's holier than thou, because they've got a King James Bible. Well, if you have a King James Bible, then why do you quote it? And so, you know what you say? You say, holier than thou. You've heard that, you've heard it all your life. I bet you didn't know anything about the Bible. Maybe somewhere down the road you found out, but the first time you heard it, probably the fiftieth time you heard it, you didn't know it came from the King James Bible. People, you are going to quote a King James Bible all the days of your life. Preacher, could you get a sermon out of the, uh... Just say, keep away, don't come near me, for I am too sacred for you. There you go. I said, I'm too sacred for you, crowd. Now, do you ever hear anybody say that? I've got news for you. Not only have you not heard anybody say that, you will not hear anybody say that, because the NIV will not frame our language, alright? The NIV, if you try to read the NIV... You, you don't hear anybody say, oh, the KJ 5 was difficult to read. You found it difficult to read, so you tried to read the NIV. I'm serious. And I'm not talking about when I was your teacher, I mean, look, nobody talks like an NIV. There are things in there, the way they're framed, the way they're worded, the descriptive nouns, adjectives, things like that. Nobody talks that way. It is just a hard-course work, a literary work, that nobody wants. All right? Nobody wants it. You say, why'd they buy it? Well, they buy it because they've been told they need it. It's not they want it. In fact, you would get an argument? Normally, if you've got a Bible bookstore, just go there and tell them to buy the Bible. Now, they would argue to say, I want a new King James. They would argue to say, I want a new American Standard, or an R.I.V., or something else. You say you want a King James Bible. See if you'll get a plus. Look at Acts, Chapter 20. In Acts, Chapter 20, Paul is on his way to Jerusalem, and a more than ordinary...he's tried to stop him a couple of times. And so, here's what Paul says, talking about the Holy Spirit trying to stop him, in Romans, verse 23, he says that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city, saying that God's afflictions abide him. So, he knows the Holy Spirit does not want him to go to Jerusalem, but here's what he says. It's kind of like you. You know what God wants, verse 24, but none of these things move me. And so, from that day to this, we say, look, that was very moving, wasn't it? I mean, I was moved by their words. I was moved by what happened. We say that was a very moving situation. Well, Paul says, none of these things moved me. Now, I'm going to ask your pastor to read the whole verse. You've got it in the Bible. He's going to have to read the whole verse because, to be very honest with you, I have no idea what happens to this. Read it. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me. the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace." Yeah, Paul, here we go. You know what's wrong with that? It just doesn't move me. Now, I told you that they will quote the King James Bible, whether they like it or not. This is the contemporary English version, and it says this. Now, this is typical advertising, all right? It's not the greatest story ever told if nobody understands the words. Now, you see what that is? That's like, well, see, they can't understand it from the King James Bible. Well, how did they get saved? How have we had people get saved for over 400 years, almost 400 years, from a Bible that nobody could understand the words? So, you say, well, here's what you do. It says you read the book. Well, yeah, that's right. They can't understand a word. Well, they've been doing pretty good so far. All right, here's what it says. Today, the words of Jesus are as relevant as they were in his day, but the language used in many Bibles has become archaic, and is often difficult to grasp. Is this correct in the King James Bible? I wonder, did he say many Bibles? He gives you an example. You know, he compares the contemporary English version to the King James Bible. Where's the many? Where's the many Bibles he talked about? So, here's what's a real kick. This is what you'll describe, the Contemporary English Version. This moving translation of the Bible is available to retract your sign. Uh-huh. Where do you reckon you got that term, moving, from? It didn't get from there, I think. I wouldn't doubt it's not really Contemporary English. Look, to sell a new Bible, they had to go to a 1611 Bible and quote it. Isn't that funny? They just told you that the words were hard to understand, and they're so easy to understand that they used the King's English to sell, to keep you from buying it. Why don't you use the Bible they use? King James Bible. Go to Romans, chapter 13. Now, I'm going to tell you why they do this. I'll just tell you right apart. Yeah, but you know what? They think you're stupid, okay? Now, I don't think you're stupid. I really don't, but they think you're stupid. The guys who translate that NIV, they think you're stupid. Now, what I do, whatever I teach on this subject, is I have what I call a stupid test, okay? And then you pass, and then, you know, you don't have to feel stupid anymore. So, just, we'll get this in a while, but for the stupid test, what comes after 20? Well, I was hoping you would do good on this. Let me see this again. Now, let's try this again. What comes after 10? You know, I'm kind of worried about this test. You guys are not... I mean, look, I don't think you're stupid, but you're not patching the test. Let me try this one again. What comes after 43? But, really, folks, we'll have to get back to this later, because you're really not looking good. Maybe you all went to public school, I don't know. But, anyway, we'll get back to this. One of the complaints about the King James Bible is that it has italicized words. Now, here is something no one, anybody that ever complains about the italics in the King James Bible, here's something I never tell you. All Bibles have italics. Let me say this, all Bibles have words added by the translators. The King James translators, when they added a word... You know, you guys, you've got a lot of Spanish-speaking folks, you know what you know? You cannot translate word for word from English into Spanish or Spanish into English without adding or subtracting some words. Is that not true? Well, you can't do that with Greek, either. I mean, man, if you would literally translate some stuff from Greek, it would be, And so, when the King James translators added a word, they put it in italics. And so, everybody goes ballistic, and I'm going to tell you why they go ballistic. They go ballistic because they can't explain the word unknown in 1 Corinthians 14, haven't got the guts to tell you they don't know the Bible enough to explain it, so they just say, we need to get rid of the italicized words. They all got words added by the translators. They all did. Now, who killed Goliath? Oh, you should train these folks better. They think David killed Goliath. Go to 2 Samuel, chapter 21. 2 Samuel, chapter 21. Now, notice, the brother of is in italics, right? That's because the brother of was not in the original Hebrews. And so, the King James translators knew that David had killed Goliath and knew that this guy had killed his brother, so they put the brother of in italics. That's nasty to have that, so what do you get? Now, Pastor, could you read it for me, and I'll read it? Now, you know what you got? You got a Bible and a contradiction. I was a lost Roman Catholic. I was sitting at a table in Old Timers Bar in Nashville, Ohio, and I got the best news of my life. You know what it was? I don't even know who said it. They said the Bible has contradictions in it. When I heard that, that was the best thing I heard. You know why? I said, if it's got contradictions in it, then it can't be perfect. If it's not perfect, I will never have to worry about being judged by an imperfect book. What I didn't know was, there's talk about the NIV, okay? And so, what you've got is, you've got a contradiction, because in 1 Samuel, chapter 17, the NIV says David killed Goliath. In 2 Samuel, chapter 21, it says Elhaman killed Goliath. Now, you say, well, maybe it's another Goliath. Well, no less hard to see another night about parallel passages. Well, there's a parallel to this. Go to 1 Chronicles chapter 20. 1 Chronicles chapter 20, we have the parallel to 2 Samuel 21, and what does it say? And there was war again with the Philistines. Now, him and the son of Jer, Shulami, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam. Pastor, could you read it for the NIV? So, you've still got a contradiction in that book. In one place it says, well, he hadn't killed mommy, Goliath's brother, and in the other place it says he killed Goliath, and the other place it says David killed Goliath. And NIV is a mess, alright? It is an absolute mess, and you can't use it to do anything for God's sake, alright? And I'll give you more on that tomorrow night. Now, here's what they like to say. Well, when you take your talis out, it doesn't make any big difference. You know, it doesn't change anything in a major way. I don't know, let's try this one. Go to Deuteronomy, chapter 33. Deuteronomy, chapter 33, watch for the italicized word in verse 6. Let Reuben live and not die, and let not his men be few. Not is in italics, right? Let not his men be few. Take not out of that and see if it changes the meaning a little bit. I would say it changes it 180 degrees from what was meant, right? But they better take it out of the NIV, because they take the italicized words out, because they said they don't belong in the Bible, right? I mean, they took it out and made a contradiction over whether David or Alhanna killed Goliath. Pastor, read Deuteronomy, chapter 33, verse 6 to us, please. So, they added a word, just like the King James Translators did, but they never put it in tablets like the King James Translators did. What I'm telling you is, all Bibles add words. They all add words. Don't you kid yourself when somebody says, I don't like those whole bunch of words that was added upon the church, they're a good deal of fun. So, I don't like the words added by any translator. Tell you what I take care about, too. They all add words. So, whenever somebody tells you about the italicized word of the King James Bible, that is a straw man, that is a phony, that is a thug that somebody is just using to carve your Bible up, and you're safe to ignore that. All right, John, I have a little task for you. They have a footnote on this, don't they? Yeah. This thing reads this way, Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few. I mean, you read the footnote. Let Reuben live and not die, let his men be few. Alright, I'm going to ask Billy and Jerry to come up here. This is a new King James Version. This is the new American Standard Version. I tell people that the only good American Standard Version is made out of porcelain. OK? I'll pass it to the church. You use it every day. Yes, sir. As a matter of fact, you can use the American Standard and the King James at the same time. I don't claim inspiration for the King James Bible, and here's the reason why. I'm going to give you my definition of inspiration. You don't have to accept it. I accept it because I like it, okay? But, inspiration...Psalm 12, verse 6, the Word of the Lord are pure words, as silver-tide the furnace of earth purified seven times, right? Well, my definition of inspiration, you take a blank sheet of paper. You take a man in God, and he writes as God tells him to, alright? What you have when he's done is you have, hence my original. That is inspiration. Then he says in verse 7, thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever, alright? Now, this goal is long gone, but what do you have? We have a King James Bible. Now, I don't claim that the King James Bible is the inspired Word of God. Now, I've got some brethren that do, and that doesn't bother me at all. I don't just go and argue with them. The reason I don't claim it as inspiration for the King James Bible is that, according to this definition... you don't have to accept my definition. I can tell you I like it, so I accept it. This is inspiration. So, the blank sheet of paper, a man and God, and he writes what God tells him to. If the King James Bible is inspired in that manner, then the King James Translator didn't have to have any Hebrew, didn't have to have any Greek, didn't have to have any Latin, didn't have to have any manuscript or anything like that. All they had to do was sit there with a blank sheet of paper, wait for God to tell them what to write, and they wrote, which is not what happened. All right? The second reason I don't claim inspiration with the King James Bible is because this one God said He's going to preserve. And so, if the King James were inspired in 1611, then it's in competition with this one, wherever God preserved it, alright? What I say is, that is inspiration, and the King James Bible is the preserved Word of God, alright? It is this preserved, just as divinely, okay? Think about it, people. Preservation, or inspiration without preservation, is a divine waste of time. I have, like, different, you know, knock-down trees, like, you don't have to level anything here. But, anyway, knock-down trees, you know, and you put this road through, that is...that's inspiration. And don't maintain it. You know what you got? I'll tell you what you got. You got the state of Pennsylvania. That's what you got. You got the Pahoa cap in the world. If you don't maintain it, then putting it through was a waste of time. And if...can you imagine this? God inspiring the Bible and then allowing it to be lost in history. Why did he do that? That was totally in vain if he did not preserve it. So, the King James Bible is the preserved Word of God. Now, I said that. Say this, we're going to look at something that, if it's not inspiration, it will do until we can find it. Now, go to Genesis, Chapter 22. Genesis, Chapter 22. In Genesis, Chapter 22, I think I might have mentioned it last night. Abraham, and he said, look, I want you to sacrifice your son to me. And so, Abraham is going to pick the boy up and sacrifice him to God, and you get up to about verse 7, and Isaac, you know, he's not stupid. How many things say, you know, here's the man of the hill, I got the wood, we got the fire. I don't say, we got the wood, we got the fire. I wonder if he's planning to do what he always threatened to do. And so he says, Hey Dad, here's what he says, verse 7, And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father. And he said, You're not my son. He said, The hope of fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? So we're worried about this, Bob. What does his dad say in verse 8? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself. Now, that is a prophetic reference to the Lord Jesus Christ. As I mentioned earlier, what did they get in the picket? The Lamb does not show up for over 1,800 years when John, standing on the shore or the bank of the Jordan River, points at Jesus Christ and says, Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Jesus Christ is a fulfillment of this prophecy. God will provide Himself a Lamb, and so God became the Lamb, right? Only if you've got a King James Bible. Let's see, let's hear it from the NIV. Preacher? God himself will provide the lamb. Well, God himself may provide it, but you've lost the prophetic reference, right? There's no prophetic reference to Jesus Christ. That's just him. I didn't bring it because God himself would provide it. Let's hear the New American Standard. God will provide for himself the lamb. All right, God will provide for himself. Can I say something? You needed the land, I needed the land, God didn't need the land. But, anyway, it says God will provide for Himself. All right, let's read the book really from the New King James. God will provide for Himself the land. Now, you'll note, and this is not accidental, you will note that the New King James reads just like the New Medicine. The claims of fame, all these guys, listen, you've always got to have a pitch. You've always got to have a pitch. The New England Standard's pitch is that it's a literal scholarly translation. The New International is that it's contemporary and easy to read. The New King James, their claim to fame is making a good thing, King James, making a good thing better. That's how they sell it. That's how they put all the ads up. Making a good thing better. In fact, they'll sell the New King James Bible. Do you know what Thomas Nelson Publishers did? Have any of you seen the facsimile of the 1611 that Thomas Nelson publishes? It looks like it's a little browner, about this big, and it's in the Gothic, with all the, you know, the V's that look like U's, U's look like V's, double L's and E's on the other word, S's, or F's that look like S's. Thomas Nelson published that facsimile. And I wondered, I thought, why would they do this? Why would they bring out a Bible like this? You know, we would like this. Why would they do this? Then they brought the New King James, and whenever they compare the New King James to a King James Bible, they don't compare it to the one on the pulpit, they compare it to the one they brought out, so that you can see that there's a major change, and that you really need the New King James, because you can't read this one, alright? people, I'm sorry, that's crooked. And so, they didn't make a good thing better, they just made it line up with the New American Standard. Time and again, the New King James, whenever it makes a change, it makes it line up with the New American Standard or the RSV, all right? So, it's not making a good thing better. You know, if the King James Bible's good enough for the Apostle Paul, I guess it's good enough for me. Here's what I'm going to say. If I could put two Bibles on this carpet... Now, let's say they both look identical. They are both black leather binding, they both have gilt-edged pages. One of them is a King James Bible, one of them is an American Standard. But, other than reading that, they both look identical from outside. If I put both of those Bibles here, and through this door came Dr. Luke, what two books of the Bible did Dr. Luke write? If I put those two Bibles on this paper and said, Hey, Doc, I didn't tell you to say...I didn't say, you know, that the King James Bible is something rotten up there. If I said, Doc, up in that pulpit are two books that claim to be the Bible. Would you tell me which one is and which one isn't? If I did no more than say that, Dr. Luke would come to this pulpit, he would open them both up, he would look at them, and then he would tell you the New Orlean Standard is not the Word of God and that the King James Bible is. Now, I would prove that. It's unlike all these other guys that make statements against the King James Bible, and nobody ever asks them to prove it. You say something like that, so they want you to prove it. I'll prove it. Oh, Jerry, you're the one we'll be looking at. Go to Luke, chapter 24. Folks, get Luke 24 in one hand, and Acts, chapter 1, in the other. Luke wrote the book of Acts, and watch what he does when he writes the book of Acts. He authenticates a copy of the Gospel of Luke. What I mean by that is he tells you how you can know if you have a legitimate copy of the Gospel of Luke. The former treatise had I made of Theophilus of all that Jesus began both to do and teach until the day in which he was taken up. is he just put a big parenthesis around an authentic copy of the Gospel of Luke. What he said is, if you've got an authentic copy of the Gospel of Luke, he said you've got to have what Jesus began to do in peace, and it's got to end with Him being taken up. What is that talking about? Taken up, where He's talking about? That's right, the Ascension, alright? You don't have to go there, because it's in the American Standard. It's also, of course, in the Bible. But, in Luke chapter 2, all I'm saying about verses 41 to 51, That's the passage of Scripture where you have Jesus Christ, he's twelve years old, they've been in Jerusalem, his family leaves Jerusalem, and they get three days out, and they say, hey man, Jesus isn't with us, and they go back, and where do they find him? They find him asking questions and answering questions, and basically going back and forth with the teachers, the scholars, right? You know that that is what Jesus began, do you agree? The Gospel of Luke is the only one of the four Gospels that tells us anything Jesus did. So, if Then, he said, until the day when she was taken up, right? Look at Luke chapter 24. Luke chapter 24, verse 51, says this, "...and it came to pass..." Now, right now, the Lord has come out of the grave, and He is talking to the eleven apostles, and He says, "...came to pass, while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven." Would you say that's taken up? Yeah, I'd say that fits the bill. So, in Luke, chapter 24, verse 51, Jesus Christ ascends into heaven. Luke pulls you back in Acts, chapter 1. If you have an authentic copy of the Gospel of Luke, it starts with what Jesus began both to do and teach, and it ends with Him being taken up. Now, you follow in the Bible and ask Brother Jerry to read just verse 51 out of Luke, chapter 24. And it came about that while he was blessing them, he parted from them. That's all of it, right? Now, in defense of the New American Standard, and I've got to make it up, in defense of the New American Standard, and that's what people always want to do, they always want to give these guys benefit of the doubt, these new versions, sometimes they move verse numbers. Maybe Ed carried up in heaven, got moved down to the next verse. Let's look at verse 52, and it says this, "...and they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy." and they return to Jerusalem to rejoin. Not only does Jesus Christ not get off the ground, but he doesn't get worshiped. Now, Luke told you, my former treatise ends with him being taken up. Does the Gospel of Luke in the American Standard end with him being taken up? Luke would tell you the New Reconstant Bible, the New Reconstant Version, is not the Word of God, because it doesn't have an authentic copy of his Gospels. Now, one of the things people like to say is this, and I say, you know what? Well, what does the manuscript evidence say for that? And, if you follow this crowd, they're always running through what they call the earliest or the best, and I'll give you the manuscript evidence for it. That phrase is removed from manuscript Aleph. It looks like a crooked X, which I think is probably very meaningful. It's removed from Aleph, it's removed from D, it's removed from a cursive manuscript 52, and it's removed from a 5th-century Kalimsek. Now, Kalimsek is not one of those things you get on your face and squeeze. In Bible days, you wrote out a letter on papyrus, or you wrote it out on vellum, you wrote it out on animal skins, leather. And what you did is you wrote somebody a letter, you sent them the letter on this animal skin, and you know what they did? They read your letter, then they took a rock and they scraped all your words off, and they wrote their own letters on somebody else. Then they did the same thing. They read it, scraped it all off, and wrote their own letters in some place else. And, when you have a poinsettia, that's where somebody has taken something, scraped it off, and written something else on it. In this case, somebody scraped something off and wrote a copy of Luke, or vice versa. They've got a copy of Luke that they can see through the something that's been scraped off and something written over top of it. There are two manuscripts that are called older, better. In this case, Alice stands against it. V, not V. V stands against it. Like I said, cursive, cursive number 52, and a fifth-century pen set. What has it in? Well, this is strange. B. Now, the reason I show you that is because these two usually stand against the King James Bible. By out of taking it out, somebody could say, well, one of the oldest or one of the best has it out. Well, you could say, well, one of the oldest or one of the best has it in. These are sister manuscripts, yet they stand against each other in this case. It's found in B, C, E, F, G, H, L, S, T, V. This is the only good TV, by the way. Y, Z, Manuscript, Delta, Theta, Z, Omega. Here's another one, P75. The P75 is a papyrus fragment that is a sister, also, to V. Vaticanus, and also almost always stands against the King James Bible. In this case, it reads with the King James Bible. Then, if you've got a Nestle's Greek New Testament, down in the Curriculum Apparatus, you'll see a little footnote that designates most remaining witnesses. You say, what does that mean? Oh, it could mean they were from two to five thousand manuscripts. How could anybody justify taking Ann Terry Cox into heaven out of that verse? You can't say the best manuscript or the oldest manuscript has it out, because what they call one of the best and oldest is Vaticanus. Now, I don't think it's one of the best, but they saw it say it's one of the best, and when the best has it out, when the best has it in. In fact, in this case, two witnesses that usually stand against the King James Bible stand with it. You can't say the majority is against the King James Bible. The majority is with the King James Bible. The oldest and best, quote-unquote, the majority, everything, reads with the King James Bible. Get the translation of the American Standard, took the ascension right out of there. Now, I've got news for you. I don't care if the manuscript evidence was the other way around. Luke said in Acts chapter 1, my former treatise ends with him being taken up. And if you... I don't care what the manuscript evidence is, if you've got a copy of Luke and Jesus Christ does not ascend into heaven at the end of it, you don't have an authentic copy of the Gospel of Luke. and they worshipped him. Remember that was removed? The manuscript's evidence for, and they worshipped him, is identical to this, except for one change. The one change is that Aleph gets his wicked heart right and comes down and joins King James Bible, with only three witnesses against. All of these four, the ones that they call the oldest and the best, saying, and they Jesus Christ still does not get any worship. Somebody doesn't want Jesus Christ worshipped, alright? I don't care if you can find worship of Jesus Christ in another place in the New American Standard. If you can find it twenty times there, I can find at least twenty more in the King James Canon. In fact, if you read the New International, you'll find out that whenever it talks about worshipping Jesus Christ, when somebody says, somebody came and worshipped him, The New Internationals say they came and bowed down. Now, you've bowed down to pick up a quarter off the sidewalk. You've bowed down to tie your shoes. You don't have to be bowing down to worship. And so, they want to get rid of the worship of Jesus Christ. Alright, let's...ah, here's one. Let's see, Billy. I'm going to ask you to take this and put that one down for a second. Now, I use an old Schofield Bible, alright? Now, people, as a rule, I don't go making, you know, statements, calling people names, or anything like that. But what I have in my hand here is, it says, Holy Bible, New Schofield Reference Edition. This is a New Schofield Bible. Actually, it's a New Schofield version, because it's not a Bible. And this Bible in my hand is a double lie, alright? I don't often say that, but I'm going to prove it. And, to prove it, all we've got to do is go to the title page. The title page says this, Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version. Alright, do I have a King James Version there? Do I have a King James Bible in my hand? That's what it says right there, Authorized King James Version. Here's the problem. What the New Schofield translators did was they took words out of the text of the King James Bible and put them in the margin, and put their own word in the text. And every time they did that, they would put the word in the margin, and in the margin, they'd put it beside...they'd put a little KJV beside it. Now, let me ask you a question. If the text is King James Bible, why do you got to put something in the margin telling you what the King James Bible says? Now, to prove that, I have meticulously marked several places in this. Right there, this is page 238. It has been changed one, two, three, four. Four times on page 238. Page 239 has been changed one, two, three, four. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Eleven times on two pages. That's a lot. They average about three times per page. Here, you've got them five and a half times a page, in two pages. Well, let's see if I can find that other place that I had marked. This is the end of 2 Kings. It's been changed on page 458. King James Bible's been changed. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Ten times on page 458. Page 459, it has not been changed once, which is still averaged out five for the two pages. Ten on this one, none on this one. This may be only about the second time, although, of course, that's 1 Chronicles. I guess they have a hard time changing the King James Bible. New Testament has double margins, by the way. They'd rather put a margin down the center than put a margin on each side, I guess, so they could change it twice as much. This is page 1128. The King James Bible has been changed one, two, three times. I told you, it averages out about three times on this page, three times on this page. Do you know what that makes for us, Alfred R. Stingray's version? It makes it a lie. That's a lie. I'll tell you, do you know what the other lie is? The other lie is right here. It says, New Scofield Reference Bible. This is not a Scofield Bible. You say, oh yeah, it is, look right there. Editor, C.I. Schofield, D.D. You know what the D.D. stands for? Dead Doctor. The guy died 46 years before they did this. Boy, that's a rather select resurrection, wouldn't you say? Boy, I could just see C.I. Schofield walk around the heaven and say, hey guys, it's been great, but you know, they've asked me to go down and do my Bible again. I've got to go down. But that's not why it's not a Schofield Bible. Here's why it's not a Schofield Bible. Go to 1 Corinthians, chapter 11. Now, here's what they do in the old Schofield and new one. Whenever they have a note, they will insert in the verse a number, a one, a two, a three, whichever successive note it is for that page, which instructs you to go down to the corresponding note at the bottom of the page for that number. In 1 Corinthians, chapter 11, Paul is talking about the Lord's Supper. He makes this statement in verse 23. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread." Alright, I'm going to read again, and then I'll stop. Right in front of the word, that, is a one. That is telling me I need to read note number one at the bottom of the page. I'm going to read note number one. The Lord's Supper is one of two ordinances or sacraments of the Church for this age. The other being water baptism. How many of you used to be Roman Catholics? And what does a sacrament do? Disposes saving grace, right? That note just told you you have to be baptized, or you have to take the Lord's Supper. I'm sorry, you have to take the Lord's Supper to be bestowing saving grace. You have to take the Lord's Supper. Now, Billy, look at chapter 11, verse 43. Look at the number that's there in the verse and read the note. That note does not exist in an old-school field Bible. That's not a Schofield note. If they would dig up Schofield right now, they'd find him face down. He has turned over his grave. You say, over this? No, over Acts chapter 8. Acts chapter 8, verse 12, "'For when the blue Philip, preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.'" You see the word baptized? In terms of the word baptized, in the New Scoprheal Bible, New Scoprheal Version, there's a number two. That is directing me to note number two at the bottom of the page. There are some paragraphs, and when we go to the first one, we'll read you the third one. Check this out. Baptism has, since the Apostolic Age, been practiced by every major group in the Christian Church and in Protestant Communions. Now, in this country, if you're not Protestant, you're what? They just said you need a Protestant or Christian. If you're a Protestant, that's exactly what it means. The note, that note just said the Roman Catholic Church is the Christian church. It wouldn't even call this a church. It didn't say Protestant churches, it said Protestant Communion. You know why? Because the Roman Catholic Church would tell you to say a church. They're the true church, you're outside that church, you're just a bunch of Protestants communing together. So, this is not a Protestant church. Now, I understand, you know, about being baptized without Protestant name, but the fact is, this is not a Protestant church, this is a Protestant Communion. Now, it's been practiced by every major group of the Christian Church and in Protestant Communions. His recognizer is one of two sacraments, the other being the Lord's Supper. They just told you, baptism bestows saving grace. That's what they're saying. It is a sacrament. It's worth it. The other being the Lord's Supper. Since early in the Church's history, three different modes of baptism have been used. Aspersion, sprinkling, effusion, pouring, and immersion, dipping. Noble chapter and verse to tell that, to prove that. They just said that they always used it, three different ways. Now, everybody that got baptized in the Bible went down into the water and got dosed. So, what do you got? You got a note that says there's the Catholic Church, the Protestant Communions. It says you've got to take a sacrament, which is getting dosed in water, and that'll be soul-saving grace, and take the Lord's Supper. Maybe every week, I don't know, you know? Maybe it's a little while away, but I don't know. Stick the roof of your mouth up there right now. And there's three different ways to be baptized. Really, look at Acts, chapter 8, verse 12, and read the note that is referred to in that verse. There's no note. There is no note. That was never in C.I. Schofield's Bible, and I'll tell you something, they had to wait till the guy was dead almost fifty years before they put it in. You know there's mistakes in your Bible? Listen, there's not only mistakes in the Bible, but there's mistakes in there that God puts there. Go to 1 Chronicles, chapter 11. Yet, I appreciate a God that can make a good old-fashioned mistake. In 1 Chronicles, chapter 11—and I'm not going to read the verse, it's verse 11—it talks about the end of about 300 slain by him at one time, and it refers me to note number two. Here's what it says. This is one of the paragraphs. Whenever you hear anybody talking about, I believe the Bible and the original autographs, you do not have a Bible believer. I don't care if they've got a King James Bible in their hand that says King James only in their church sign. When they say original autographs, you have got a fraud. All right? All right, God gave us a Bible free from error in the original manuscripts. In its preservation, through many generations of copying, He providentially kept it from That's why I said, how would you like to wake up from surgery and the guy tell you, you say, how did you know that? Well, we didn't have any serious error. You know, you will be eating through your ear now, but other than that, nothing serious, nothing serious. As we said, no serious error. Watch this. He providently kept it from serious error. God permitted a few scribal mistakes." 1 Chronicles 1111, page 473, New Schofield Bible, says, not only are there mistakes in the Bible, God allowed them. God put them there. Really, what's the note say? No note. That is not C.I. Schofield's note. This is not a Schofield Bible. This is not a King James Bible. It is a double lie, all right? Hey, think about it. When you can't get past a title page without lying twice, right? They're lying twice on the title page. You say, why dare? Because of what they think printed before them. But, for the first opportunity, look at this. There are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen lines of proof on that page. They lied twice in the first three. I mean, literally, they only lied... You can tell that when they're lying, their lips are moving. All right? First opportunity they had to lie, they lied from the Schofield records. Second opportunity, heard it by a law-abiding, stingy person, they lied twice. Man, when you can't get past the title page, I've been lied to twice. What makes you think you can get anything out of this? Now, I won't tell you how you end up with lawyers. Somebody might have one. You know how you end up with this? You went in saying, well, I want a King James Bible, and I want to spring to you a Bible, and this guy says, yeah, this is it, it's a New Schofield, it's the new, see, it's a King James, they're right there, King James Orthodox Version, and so you get it, and here's what you say. I tell you what's wrong, and you go, gee, I paid a hundred dollars for that! If all you are ever cheated out of in your lifetime is a hundred bucks, you've done well. Take the hit, write off the hundred bucks, and get rid of New Schofield. It is not a Sculpture Bible, it is not a King James Bible. It's a double lie. Why would you buy a Bible from somebody who lied to you twice in the first three lines of the final page? All right, let me see, I'll take this back. We're going back to the NIV. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's look at this. Go to Psalm 12. Now, you have to understand something, and I know that these guys all sit around, these new translators all sit around, you know, like they love the Bible, love God, and they just kind of do God a favor by bringing out their new versions. And I am here to tell you that somewhere in their little, wicked human hearts, they absolutely hate that book. Now, you know how they hate it? You know you hate it by the way they handle it. And I'm going to show you a passage that they hate. I already quoted it. Psalm 12, verse 6 and 7. The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried the first of her purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever. Verse 6 is inspiration, verse 7 is preservation. Do you know how much the new modern translators despise the doctrine of preservation? See, we say God preserved His words, said right there in verse 7, He's going to preserve the words He's talking about in verse 6, right? And I've got a copy right here in the King James Bible. This last year, I did the John Ankerberg TV program, and on that program was Congressman Bozo from the Dallas Theological Seminary. There was a guy named John Wilkins from the American Standard Version Committee. There was Art Karstad, who was the executive head of the New King James. There was James White, alias Snow White, and, you know, he was right up against it. Then there was Ken Barker, head of the New International Version Committee, alright? Now, I'm going to ask your pastor to read verses 6 and 7. You follow in the Bible, Audien, Audien. Watch an important change. and the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay purified seven times. O Lord, you will keep us safe and protect us from such people forever." You can no longer use verse 7 to prove preservation of the Word of God, right? Now, have you ever heard Dr. Ruckman say, You can correct the Greek with the English, and you've heard all the biographers who think they go ballistic on that. No, this is you correct the Greek with the English. Under a test Friday night, Ken Barker, head of the New International Version Committee, believes you can correct the Hebrew with the English. The Hebrew word that is translated, them, twice in verse 7. is third-person plural. What's third-person plural? Death? It's not first-person plural. They translated it first-person plural. Do you know how many Hebrew manuscripts have first-person plural? None on the face of this earth. There is no Hebrew authority whatsoever for what they did in verse 17. Why'd they do it? Because they wanted to get rid of that reference. I brought that up to Ken Barker. And I said, you guys, without Hebrew authority, change Acts chapter 12, verse 7. Here is what he said. I'm sorry, Psalm 12, verse 7. Psalm 12, verse 7 is not referring to verse 6. It's referring back to the poor people mentioned in verse 5, and I think that that's what it's referring to, not the words of God. Then he said, I would never translate it that way. He'd never say that. What did he just say? through my translation in English can improve on the original Hebrew. God said them. I don't care. I don't care. Verse 7 is referred back to verse 5. God said them, didn't He? He didn't say us. And Ken Barker said, he didn't say it in so many words. He did not say these words. God didn't do it right until I translated it, that it got right, and so I put us, first person plural, instead of third person plural. That is correcting the Hebrew with the English, with no Hebrew authority whatsoever. Go to Matthew, Chapter 17. We're about done. Matthew, Chapter 17. Matthew, Chapter 17, we've got a guy in there who's got a demon-possessed son. He's got this demon-possessed son, and the apostles tried to cast this demon out. They couldn't do it, so the Lord does it. And then they go to the Lord and say, how come I couldn't do it? How come we couldn't do it? And the Lord says this in Matthew, chapter 17, verse 21, "'How be it this kind to look not out but by prayer and fasting?' All right? Pastor, would you read verse 21, Matthew, chapter 17, from the New International Version? Right after 20? Well, it ain't gonna happen. What comes after twenty? Twenty-two. Three? You guys thought twenty-one. I told you, I tried to give you a break, I tried to give you the stupid test, and you kept failing. Look at Matthew chapter 18. Matthew chapter 18. Tell me this is an insignificant verse. You know, one of the things these guys like to say is, well, you know, the changes are not major enough. Or, they say, if you took all of the differences between the NIV and the King James Bible, they would only amount to about two pages. Well, that's right. Yeah, that's right. It's not hands and knees and butts. It's things like this. Tell me this is an insignificant change. Matthew, chapter 18, verse 11, "'For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.'" You know what that's talking about? Yeah, us! Preacher! Could you read verse 11? None in there. What's after ten? What comes after ten? Twelve, of course. So, you guys fall in love in ten. You know what the Bible says? Now, go to Mark, chapter 9. Genesis chapter 40, that when God says something twice, it's established. God talks to us kind of like you talk to a teenager, you know, slowly. Anyway, I got this friend of mine, he's got two teenage girls, and he said, I just tell him everything twice. He said, I just say, go clean your room, go clean your room. He said, they get mad at me, but he said, look, I know, but I've told them twice anyway, so I'm saving that time in between. Well, that's what God said. God said, if I tell you twice, I mean it. Let me ask you a question. If God says it twice, it's established. What do you think it means when He says it three times? What if you didn't know anything about hell and you came to Mark, Mark chapter 9, and You find the Lord makes a rather graphic statement about hell in Mark, chapter 9. Does he say it once? Does he say it twice? Mark, chapter 9, verse 44, "...where there warmed Ieth not, and the fire is not quenched." Verse 46, "...where there warmed Ieth not, and the fire is not quenched." Verse 48, "...where there warmed Ieth not, and the fire is not quenched." If you didn't know anything about hell before you opened up this chapter, when this chapter is over, what do you know about hell? where there were inbounds not, and the fire is not quenched, right? Pastor, read verse, if you would, verse 44 for us. 44 is gone. Well, what's after 43? 45, of course. All right, then read 46. It's gone. Well, what's after 45? 47. They're numbered, let's see, they're numbered 42, 43, 45, 47, 48. Two references to hell, two statements made by Jesus Christ about hell, are removed from the NIV. Now, here's the problem. This is a little bit false, so let's put on a board behind me. That's not how they're numbered. That is how they're numbered, but that's not the order. You see, what you're going to find out about all these new versions is they take the way of King James 5 and lay it out—verse 1, verse 2, verse 3, verse 4, verse 5—and they put the verses in paragraph form. You see, if they laid this thing out like a King James Bible, you'd notice it, wouldn't you? I did another program that's...I got some tapes back from a couple of years ago. The host of the program had an NIV that he read through cover to cover once a year. And he was out, you know, this guy was as pure as driven snow. He had questions. There was no guile in him. He was as nice as he could be. And during the first break, the first program, I asked him this. I said, how about taking your NIV and reading Matthew 17, 21 to me? He opened it up. Now, he'd read this thing cover to cover every year. He opened it up and said, it's not in there. I said, well, then read Matthew 18, 11. It's not in there. He told me, he said, Brother, I read this book, cover to cover, every year. I never saw that. Well, Brother, you've got to be an idiot. Go ahead, you've got an NIV. How about making an idiot? Here's what they do. They do this. By putting it in paragraph form, they go, verse 42, verse 43, verse 44. You say, oh, they don't make it that small. Check it out. Just see if one happens after the service, and check it out. Verse 47, verse 48, verse 49, and then it might go to verse 50. And by putting them in paragraph form, you read through there, you ignore those small numbers, you don't even know the verses are going. There are seventeen verses missing. I'm going to write them up here for you so that you can check them later. They are Matthew chapter 17, verse 31, chapter 18, verse 11, chapter 23, verse 14, Mark chapter 7, verse 16, chapter 9, verse 44, chapter 9, verse 46, chapter Chapter 11, verse 26. Chapter 15, verse 28. Luke, chapter 17, verse 36. Chapter 23, verse 17. John, chapter 5, verse 4. Acts, chapter 8, verse 37. Chapter 15, verse 34. Chapter 24, verse 7. Romans, chapter 16, verse 24, and 1 John, chapter 5, verse 7. Now, I will say this. You don't know it, but by taking those verses out, that does prove one thing about the NIV, if they say it's true. It is a modern translation. It is a modern translation. You are, no? Look, a few ladies, Thanksgiving comes around, you make a poke and buy it. You serve the pumpkin pie, what do you put on top of the pumpkin pie? Whipped cream. Cool Whip, usually, right? But, and you know how I like to ask this question, Churches? No woman will say, will answer this right. I hope you're all scared, you think we don't know. What is the one problem with Cool Whip? You make calories, right? So, instead of getting Cool Whip, you get Cool Whip Lightweight. What is that? That's Cool Whip for something taken out. I am not a beer drinker. But you go out and get a Miller, or you get a what? Miller blank. This has 17 verses missing. It has a total of 64,000 words removed. You know what this is right here? That's King James 5. This is the Bible. You know what this is? The Bible blank. It's this with something taken out. You don't have to worry about getting fat. You don't even have to worry about growing, alright? So, it is a lot of translation. Now, I said that 1 John, chapter 5, verse 7 is not found in that version. It's also not found in the American Standard. I'm going to ask both Jerry and your pastor to look at 1 John, chapter 5. 1 John, chapter 5 is the single greatest verse on the Trinity, alright? It is the strongest single-proof text on the existence of the Trinity. The Trinity is found all through the Bible. But only in 1 John, chapter 5, verse 7, is it put so plainly. Here's what it says, for there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. There is no verse 7 in the New American Standard, there is no verse 7 in the NIV. Brother Jerry, you don't have to read anything. What is the verse number after verse 6? 2. Did I say there was no verse 7? Preacher, what's the number after verse 6 here, doesn't it? Doesn't it say 7? I just said that there was no verse 7, didn't I? In those two versions. Those guys just said there's verse number 7. There is no verse 7 in those versions. There is a number 7. Verse 7 has been removed. What has been done is what we call sleight of hand. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. That verse is found nowhere in the text of either one of those versions. Let's back up to verse 6, and here's what you're going to find out, the translators, of course, will wonder, dear. Look at verse 6. This is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by water and blood, and it is the Spirit that bears witness because the Spirit is true. What you're going to find out is that the translators of the New American Standard remove verse 7, split verse 6 right in the middle, move the last half of verse 6 down to make a false verse 7. Now, you folks follow in...you read verse 6. Jerry, read just verse 6, nothing more. This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with water only, but with the water and with the blood. Now, you're done with verse 6, right? Keep reading verse 6. Jerry, read verse 7." "And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth." There is no verse 7. Verse 6 has been split and moved down to cover for the fact that verse 7 has been stolen. Now, can you do that and pretend to have integrity? Can you do that and pretend to be honest? Do you think we can get away with something like that? I don't care how you put it. I don't care what you say. You can't defend that. That is downright crooked. In fact, that is so crooked, the New American Standard translators taking verse 7 out, splitting verse 6 and making a false verse 7, is so crooked that the translators of the New International Version would not stoop so low as to take verse 7 out, split verse 6, and make a false verse 7. They wouldn't stoop that low to do that. They split verse 8. Look at verse 8, "...and there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood, and these three agree in one." Look at verse 8, "...and there are three that bear witness." That's it. You watch. That's going to be all of verse 7. "...in earth," disappears somewhere, and then the rest of that verse 8 goes along to be the verse 8 for the NIV. Pastor, would you read just verse 7? Number 7, "...for there are three that testify." It doesn't read like your verse 7, does it? Read verse 8, folks. Now, Pastor, read verse 7. Just 7 again? Okay. 7, 4, there are three that testify. Now, read verse 8. 8. The Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three are in agreement. All right? Now, people, the New American Standard. You see this? The translators, New American Standard and NIV, they play the solid game. You know what the standard rule is? The King James Bible is always wrong. The only thing they know for sure is the King James Bible is wrong for having verse 7 in it. They can't even decide what should be verse 7, and they don't care what is verse 7 as long as the real verse 7 is removed. Now, if this were done in a business environment, someone would go to prison. If you enter a business partnership with somebody, your contract has about 10 paragraphs. You go to your partner one day and say, hey man, you violated paragraph 7. And he says, no, and he goes and gets a copy of his contract and says, look here, we're reading paragraph 7, it doesn't say anything. What are you doing? You've taken paragraph 7 out, you split paragraph 6 and made a false paragraph 7. You could take that to court and put him in prison. These guys don't go to prison, they go to the bank. If that were done in a business environment, somebody would be in jail. Now, I told you, I'm done. I told you, all of these versions like to have something, you know, they have to have a cliché. They have to have a cliché, you know, like it's not the right story to be told, they don't understand the words. This is the New English Bible. And, it has its swing to fame. Usually, it says, the New English Bible expresses no denominational or doctrinal viewpoint. Are you like a Bible that has no doctrine? Oh yeah, you are a Bible that has no doctrine in it. It is not a revision of any previous version, but a completely new rendering. Now, I believe it's a rendering, all right? Now, here's what they're after. You ready for this? Completely new rendering which seeks to achieve clarity, dignity, and, in many places, true poetry. So, when these guys sat down, one day after, they looked at three things. Clarity, dignity, and true poetry. All right? That's the New English Bible. Go to Judges chapter 1. Now, we want this. See, this is why you need this. You need this because you need one with what? Clarity, dignity, and true poetry. All right? Here we are, Judges chapter 1. All right, go, Jerry. Would you read Judges chapter 1, verse 14, right here in yellow, in the New English Bible? Judges 1-14 in New English. And she sat on the ass. And she sat on the ass, she broke wind, and Caleb said, What did you mean by that? Well, you've got to admit, that's funny, isn't it? Poetic. Poetic. It may fall a little short on the dignity, but it's about as close to true poetry as you can get. Beautiful thing. Isn't that a gas? Just for effect. Here, read it again. And she settled the house, she broke wind, and Caleb said, What do you mean by that? standard part of God having done that through His Bible. You know what's really sad about that? You know I told you about parallel passages? That passage is paralleled in Joshua chapter 15, verse 18, and it reads exactly the same way. That's not in your works. That's in there twice. There's no way you can get that from the Hebrew. That is plainly somebody that hates the Bible. And they know they can put it in because they know Christians don't read the Bible anymore. They don't read the book. People, that's garbage, alright? That is garbage. You know what you got? You got the King James Bible. You got the Word and the words of God right there. Is that not true? People, you don't need...the NIV is not more modern, it is not more up-to-date. You saw that. It is not more accurate, it is not even honest, all right? You know what you want? You want a King James Bible. You know what you want to do with it? Yeah, get one and put it on your coffee table like this one is. What you need to do is get the first rose from the first date you ever had and smash it flat and hang your family tree on the front. That's what you get a King James Bible for, right? Read it. Tell you about this, I've got Roman Catholic churches in town. Are they reading their Bible? Well, you know, if you're not reading yours, you're getting everything out of yours or getting out of theirs? You are getting no more out of your Bible, in your personal Bible reading, than they're getting out of theirs if you're not reading yours. And what good does it really do to have a perfect Bible that you don't read?