This rain is pretty nice thing, isn't it? I like the rain. Of course, those of you that have gardens, you are really appreciating it right now, too. So it just seems like when it rains like that, it just pushes that garden out, those cucumbers and that squash and all that. Man, those things grow fast anyway. You'll go out there one day and there ain't nothing, and the next day, I mean, there'll be 10 of them, you know? And it's just like overnight, those things shoot out. And if you don't get them off there after about three or four days, man, those things will be so big, they'll have big old seeds inside of them. But that's okay, those are good too, you know? They'll fry up just as the rest of it will, you know? All right, if you're glad you're saved tonight, say amen. Alright, I appreciate you being here. And like I said this morning, we're going to talk about the King James Bible tonight. So that's what we're going to do. I'm going to give you some arguments that people pose against the King James Bible. And so as we go along, what I like to do is I like to do things like this to try to help to increase your faith in why we You'll hear these guys, they'll come up here and they'll pray, and they'll say, thank you, Lord, for the King James Bible, and we'll talk about where we stand on the King James Bible. And these are stepping stones. I can't give you everything there is about the King James Bible all in one service. So over time, what we do is we bring these things out, and over time, it increases your faith. Now, what it does too, and I'm sorry that it has to be this way, but if you've got a different version of Bible tonight, it makes you feel uncomfortable. It's gonna make you feel a little uncomfortable because, you know, God said in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 that he's not the author of confusion, is that right? So if everybody brings a different version of Bible in here and I get up with a King James Bible and I begin to read in it, they don't read exactly the same, even though the world tries to tell you that they are the same, they're not the same. Things that are different are not the same. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. So what I do as we go along is I try to show you some of these things, and hopefully you'll begin to see what we're talking about. And I may not persuade you, I may not. I mean, it might be that God has to be the one to do that, and it may take time to do that. But I hope and pray that over time, you open up your heart to what I'm saying, and I believe that God will show it to you in the long haul. All right, let's take our Bibles, if you will. We're gonna look at two places for our text, but first of all, we're gonna come to Ephesians chapter number one, That's Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and then that's Acts, Romans, 1st and 2nd Corinthians, Galatians, and then Ephesians. You got that, right? Okay, but anyhow, most people know the New Testament pretty good, but you've got the book of Ephesians. It's after Galatians, and it's Ephesians chapter one, and then we're gonna read two verses for our text here, and then we're gonna go over two books to your right to Colossians. So we've got Ephesians chapter number one, and we're gonna begin reading in verse number 17. Ephesians 1 verse 17, he said that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. Verse 18, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened. You may know what is the hope of His calling and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints. What you see there in verse number 17, He talks about the Father of glory, that He'll give you the spirit of wisdom and the spirit of revelation in knowledge of Him. So you've got wisdom and then you've got revelation and you've got knowledge in verse number 17. And that's the way you get that is through the Bible, through the word of God. And that's what I'm gonna try to do tonight is I'm gonna try to impart some of this revelation to you. I'm gonna try to impart some wisdom and some knowledge to you in verse 18 that your eyes, or excuse me, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened. In other words, your eyes being enlightened, opened to the truth. So if you don't believe the King James Bible is the only word of God tonight, then hopefully your eyes will be enlightened. Hopefully they'll be open to what we have to say here tonight. Now, if you will come over to Colossians chapter number four, Colossians chapter four. There may have, growing up, there may have been different versions of Bibles, but we just grew up with one Bible, the King James Bible. I didn't even know there was other versions for the longest time. I guess I probably wasn't, I don't know, I guess I was a teenager or so before I actually caught on to the fact that there's other versions of Bibles. So we see here in Colossians chapter four, verse number six, the Bible says, let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt. that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man." That you may know how you ought to answer every man. Now, this is called apologetics. If you've ever heard Bible studies and teachings and things like that, and you've heard apologetics, it doesn't mean that we're apologizing for what we believe. What apologetics would be is it means to give a defense. It means to give a reason. And so there's no doubt that probably some of us, if you've been saved very long, you've come across people that believe differently than you do when it comes to the King James Bible. And maybe in a conversation when you've come across this thing, maybe they've asked, why do you use the King James Bible? So in that conversation, they come up with an argument. You didn't know how to handle it, and maybe you didn't know what to say, or maybe you handled it the best way you could, and that's what you do. You handle it the best way you can until you can find an answer. He says in verse number six, let your speech be all way with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how ye ought to answer every man. So you're gonna learn how to answer others for what you believe. We believe certain things here tonight. You answer. You're gonna give an answer. You're gonna tell others. They're gonna ask about that. They're gonna come along and they're gonna say, so you believe that once you're saved, you're always saved? And they're gonna look at you like you're kind of funny because you believe that way because most Christians believe you gotta earn it and live it and do right and do good and all that stuff or you can die and go to hell. But we believe it's just simply by God's grace that you're saved and you're kept by the power of God. That's what Peter said. And so we believe that. So you're a nut, you're crazy, you're a fanatic if you believe that God forgave you of all of your future sins the moment you got saved. You're the nut. But you need to learn over time how to answer those people when they ask you a question like that. And so, and it's gonna come up, you're gonna have that. And so all you can do is study how to handle their argument. And maybe for another time, you can answer it better. I'll tell you, I've been put in the corner a lot of times, a lot of times. I believe a certain way and people ask me a question and it'll stump me. at that time, and maybe my mind goes blank, and I don't know how to answer it, but you know what I'll do? Maybe the Mormon put me on the spot, or maybe the Jehovah's Witness put me on the spot, but I guarantee you, I'm gonna go back, and I'm gonna study that thing out, and the next time they knock on my door, and they ask that question, or they make that statement, I'm gonna put them on the spot. You see, you go back and you learn it so that then what you do is you burn them the next time. You make a fool out of them the next time. You know, fool me once, shame on, what is that? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame, something like that. Anyway, I got it mixed up. Anyhow, let me move on here. I'm gonna get all twisted here and then we'll be opening up a new King James Bible and preaching out of it. We better be careful. No, we would never do that. We wouldn't go that crazy. If we are, then you just vote me out and you can vote another preacher in for sure. But we're going to approach these arguments here tonight and these objections as questions. And sometimes they ask these questions because they think you're nuts. Like we said earlier, they think you're crazy. So they're asking these questions about the King James Bible. Sometimes they ask them because they've heard somebody else ask them, and they're trying to sound intelligent because they've heard some other preacher, and what they're doing is they're just parroting what other preachers have said. They really haven't studied it out thoroughly. They're just parroting what other preachers say, and they want to come off as intelligent. Sometimes they ask because they're genuinely concerned because they went online, they did the Google search, and they looked up King James Onlyism, and it come up with 99.999% of the issues are negative. It's all negative. You go online looking for your doctrine, you're in a mess anyway. But what they do is they'll attack the King James Only position, and it's probably 99% negative online. And all of that negative stuff comes up, so they ask this question, what about this? Or what about that? Or what about this? You know, they'll ask those different things. So it's up to you and I to take the subject seriously and to tastefully and tactfully and kindly address some of this stuff. And sometimes you have to serve it on the stage of kindness. I mean, because one of the things you're gonna find about Bible believers is a lot of Bible believers are arrogant. Because we got the Bible down, man, we know it. And we got our doctrine down and we've got all the verses and we know all the passages and things like that and we've got it down. And so the Bible says that knowledge puffeth up. And so what happens is somebody gets a little bit of Bible knowledge and they begin to get puffed up and they become arrogant. And they don't understand that they're coming off the wrong way to others. They don't understand that the vibes and the comments and the words they're saying are distasteful. And so it's not very kind. So when it comes to this subject, you can easily turn someone away who has been taught differently. And I also understand many times you can be kind about it, and you may not ever win them over. I understand that too. People have been taught a certain way all their life, and they're gonna say, my papa believed it that way, and I'll go to my grave believing it that way. And my preacher, he preached it this way, and that's the way I'll believe it till I go to the grave. But maybe Papaw wasn't right. Maybe the preacher wasn't right, you see? And so you may not ever win him over, but that's just, I'm just trying to help you a little tonight. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna talk about objections to the King James Bible. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna talk about the timing and the language of the King James Bible. The timing and the language of the King James Bible. I think you'll find this interesting. If you'll just stick with me, I'll give you some things here and then I'll let you go. They'll ask this, they'll say, where was the Word of God before 1611? Where was the word of God before 1611? I meant to bring my, I've got a copy of the 1611 in my office. It was the 400th, I think it's the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. And I got a copy of that several years ago. Well, it's been more several years ago now, hadn't it? 1611, so that'd be, oh, that'd be 2011, wouldn't it? My Oakville edumacation is about ready to fail me. But anyway, I've been married to an Athenian too long. That's what it is. She was from Athens, so. But they'll say, well, where was the word of God before 1611? We say, and we believe that God gave us a King James Bible, and we say that it was printed in 1611. So if the word of God was printed in 1611, where was it before 1611? Now, what they do is they ask that like it's gonna be some groundbreaking, earth-shaking question that you're biting your fingernails thinking, oh no, what am I gonna do? Where was the Word of God before 1611? And they say it that way, like they're gonna confuse you and shake your universe. But you have to keep in mind that there are a lot of things that go on from the time of Jesus Christ to 1611. from the time of Christ to 1611, there's a lot of things that happened. There are a lot of things all the way up to 1611 that people do not consider and people do not think about. It was not physically possible to have a universal language back in the time of Christ. I mean, how are you gonna print that many Bibles and that many copies back in the time of Christ? Isn't that a good question? I mean, now, I've not strayed from my question there, where was the Word of God before 1611? Just hang with me here because we can't just disannoy everything that's happened from the time of Christ all the way up to 1611. We have to take all of this into consideration that God was working through our history to bring about a Bible all in one book in the 66 books of the canon of scriptures. You see, before the 1611, the scriptures were, if you will, they were in different places. They were everywhere. Well, not everywhere, but they were in all kinds of places. Let me put it that way. And then God in 1611 brought them all together, 66 books in the 1611 King James Bible. So if you could print that many copies back then in that type of thing, how were you gonna distribute them throughout the rest of the world anyway? How would you gonna get, hey, if you could print a bunch of copies of the Bible back in Christ's day, how was you gonna get them all over the world anyhow? How was you gonna get them to everybody? It wasn't physically possible. Back then, they'd take those manuscripts and those texts, and they would hand copy them. And they would spend hours and hours and hours of copying God's word onto this papyrus paper, and they would pass it on. And it didn't last long, and it became brittle and destroyed. So people don't understand that there is no way to do it before 1611, and it was no way to do after what was done after 1611 that was done before, or no vice versa. There was no way to do what we've done since 1611 prior to that. You couldn't make all those copies. You couldn't do that. You have to take history and example, I mean, into account here. I mean, you think about this thing. In 1440, you got this thing called the printing press that came out. What was it called? Gutenberg printing press? I think that's what it was. In 1440, it came out. You see, so how could you make all these copies? Well, they had to handwrite them. See, we have to take history into account when it comes to this. And so even if you could print that many copies in Christ's day, what about the U.S. mail system? I mean, you got the US mail system that wasn't till 17, what was it? 1775. And it could take months to go from coast to coast. So you've got to take all of this into consideration. How about the Pony Express? It originated in 1860 and it ran between Missouri and California. Well, you know where you and I are at tonight? We're in West Virginia. We'd just be pressed out of luck, because if we relied on the Pony Express, it didn't come our way. That pony didn't have enough energy to make it this far, and so it couldn't make it this way. You'd just be out of luck. How about the UPS? The UPS originated by a couple of teenagers in 1907, and they went and borrowed $100 to get the business started, and then their employees went on foot and on bicycle in order to deliver the packages. I'd say that'd take you quite a while to get a copy of the King James Bible, wouldn't it? How about the FedEx? FedEx didn't come along to the 1990s to give UPS a little competition. Amazon is the only company right now that I know of that's trying, they may have already got it, but I heard at one time that they were trying to get a global one-day delivery system. So that's the only one that I know of that's trying to do that. So where was the Word of God from the time of Christ until 1611? That's a fair question, isn't it? And the answer to that is it was in all kinds of places. You know where you would have found it? You would have found it in Antioch, Syria. That's where you get the New Testament of your Bible anyway. Remember, the New Testament of your Bible was translated from the Greek New Testament, the Greek Textus Receptus. It came out of Antioch, Syria. Where was it at? It was in the Anglo-Saxon, where your English language comes from. Where was it at? It was in the Luther's German Bible. The text from which you get your King James Bible, it's been there all along. The word of God was in all kinds of places prior to 1611. You have to consider the historical account that there was no printing press until you get to the Gutenberg press. History must be taken into account. The King James Bible comes after and as a direct or an indirect result of the Protestant Reformation. Do you know that America is a result of the Protestant Reformation? If you study history, and I'm not gonna, you know, I don't wanna get into a history lesson or anything like that, but you see what happened was everything was suppressed before the Protestant Reformation. You take the Roman Catholic Church, and I mean, they persecuted Bible believers in those dark ages. When you read about those Crusades and stuff, you're reading about the Roman Catholic Church going around, and they're killing Muslims, and they're killing Bible believers. I don't know if they still teach that in school or not about the Crusades and all of that, but the Roman Catholic Church was the head of that thing. But one of the things that the Roman Catholic Church taught then was that no one could read the Bible except a Roman priest. They didn't want the common people to read the Bible and understand the Bible. I guess they'd find out what kind of whore that Roman Catholic Church really was. Amen, that is in your Bible. We read that and I'm not being disrespectful. Whore is a biblical word. Hell is a biblical word. Ass is a biblical word. I mean, there's a lot of words that we use that I think you ought to be careful before you get too offended about these Bible words. People get offended. You know, they'll sit down and watch the TV and it'll cuss at them for 30 minutes. And they'll come to church and think the preacher's cussing them and get mad and walk out. Strangest thing. But anyway, we're not gonna get into a history lesson, but one of the reasons there is a United States of America is because of the Protestant Reformation. Some of the ideas and the thoughts about religious liberties, it came from the Reformation. Actually, Martin Luther, he started the Reformation, and one of his favorite verses, I'm gonna turn back here, see if I can find it. I wrote it, I marked it in my Bible, Romans 1. It's verse 17. Martin Luther used this verse to start the Reformation. He says in Romans 1 17, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith. As it is written, the just shall live by faith. That verse right there is anti-Catholic. The Catholic believe you gotta keep the sacraments, do the Eucharist, take the host and all that stuff and you gotta confess your sins to the priest and all that stuff. They believe in all that stuff and you gotta eat this wafer and drink this wine or you're not saved. And so that's what they believe. But then Martin Luther, he come along and he began to believe the Bible, the just shall live by faith. It's by faith. It's by grace through faith that you're saved, right? So it comes along and he nails his thesis to the Catholic church's door and he walks away. But they suppress a lot of this stuff. America was in its founding stages around the time of the Protestant Reformation and it's this country that's taken the word of God around the world. I mean, if you subtract America from the equation, then how does the Word of God get around the world? Do you know that America supports more missionaries than any other country? How does the gospel get around the world? You see, God raised up America pretty quickly to get all of this done. Now, I realize she's in decline. I realize spiritually she's in a bad way. And I seen today where Joe Biden, he decided to back out. And so I don't know, that's probably a good thing as far as that goes. But anyhow, I saw that today. But you can see that America's in the position that it's in. Our leaders are ungodly. I mean, they claim to, you know, it made me so sickening to see, what was it? I saw some clips and stuff from the RNC, the Republican National Convention, and they all talked about God and how God's power was on Donald Trump. How do you know it was God's power that was on Donald Trump? You have any Bible to prove that? You say, well, it was a good thing, so it had to be of God. Well, don't you know the devil can manipulate things too? I mean, I think you gotta get in the Bible and be more spiritual than that to understand that I remember Daniel got down and he prayed how many days, 21 days before he got an answer? Do you remember that it was the Prince of Persia that had hindered him from getting the answer back to Daniel? Do you know who hindered that? The devil did. The devil can manipulate circumstances. I'll tell you one thing, I saw a clip where, what's his name, Franklin Graham? He got up there, and when he got done with his prayer, I liked it, because everybody else was praying in the name of God. Which God? There's this world, this country has so many gods now. We've opened our doors and let so many immigrants into this country and they've brought their gods with them. Which God are you talking about? I mean, anybody can talk about God, right? Oh, God's power, who, what, which God's power was on him? But anyway, Franklin Graham got up there and he prayed and at the end of the prayer, you know how he prayed? He prayed in the name of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. You see, you gotta narrow that thing down to Jesus Christ, not just God. It's easy to get up and say God, but say Jesus Christ. The Bible said that if they don't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, they're the Antichrist. Well, half that crowd wouldn't even confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Yeah, I think you gotta be careful about that stuff. Man, I believe in America. I think America is one of the greatest countries on the planet, but Christians, let's not be duped. Let's not be duped with these, what do you call them, these split-tongue people? You know what a politician is, don't you? It's a politic, right? It's made up of two words, poly and tic. Poly means many and tic means bloodsucker and that's exactly what they are. They're just a bunch of bloodsuckers. I don't care if they got a R or a D or an I next to the name, they're a bloodsucker is what they are. Amen, we're having fun tonight. We're gonna show some people's spirituality tonight, aren't we? Oh my, anyway, let me move on. I can get in trouble, start talking about politics. Now that's when people start saying, I don't think you oughta put politics in the pulpit. But if I was talking about your favorite guy that was running for office, you'd be like, amen, preacher, amen! That's the way people are, that's the way they are. Anyhow, I'm having fun tonight, can you tell? Well, you can't ignore the historical significance when it comes to the King James Bible. They say the King James Bible is written in Old English and that you can't understand it. That's false. The King James Bible is not written in Old English, it's written in Modern English. And people would know that if they would do a little study and it does, now it does use archaic words in the King James Bible that was purposely put there and used in translating the King James Bible. They came from the Bishop's Bible, they came from the Geneva's Bible. And they did that for a reason. You see what they say is like the New King James Bible is a King James Bible without the these and the thous. That's the argument that they make. They say, well, the new King James Bible is really just the King James Bible without the these and the thous. Well, first of all, that's not even true. And secondly, they didn't talk like that back in 1611. In 1611, when the King James Bible is translated, they didn't use thee and thou. What the King James translators did is they reached back, in 1611, they reached back 100 to 200 years prior to that, and they brought the these and the thous up into the 1611 King James Bible to make it more accurate. Think about it, let me give you an example. Jesus said to Nicodemus, ye must be born again. Now you and I would say you must be born again, right? But what's more accurate, ye or you? Because if Jesus said to Nicodemus, you must be born again, then the only one that needs to be born again is Nicodemus. But because he said ye, that's plural, now everybody's gotta be born again. So the King James translators reached back prior to 1611's language, and they brought some of these these and thous and yees and all of that, and they brought it into and made it into the modern English that we're reading here even tonight. This is modern English. And they brought it in there so that it's more accurate. So the translators purposely added it. They didn't say in 1611, thou art my brother, I thank thee for thy tender love and thy kindness. They didn't talk that way in 1611. But that's the way the translators translated the Bible to make it more accurately. They used it to accurately reflect the tenses of the Hebrew and the Greek verbs. And by the way, the universal language of the world isn't Greek and it isn't Hebrew. What is it? It's English. Don't you know that in 1611, God had the foreknowledge to see that the universal language or the industrialized language of the world would eventually become English. So God already had this thing in plan in works to be able to translate a Bible into English for English speaking people. Do you know that if your first language is not English, no matter where you're at on the globe, then generally it's gonna be your second or your third language, why? Because it's the industrialized language of the world. So it's very important. You've got to consider the historical aspect of this thing when you're considering the King James Bible. So where was the word of God? Well, it was in all kinds of places up until 1611, and then God brought them all together and put them into one book. Otherwise, the book of Isaiah was over here and the book of Ezekiel was over here, but then God took all these books and he put them together for you and I to have into one book. So God done that for you and me. Now they'll ask, where is the word of God in other languages? See, they ask it like they're gonna stump you. Where was the Word of God in other languages? And we say that God's Word is in the English language, well, what about all the other languages? And they'll ask, why did God pick only English? Now, I've already explained why, because it's the industrialized language of the world, and it will be, I guess, until Jesus comes back. But now, a rebuttal to that question of why did God pick only English would be, well, why did God only pick Greek? Why did God pick only Hebrew? You see, I mean, you could rebut this stuff as well, you see. And so God is not obligated to put a Bible in every language on the planet. Now, I sinned earlier, and I Googled something. I don't suggest you Google, but how else am I gonna get the answer? I couldn't go to an encyclopedia and get it, because it wouldn't be current. But I looked it up, and I Googled how many spoken languages are in the world today, and Google said there was 7,164 languages. That's a lot of languages, isn't it? Can you imagine God trying to put a Bible into every language like that? It just, it's not gonna happen. God's not obligated to put a Bible into 7,164 languages. He's not obligated. Now, another argument is this. If we say that we have a King James 1611, that is an error. We don't have one. Now, that's what they'll say. They'll say that you say that this is a 1611 and they'll argue and say, this isn't a 1611. I argue that this is a 1611. And that's why I say that. You say, well, no, because if you ever read a 1611, you'll know there's differences. Okay, I'll give you that one, there's differences, but I'm gonna explain to you those differences there. They say that you don't have one, and you might even ask if you've ever seen one. You ever seen a 16, how many of you have seen a 1611 or read a 1611? Okay, that's about one hand, two hands, something like that. So very few people have. I've got one in my office. I wished I'd have brought it out here and you could see it and you could look at it for yourself after service. But if you don't know what they're talking about, you might get confused because they just might hand you a 1611 and say, read it. And when you open it, you won't be able to read it. Well, you'll be able to read it, but a lot of it, some of it won't be able to make sense to you. So I have that 1611 in my office there, but not all 1611s are exactly alike either. If you have, say, 100 1611s, they may not all read exactly the same. The words are the same, but there's spelling errors, there's printing typos, and the fact that there was no standardized spelling in 1611 means that all 1611s are not exactly the same. Back then, they had a lot of printing problems. And so there was some printing errors and things like that. Today, what I can do is I can go to my computer and I can hit spell check, and you know what Microsoft Word will do? It'll fix it for me, right? It'll put that little red line underneath it to let me know something's not right with that word or that phrase, and I can click on it and it'll give me the option to change it and fix it. I mean, that's what Spellchecker can do. They didn't have Spellchecker in 1611. So there was some typos and things like that. So back then they had to take this thing and set each word to print it, and that would take hours and hours and hours. Now, if you look at my 1611 that I have in my office, and you look at the other Bible that I've got here on the pulpit, you'll see that there's obvious differences. You'll see that there's obvious differences. The 1611 is typed in Gothic, but my Bible here is typed in Roman type. Now you can read Roman type a lot easier than you can Gothic, but the 1611 was printed in Gothic. And there's also a lot of words that are spelled differently in my 1611 than in the Bible that I have right here. There's different spellings. So let me give an example. I wrote some of them down. In 1611, the letter S would look like the letter F. So what you would have is you'd have like Psalm, right, or you'd have Psalms. And it wouldn't be spelled like P-S-A-L-M, it would be spelled P-F-A-L-M. So they use different letters for other letters. The word set, S-E-T would appear F-E-T, but it would be the word set. But you and I'd look at it and we'd say it'd say fet. But fed is actually set in the 1611. In the 1611, you've got the letter V, and that would be like the letter U. The word love, L-O-V-E, in the 1611 would be spelled L-O-U-E. See that? So it's spelling corrections is what it is. That's the differences. They didn't change any of the words. They didn't remove the word and say, well, I believe a better word would be this. They didn't do that. But what they did is they changed the spelling. A capital J would look like an I. It'd look like a capital I. So Jesus in the 1611 would be I-E-S-U-S or it would be I-E-F-U-F. Now, if I was to get out my whiteboard and I was to write those two words up here, if I was to write I-E-F-U-F, you wouldn't have a clue what that was. But it's Jesus in the 1611. But it's not spelled the same way in the Bible that you hold in your lap right now. So they'll argue and ask you if you believe the 1611 and you say you do, then they'll pull out a 1611 and they'll say, here, read it. Thank you, buddy. So they went to my office and they got it. Okay, good deal. I mean, you can see it's written in goth and, or gothic, I'm sorry. And not goth, gothic. And then, you know, like Moses, M-O-F-E-S. I just opened it up. I mean, you can find this, there's thousands and thousands of them in here. And so if you want to take a look at that after service, you sure can. I'd be glad to let you look at that. And so, So what they might would do is they'd say, oh, you believe in the 1611, are you okay? And then the hand you want to say, well, here, read it. And then you'll be stumped. You'll be like, I can't understand it. And reason why is because there was no standardized spelling back then. And then they had typos and errors and things like that. And there you are just scratching your head with no idea what it is. And you've got to understand that there was a lot of changes between 1611 even till now. There was a lot of changes from 1611 until now. And so they argue that the King James Bible has undergone many revisions. The King James Bible since 1611 has gone through four revisions. So what they do is they'll come along and they'll say, well, the new King James Bible of 1982, and they'll say that we're just adding to those revisions. So in other words, you've got the 1611, it goes through four revisions, and now that fourth revision is what I'm holding here in my hand. And then they come along and they say, well, we've got the new King James Bible, and we're just adding to the revisions that the King James Bibles went through. But that's not true. Because the revisions that we're talking about is typos and spelling and things like that. The revision that they're talking about is changing words. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God, right? So they changed God's word. We're not talking about changing God's word, we're talking about changing the spelling. We're talking about spelling revisions where the word me, M-E, was spelled M-E-E in the 1611. We're talking about the latest edition of 1769. That's the one you've got in your lap right now. It's spelled M-E. It's not spelled with two E's, it's spelled with one E. But in the 1611, it was spelled with two E's. You see, so they just made some revisions as they went along. The word dark, D-A-R-K, would have had an E on the end of it in the 1611. It would have been spelled D-A-R-K-E. That's how they would have spelled it. So they made just some of these changes as far as the spelling goes. The word poor, P-O-O-R, would have an E on the end of it. The word fear, F-E-A-R, would have an E on the end of it in the 1611. There's thousands of those kinds of changes, and they come up to you and they'll say, well, your Bible doesn't match the 1611 in thousands of places, and those are some of the places we're talking about. The word ran, the word ran wasn't spelled R-A-N, it was spelled R-A-N-N-E in the 1611. The word evil, we spell it E-V-I-L, but in the 1611, it's spelled E-U-I-L-L. E-U-I-L-L. See, that's a difference. You wouldn't know what that word is. You might could read the context of the passage and you might get it, but at first glance, you wouldn't understand what that is. The word stars in the 1611 is spelled F-T-A-R-R-E-S. See that? And so you've got a difference between the Bible that you have versus the 1611. So between 1611 and now, the King James Bible has undergone four revisions that made thousands of changes like the ones I'm giving you right now with spelling. They didn't change the words, they just changed the spelling. All they're doing is using these differences to try and depreciate the authority of the King James Bible by referring to these different revisions. They say, you see, your Bible has been revised, and they've changed all these words, and you're criticizing these new Bibles for changing words, and your King James Bible, you've been changing, so don't say that you have a 1611. That's what they'll say. Don't say that you've got a 1611. That's what they'll tell you. But no, I got a 1611. The words wasn't changed. You could take this and compare it to this, and the words didn't change, but the spelling did. So it's a 1611, it's just been revised four times because of typos and spelling and things like that. Am I making sense tonight? I'm trying to drive the point home over and over again, but I hope I'm making sense. We have almost the exact same book as the 1611, except for the spelling changes. And that is not the same as what the newer versions do, but that's what they'll try to argue. The newer versions will try to say, well, the King James Bible was revised four times, but the revisions we're talking about is spelling and typos. I wanna drive that home. That's an important point because that's when it'll get thrown onto you quite a bit. Now revisions were necessary because of the printing conditions. Now let me give you an example. How many of you have ever heard of the Wicked Bible? Never heard of the Wicked Bible? In 1630 to 1762, the demands for a Bible was so great that the printers tried to keep up with the customers and they got in a hurry. And what has become known as the Wicked Bible in 1638, listen to this, in Exodus 20 in verse number four, the guy left out the word not. Do you know what that says? Thou shalt not commit adultery. But he left out the word not, thou shalt commit adultery. See that? And it became known as the wicked Bible. And then, I mean, how many of you have heard of the unrighteous Bible? In 1653, they had what is known as the unrighteous Bible, because in 1 Corinthians chapter six and verse number nine, it says, know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God. Well, you know what that is. That's typos, what that is. It's just a printing error. But those things, when it comes to the King James Bible of 1611, that's what the King James Bible undergone was four revisions to correct those typos. So these things happen and printing errors happen, but the Word of God, you gotta understand, it transcends the page. The Word of God transcends the page. And so you've got the Word of God, even though it's got spelling errors and things like that. While we believe the Word of God is perfect, we don't believe that all of the printing was perfect. And God uses man as a tool or as an instrument to be able to accomplish his work. Because man is involved, there's obviously gonna be some printing problems that go along with that. And so you have to understand that when you're looking at this thing as a whole. In the 1617 edition of the King James Bible, instead of saying like our current Bible does, seek God, it says seek good, G-O-O-D. And obviously that's a big difference, I'm sure you'd agree with me, but when you begin to do the research on that, you find that back then, they spelled words differently. Again, there was no standardized spelling back then in 1611, so you got around the 1500s there in those words. You got the word good could be spelled G-O-O-D. It could have been spelled G-U-O-D. It could have been spelled like us hillbillies would spell it, G-U-D, good, G-U-D. It was spelled G-O-E-D, and then obviously, again, G-O-O-D, and then it could also be spelled G-O-D. as God. See that? You have to understand that. And so those changes that they made wasn't changes to the words, it was changes made to the spelling. Do you know that if you were to take your Bible software and you were to do a word search on the word music, M-U-S-I-C, do you know that you wouldn't find it in your King James Bible? It is found that many times, a big old goose egg, zero times the word music, M-U-S-I-C, is not found in your Bible. But do you know what is found 16 times in there? M-U-S-I-C-K, music. It's the same word, just different spelling. Look it up sometime. In your King James Bible, the word music, spell it M-U-S-I-C-K, right? M-U-S-I-C-K. And you'll see what I'm talking about. So the different editions mostly have to do with the spelling corrections. Now, if you study grammar of the Bible, I'm about ready to come to a close. If you study grammar of the Bible, you're gonna find Peter wrote 1 and 2 Peter. And grammar is horrible in 1 and 2. It would be better than my grammar for sure, but Peter had bad grammar if you read after Peter. But do you know that what they'll do is they'll come along and they'll say, well, how could it have bad grammar if God inspired the book? It shouldn't have bad grammar. But again, you got to understand that God used man as an instrument to write the Bible. So while the grammar might not be perfect, the words are perfect. Do you know that Luke was a learned man? Paul was an educated man. But Peter, you know what Peter was? Peter was just a fisherman. He was just a common man. He didn't have a lot of education. And so his grammar wouldn't be that great. They change words, remove words, such as in Colossians 1.14, through his blood. Completely remove it. It's gone. They omit words. They omit entire verses in newer versions. And if you have an NIV, they omit something like 17 verses. I think it's in Acts chapter 8. And about verse 36, 37, the verse is just completely gone, and they make it a footnote in the bottom. That's the NIV. They just remove it with no explanation. Just gone right out of your Bible. I mean, isn't that a strange thing that somebody would want to take part of your Bible away? Well, I wouldn't trust any Bible that would take away out of God's Word. I want a complete Bible, don't you? I'll tell you what we'll do. That's arguments to the King James Bible. I hope that I've given you a better understanding about these things and some of these things that we've talked about because eventually, as you go along, you're going to run across people that don't believe the King James Bible is the only word of God. But they think that it's okay to use other versions and things like that because one fellow said, well, you know, I don't mind telling you that I, you know, I get these other versions out and I don't mind telling you that I get a biscuit every now and then. Well, why would you want to go through the garbage can to get a biscuit when you can take a King James Bible and get steak out of it? I don't know. I just happen to believe we got a perfect Bible. I believe we got a perfect God, a perfect Holy Spirit, and we got perfect salvation, and we've got a perfect Bible, and we got a God that can preserve His Word. If God can preserve my soul, He can preserve His Word. So that's not a hard thing to understand as far as I'm concerned. So that's some arguments to the King James Bible, okay?