I can just stay right here and not move around. Isaiah 66. Thus saith the Lord, that heaven is my throne. Well, that's the highest place in existence. The earth is my footstool. That's probably the lowest. Where is the house that you build unto me, and where is the place of my rest? For all those things have mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord. But to this man will I look, even to him that is poor. He's not talking about financially, he's talking about humility here. Him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. He that killeth an ox, as if he slew a man. He that sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck. He that offereth an oblation. as if he offered swine's blood, he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idle gate, they have chosen their own ways, and contrary to the word of God, verse two, and their soul delighteth in their abominations, I, God, I also will choose their delusions. Now what he said in 2 Thessalonians 2, 11, is send a strong delusion that they believe a lie, and will bring their fears upon them, because when I call, none did answer, when I speak, They did not hear, but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word. Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified. That's what the enemies of this book do, by the way, the ecumenical crowd. It's not about doctrine, it's about love. Let's just all love one another. Those that cast you out for my name's sake, said, let the Lord be glorified, but He shall appear to your joy. You that love the word of God, tremble at it. God will appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed. Father, we thank you for this book. Lord, it's the most valuable possession I have. Physically speaking, this book, it's greater than anything else on this planet. And God, let us just magnify the word for a few minutes. In Jesus name, amen. Somebody said the Bible is falling apart. It belongs to somebody who isn't. Amen. The movie said this book will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from this book. And it will. Amen. All kind of Little neat sayings have been said about the book. I'm not gonna spend a lot of time talking about that. One is that a clean Bible indicates a dirty heart. Amen. Think about it. Brother Charlie talked about his Bible falling apart. Yours should be if you've had it very long. Somebody said mark your Bible and then to mark you. Amen. Christendom has four final authorities. One is the church. That's the Roman Catholic position. Tradition of the church above the scriptures one is experienced. That's the charismatic position You haven't experienced it. So you don't know if it's real or not one is human reasoning or logic That's the liberal position that most Protestants fit into that all humanist child psychologists That's a that's a misnomer if there ever was one they fit in that category The Word of God is the other one and that's the position of Bible believing Christians. We believe this book Well, you can't inspire a translation, then you better kick out about 75 verses of the New Testament because they translated from verses in the Old Testament. Psalm 119 verse 89. Forever, O Lord. Thy word is, is present tense settled in heaven. By the way, there are no originals. They've long since gone to dust. They don't exist. Nobody has one. Nobody living has ever seen one. So this baloney about the divinely inspired originals is nonsense. Either you got the word of God today or you don't have it. Amen. And it's in our language. God has always spoken to the common man. Mark 12, verse 37. English IS the language of the last days. It's the language of the Internet. It's the language of international commerce. It's the language of the last days. And you got God's words in the language, the common language of the last days. Sorry, it ain't Spanish. It ain't Chinese. It's English. And by the way, most people in the world speak English anyway. It's the second language in most of the countries. The King James is the seventh in the line of real English Bibles. Wycliffe was the first one, 1382. He did not use the TR, by the way. He used the Latin Vulgate to translate from. Tyndale was 1525, Coverdale 1535. You taking notes? The Great Bible, 1539. You getting all this down? Brother Justice said the CD will cost you a dollar. You can take notes all you want to. Geneva 1560, Bishop's Bible 1568, King James 1611. God was purifying the Bible, purifying the language. The King James has come through seven editions. None of them changed any doctrinal statements. They dealt with typos, with errors in printing, with spelling errors and things of that nature. Not one doctrinal issue has been changed from 1611 to 1769, which is the edition you've got in your hand, 1769. And nothing changed in there as far as doctrinal issues at. God was PURIFYING the language bringing it to those seven editions there. Now, the perverters teach that King James is just a translation. Let me say it's not a translation at all. It's the Bible! It's the King James Bible, not the King James VERSION! The VERSIONS are offshoots of the REAL THING! But they'll tell you it's just a translation, so it's no more valid than the other one. A lot of translations, they'll say some are closer to the originals than the King James. I've never seen one that was any closer myself, and you're not going to either. And they'll say, even though some of them will say, well, we believe the King James is the best, the best there is, but it's subject to of the world. He puts out a lot of material upholding the King James Bible, but he thinks it's subject to revision. He's a TR man. There's a difference in those two things. Do you understand that? First of all, if you riff about the TR, I've got the Word of God in English, and that's all I need. Look at Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews chapter 11. Now there's three passages in the Bible that uses the word translate, and one of them uses it three times. It shows up five times in the scriptures, and the one with the three times is Hebrews chapter 11, verse 5. And these five times give us some little insight into what God means by translation. Verse 5, By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him. For before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. Well, let's glean a couple things out of this. First of all, the Word of God was translated that he should not see death, just like Enoch was. Hey, Hebrew, for all practical purposes, is a dead language! Less than one percent of the world even speaks it! Ninety-nine-plus percent wouldn't understand it if they heard it! It's a DEAD language! God brought it out of deadness, translated it should not see death. Second thing in that verse, the translation that God made is DESTINED NOT TO BE FOUND. Look at Amos chapter 8 for just a moment, Amos. Ezekiel, Daniel, Joel, Hosea, I mean Hosea, Joel, Amos chapter 8, it's DESTINED NOT TO BE FOUND. Enoch was not, they could not find him. Chapter 8, verse 11, it's page 939, okay? I'm hearing pages rustle everywhere. Amos 8 verse 11, Behold, the day is come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread nor thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. And they shall wander from sea to sea, Atlantic to Pacific, and from the North even to the East. They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it. Go in the average so-called Christian bookstore and ask for a Bible and look at what they hand you. The King James will be the last thing they'll hand you and you'll have to ask specifically for it. They'll have to get off the bottom shelf and blow the dust off of it in most cases. Destined not to be found. Every sane person today wouldn't know the Bible if it slapped him, the real Bible if it slapped him in the face. All kind of stuff out there. The third thing we find out from chapter 11, verse 5 of Hebrews, even before the translation, it had this testimony that it pleased God. The Word of God has always pleased God. It had that testimony before the translation, but may I say it pleases Him even more AFTER the translation because before the translation, there was a bunch of different scrolls scattered EVERYWHERE. If you want to read Isaiah, you've got to go over here and get this scroll, but now I've got it. I've turned right to it in this one volume and it's the WHOLE Word of God! Pleases Him more today than it ever has! And by the way, this is the only way the Word of God has ever been in one place at one time. Isn't that way in Old Testament days and New Testament days and all that? Translation and resurrection go together. For 1,000 years the world calls it the Middle Ages. The truth is it was the Dark Ages because the Bible was taken out of the hands of the people by the Catholic Church. It was a capital offense to have a Bible. You'd be burned at the stake. So the Bible went underground in the underground churches, and through translation, it's been brought above ground and resurrected. Amen. Now the other two places where the word is found, and for the sake of time, we won't turn there. And by the way, it's not lost, Enoch wasn't lost either. God knew exactly where he was at, even though nobody else knew where he was at. In Colossians 1 verse 13 it mentions the word TRANSLATION. When something's translated, it goes from darkness to light. Now, the average, listen, an eight-year-old kid can open that book and read it and understand it. And then in 2 Samuel 3 verse 10, once it's translated, it becomes eternal. The kingdom was taken from Saul and given to David, which is an eternal kingdom. The throne is forever and ever, and Jesus Christ is going to sit on it one day, so it becomes eternal once it is translated. And because of that, Revelation 20, in the Great White Throne Judgment, the Bible says the books were opened. Well, you've got all 66 of them in your hand. There's going to be some other books there, but I guarantee you this one will be there. God will say to that person, here's what I said, why didn't you do it? Give you some interesting things about the King James. It works in Believers, 1 Thessalonians 2, 13. It actually worketh in you that, what does that mean? It's alive. This book is alive. It'll judge your thoughts, Hebrews 12, 4 verse 12. It's a discerner of the thought. You can't go very far in this Bible without running face to face with yourself. Amen. John 12, verse 48, the words that I speak, they're gonna judge you one day. It's a living book. Hebrews 4, 13, it says, all things are naked and open unto the eyes of Him with whom we have a deal. The antecedent of the pronoun Him is the Word of God in verse 12. It's a living book. Amen. It has foresight. It preaches. Galatians 3 verse 8, it will preach to you. Now let me say this for what it's worth. When you're parents are dealing with your children, bring the Word of God into it. Just to give you a little story of what happened when my daughter was young, and I'm not going to call her name, so I wouldn't want you to know who I'm talking about. But when my daughter was a teenager, she got in a madness one day. She got out of charge one day, and I started dealing with her, telling her and talking to her, trying to get her attention. I could see in her face, wasn't nothing gonna change. You ever see rebellion in your kids? I started quoting scripture to her, and I began to see her face and her confidence start to melt, and before it was over with, repentance settled in. Now, of course, she doesn't remember that, because she never remembers doing anything wrong in the past, right, Jimbo? I'm taking the Word of God and get to the heart. It's a living book. It has foresight. It preaches. It speaks. Romans 9, 17. When I was in Bible college in speech class, somebody said, you know the Bible says, and the teacher spoke up and said, the Bible doesn't say. The Bible doesn't speak. The Bible doesn't have the math. What we should say is we read in the scriptures. Paul didn't go to speech class, he said, the scripture sayeth. And if you're saved, it'll talk to you. The Bible is not a science book per se, but it's 100% accurate in every scientific statement it makes, and it runs 3,000 and 4,000 years ahead of humanity with what it says. Just to give you a few little things, Luke 17, 30 to 34, day and night occur at the same time. Nobody knew that when that was written. when they started letting up high-altitude weather balloons and really mapped out air currents. If they'd read Ecclesiastes, they'd have known about that ahead of time. Ecclesiastes 1-7 gives the water cycle, why the oceans don't rise with all that water from the rivers running into them. Leviticus 15, 13, if you want to be clean, use running water. That wasn't discovered until the 19th century. Some of you know the story of Dr. Semmelweis over there in Austria about the physicians cleaning their hands before they go from patient to patient, and it would stop some of the death rate in the hospitals. In Job 37, verse 7, all fingerprints are different. You can tell a man's work by his fingers. Amen. By the way, heel prints are different as well. What am I trying to say? Birth certificates now. Psalm 104 verse 15. Vitamin E will strengthen your heart. The Bible talks about vitamin E. Oh yes it does. Of course it calls it bread and wheat. Nehemiah 2 verse 9 talks about combustion engines before the Lord's return. Do we have those today? Ezekiel talks about the engines of battle. Anesthesiology was discovered because, whatever his name, the father of anesthesiology over there. In Britain, he read in Genesis chapter 2 that when God did surgery and put the man to sleep, he said, hey, if we'll do that, we can get him through the surgery a lot easier. And he developed chloroform and all that stuff. Before that, the physicians would say things like, you cannot separate pain from the knife. Oh, yes, you can if you put him to sleep. I discovered that from the Bible, by the way. Amen. Isaiah 9 verse 5 talks about fuel in the battle machinery of Armageddon. Sure enough, we're going to use gasoline and all kind of stuff today. One of the men on the board of Standard Oil back in the 1950s, he said, gentlemen, we need to drill along the Nile River in Egypt. They said, how do you know when the oil's there? He said, because I read in the Bible that Moses' little ark had pitch on it. to make it waterproof. That is petroleum, and if it's petroleum, there's oil underneath that ground somewhere, and sure enough, they found oil over there because of what the Bible said. Job 25 verse 5, the moon does have no light of its own. It reflects light. There's Galileo's telescope that proved that in the 1500s. It has no light of its own. Job 38, verse 16 talks about freshwater springs in the ocean, and sure enough, they began to discover those in the 1850s. Freshwater boiling up in the ocean, it's coming from underground rivers flowing out the continental shelf and so on out into the ocean. Job 38, verse 19 tells you light is always moving, talks about the way of light. Job 38, verse 24, light can be divided. Isaac Newton invented his spectroscope and his prism and proved that's true. Job 38 verse 35 talks about the telephone, the telegraph, and all other electronic means of communication. Amen! I want you of snowfall, that makes Alaska a very wealthy, wealthy state if they could get, so what good is that stuff? It's used in explosives, it's used in fertilizer, ammonium nitrates, they're using all kind of stuff. All kind of money out there in the snow if they could just figure out a way to get it out. Back in the 1850s, a seaman by the name of Mallory was reading his Bible, and he read in Psalms about the paths of the sea. He said, if there's paths in that sea, I'm gonna find them, and he set out to do so, and found some of them, and more have been found, and they're called shipping lanes today. And ships get in those shipping lanes, the direction they're flowing, they can make more time and more speed crossing the ocean or wherever they're going. The Gulf Stream is one of them out there flowing down our coastline. It was in the Bible a long time ago. Some scientists ridiculed the Bible because Genesis said we're made out of dust, and Job said we're made out of clay. Dust comes from the carbon atom, clay comes from the silicon atom, and they said there's a contradiction there, we're not made out of clay. And then one day somebody discovered DNA. Silicon. And they used that in forensics to find out who you are. So you're made out of clay and dust. I'm telling you, this Bible NEVER FAILS! NEVER FAILS! This book is the seven-sealed book, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 of Revelation. And Jesus is the only one who can open the seals. He said, I open and no man shut if I shut, and no man can open it. He'll open it up to you if you'll let Him do that. The dedicatory, if you don't have a Bible with that in it, you ought to get one and read it. The dedicatory to the King James Bible written by the translator says, quote, ìTo the Most High and Mighty Prince James, by the grace of God.î The Hebrew for James is Jacob, and the Bible says about Jacob, Genesis 32, 28. For as a prince hast thou power with God, and with men it has prevailed. This book has power with God, and it has power with men, and it prevails because God said His Word would not return unto Him void. Isaiah 55 verse 11, and Ecclesiastes 8 verse 4 said, It is the Word of the King. King James Twenty-two adds up to nine, verses 22 and 23, add the numbers together, comes up to nine, and the number of fruit bearing. John chapter 15 is about fruit bearing, uses the word ABIDE or ABIDETH nine times in that chapter, talking about bearing fruit for the Lord. Genesis 9, God said, Be fruitful and multiply. Abraham was 99 years old when he bears fruit for God, the fruit that God promised. And this King James Bible, by the way, is the only Bible that ever brought real revival. For it's only when it's fruitful. Amen. Are y'all getting the idea? Psalm 16 has 11 verses. 1611, verse 1 says preserved. Verse 11 ends with the word evermore. This book is preserved for evermore. Psalm 16 is about Jesus, mentioned in verse 10. He's the Word of God, John 1, verses 1 to 3. In the volume of the book, 1611, it is written of me. The words are about Jesus. The WRITTEN Word is about the LIVING Word. You can't separate Jesus Christ and that book. This is God's integrity! This is God's character! Hath he said it, shall he not do it? Amen. Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the book. It's about the book of all things. 176 verses, that's 16 times 11. It's divided into 22 sections, eight verses each section. 22 sections, each one of them starting with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet in sequential order. Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega, if you will. He's the A to Z. He's the whole alphabet. As we heard the other day with telling us Brother, tell them who Jesus is. Amen. He's the alphabet. He's the whole thing. Isaiah is kind of a mini Bible. Sixty-six chapters. You've got sixty-six books. Chapter 1 matches Genesis, the first book. Chapter 40 matches Matthew, the 40th book. Chapter 66 matches Revelation, the 66th book. I've got a Hebrew Bible at the Homs Hall. It's just Old Testament. I've got an English and one in Hebrew. And the last book in the Hebrew Bible is 2 Chronicles. It's sort of different. When it got rearranged and brought into one volume, it got rearranged and it lays out the history of the nation of Israel, the layout we've got in our English Bible now. 2 Chronicles, the Jews are in captivity, 70 A.D. Ezra, the next book, they return, 1917, Balfour Declaration. Nehemiah they rebuild, 1948, the nation of Israel is born. Esther, the king's disobedient wife, is EXILED! Israel's wife, God's wife, Jehovah, Jehovah's wife, Israel, goes into the wilderness mid-tribulation. You know about all this, right? Revelation chapter 12, goes into there for 42 months. Job is a picture of Israel being persecuted by the Antichrist. It's 42 chapters, 42 months. The last chapter, the captivity is TURNED! and Job is back in fellowship with God again. The time of Jacob's trouble is over. Then you move into Psalms, David the king reigning on the throne forever and ever. I mean, it's laid out right. I even believe the chapter numbers and the verse numbers. Look at Psalm 138. I'll try to wrap up here. We've got lunch time here. Psalm 138. I know I'm going fast. I'm not trying to get it where you can write it down or anything, but it's good stuff anyway. Psalm 138, verse 2. You know the verse, and it got preached on a little bit the other night. I will worship toward thy holy temple and praise thy name for thy love and kindness and for thy truth. John 17, 17, thy word is truth, for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. How important is this book to God? Nehemiah 9, verse 5, Blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. His name is above all blessing, but has magnified His word above that. Philippians 2, 9-11, At the name of Jesus, everything shall bow, things in heaven, things in earth, things under the earth. And every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory. I'm talking about a name above every name. BE SAVED WITHOUT HIS NAME, ACTS 4, VERSE 12, THE NAME OF JESUS, WE CAN SAVE. HOW WONDERFUL, HOW IMPORTANT IS HIS NAME. SECURITY IS BASED ON HIS NAME, I SAMUEL 12, 22, THE LORD WILL NOT FORSAKE HIS PEOPLE FOR HIS GREAT NAME'S SAKE. I CHRONICLES 16, 29, GIVE UNTO THE LORD THE GLORY DUE UNTO HIS NAME. GOD WILL CURSE YOU IF YOU TAKE HIS NAME IN FAITH. VERY IMPORTANT TO HIM, BUT HE'S MAGNIFIED. above his name. Hey, I'm gonna tell you something, that book's more important than your salvation. God'll put everybody in hell before you violate one word of that book. Amen. We're gonna live by every word from the mouth of God, and some of you have never read every word. You never have. God put a curse on anybody who messes with this book in the beginning, Moses and Deuteronomy, in the middle, Solomon and Proverbs, and at the end, John and Revelation. He said, ìDonít you add anything to it, and donít you take anything from this.î He talks about the WORDS of the book over and over and over again. I've got about 7,000 volumes in my personal library. Take them all and burn them. Don't mess with this one. You know what a lot of you do? You read all kinds of books about the Bible, but you don't read the Bible. Books about the Bible are good, but you better start with this one.