All right, the conference tapes and videos and things will be available, and I failed to mention that to you. Once they're all finished, we'll get them to you if you'd like to get them. I would encourage you, if you're a pastor, to get them, and I think they'd be a help to you. You say, well, I'm pretty much up on the issue. Well, and that's good. I just want you to know, Knight, I am not a TR man. I just want you to know that position, those are acronyms, they're synonyms for totally ridiculous. And if that's your position, I just want you to know I'm not a scholar, but I can make you look like a fool in five minutes in front of your congregation if that's your position. You better find something a little more solid than a TR or one of the 20 editions of the TR to put your faith in. I'm a King James Bible believer. I believe every word in it is God's inspired, preserved, perfect, without error. And that's what I believe. And I've never accomplished much in the ministry, but let me just say this. Here's a church I've been pastor of for over 32 years now. They have never once heard me correct one word of this book with one Greek word And they won't unless I get Alzheimer's and get delusional. But then they'll know it's time to put me out to pasture. I've got it right there. There it is. And I'm so thankful. So thankful for men like these that have been here this week. They didn't give me that faith. I had that faith from just a little fellow. But they substantiated and submitted that faith so that when the onslaught came, it didn't really rattle us. Amen? Brother Carter has been a good friend. A lot of the snowbirds travel that way. And I was privileged to be down there just a few weeks ago. And the older I get, the more snowbirdy I become. Because it was nice. And Brother Carter has consented to be here. He has taken some hits for the King James Bible, as all of these speakers have this week. And I'm honored that he's here to speak to us tonight. Brother Carter, you come. I was preaching in, and I was technologically retarded, and I was not lying. I'm on now. Take room. All right. You do with it what you want to. I told Brother Sal, maybe if I stayed with this, I'd preach shorter, but he made me take it anyway, so you blame him for whatever happens. Amen? It's great for this church to do what they're doing in this King James Conference. I'm so thrilled over it. Praise the Lord. Am I still on? Okay. Praise the Lord for all the hospitality and all you preachers that have come and everybody. I feel at home in this crowd. Amen. Thank God for people that believe they have God's Word and have access to it and have it in their hand. Amen. We certainly appreciate the opportunity to be here. I didn't get in on it yesterday, but most of it this morning, and it was a real blessing. And I agree with Brother Rick, it was almost head-split to try to keep up and say, I'm going to try to remember that, you know. The truth is that I'm not going to bother you that much tonight. I try to put the hay down where the, well, I won't call you what I could say, Where you can reach it anyway, amen? All right. I want you to open your Bibles tonight to the book of Jeremiah to start with, Jeremiah chapter 32. We'll read a few verses and assume you know a little bit about the story. I want to talk to you a little bit tonight, trapped, trapped by contradiction. Most of the time, folks think they've found a contradiction in the King James Bible that's just a lack of understanding. Everybody likes to understand things. I understand that Nancy Pelosi, the ex-House Speaker in Washington, has been trying to figure out something. You know, she thought they ought to put out a postage stamp commemorating the fact she had been the Speaker. Thank God she's not now, but anyway. Anyway, they put the stamp out and it had a nice picture of her on the front. Everything was proper. But the complaints was coming in. She wanted to understand why all the complaints that it won't stick to the envelopes. So she wanted an investigation so she could understand. They investigated. They found out that the stamp was all right, right material. Even the stickum on it was okay. But people were spitting on the wrong side. It's best to understand things, right? Look in here in Jeremiah chapter 32. I'm going to read just a few verses to start with here. It says, The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, for then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem. And Jeremiah the prophet was shut up, and the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house. Now here's why he was shut up. For Zebedekiah, king of Judah, had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it. And Zebedekiah, the king of Judah, shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans. but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes." I'm going to stop there now and ask you to go to the book of Ezekiel. Ezekiel chapter 12, and I want you to look at about verse 13. I'm going to give you time to turn. I don't have mine marked either. If you get there before me, wait on me. Amen? Ezekiel chapter 12. We'll pick it up in verse 13. Let me say, do you understand that Jeremiah and Ezekiel pastored in the same city? They were contemporaries. Do you understand here that they also preached against the politics of the king? You ever hear somebody say, leave the politics alone? Yeah, that's what the devil wants you to do. Better watch out for it. We ought to stand up for righteousness, folks. You ought not leave the Christianity at home when you go to the voting booth, amen? But these preachers meddled with the business. They were warning that God's judgment was coming. So as I look here, I find Ezekiel preaching in the same city, makes this prediction. He says, My neck also will I spread upon him, talking about the king, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him into Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans, Yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. Now let's get the message here, the contradiction. Jeremiah said, Nebuchadnezzar's coming, the Chaldeans are going to take you and you're going to see the king, you're going to see Nebuchadnezzar eye to eye. And Ezekiel here says, yet shall he not see it. Zebedekiah picked up on a contradiction. Jeremiah is saying, you're going to see the king of Babylon eye to eye. Ezekiel says you're going to Babylon but you'll not see it. Contradiction. It trapped the old king because he went ahead and done what he wanted to do. He'd found a flaw. He'd found a contradiction. But let's see how it turned out. Go to Jeremiah chapter 39. Pick it up, we're in chapter 39 of Jeremiah and we see the conclusion of the thing. In chapter 39, Nebuchadnezzar comes, like was predicted. His soldiers are coming in. Zedekiah the king sees it. And you pick it up in verse 4, and it says, And it came to pass that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled and went forth out of the city by the night, by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate between two walls. And he went out the way of the plain. across the street now. But the Chaldeans army pursued after them and overtook Zebedee in the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar, to the king now, of Babylon, but wait a minute, to Riblah, a little city, not Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him. Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Rambla before his eyes. Also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. This is the last picture that Zedekiah saw, his sons being slain. Watch it in verse 7. Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with chains to carry him where? To Babylon. Hey folks, both prophets was right. He did see Nebuchadnezzar eye to eye, but he did go to Babylon where he didn't see it. Watch out when you think you found a contradiction in the Word of God. You need to understand that's a whole other problem today. A little Bible study sure helps out. And the wonderful truth is that we can look in the Word of God today and know we have a supernatural book that God has given to us, preserved, and we have it just like He wanted us to have it. Isn't that wonderful? You know, this book is different. You won't find any other book that carries the power this one carries. In the old days, when we'd fly around on some of these airplanes, they're pretty crowded now. But I remember in the old days, a lot of times, when I'd get on a plane, and there'd be a lot of extra seats. And if you wanted to be a little bit selfish and you wanted two seats to relax in, you just took your Bible out and laid it right there. Something about it, that'd be the last seat on the plane, that'd take. You ever notice that? Oh yeah, this book's different. I mean, it has the fear of God about it. My son's sitting over here tonight, but I think he'll remember this. Probably when he was about, I don't know, five years old, six. It was summertime and we were about to start our youth camp. Generally on Sunday night, I would be the last person leaving the church, pretty close to it. He'd hang around instead of riding home with mother. And by the way, we did have two cars. That's why we've been married 53 years. I gave you some good marriage counseling. Two cars, two bathrooms. Most preachers won't tell you that, but that's a big help. That's spiritual help, amen? But anyway, it was youth camp time. Our camp was crude, still crude, but it was cruder then. And at that particular time, I had a CB radio nut in my church. That's before cell phones. We've got all kind of nuts now, but anyway. He believed everybody ought to have a CB radio. I didn't. and didn't know much about him. He told me, he said, now, I know we don't have a telephone out at camp this week. He said, preacher, I'm going to put a radio in your secretary's office, I'm going to put one in your car, if she can get you out at camp. I wanted to say, you jerk, I don't want to be got. You can't say that to all church members. I said, don't drill no holes in my car. He said, no, all you have to do is just get in there and turn it on and anyway, When I come out of church that night and got in the car, my son was with me, and he climbed up on the seat, big old black Ford, when they made big old black Fords, and you had that folding thing down thing, and he'd sit up there, but as soon as he got in, he saw that CB radio in there. And he said, what's that, Daddy? I said, well, that's a radio we're going to use it at camp this week. He said, turn it on, Daddy, turn it on. I said, no, that's for camp. Turn it on, Daddy." So, like a good daddy, I obeyed. The man had told me, all you have to do is switch it on. You don't have to set nothing. I switched it on and instantly I heard these voices coming over that CB radio. Now, at that time in Haines City, we had one of the biggest church camps, church, I'm sorry, truck stops in the state, commercial truck stop. Highway 27, north and south. And trucks come from Miami and come from up north, and that's where they'd meet lots of times. And as soon as I turned that radio on, I heard these truckers talking. And it was a trucker coming from the south. One was coming from the north. They were going to run to the truck stop with a bunch of females in a car. And right in front of God and everybody, they were haggling price and talk. Now preachers don't get mad, but we do get a bad case of righteous indignation. And as I heard that in front of my son and everybody else, I come close to getting mad. And I thought that just ought not be. Without even giving it a second thought, I reached over and picked up the microphone. The man told me, if you want to be heard, you mash the button. He didn't tell me you're supposed to say breaker. I didn't know that. So I just mashed the button. And in the biggest voice I could muster with that microphone, I put it up close to my mouth, and I quoted Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 4, and I said, marriage is honorable in all, in the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge. And I put it back. I drove seven miles from the church home. Not a voice. Not a voice. Once in a while, I knew somebody pushed the button because I'd hear a diesel running. Not a voice. As I was pulling into my driveway, I heard one trucker say this, who in the world do you reckon that was? The other trucker said, I don't know, but I'm at the truck stop and the girls are gone. Hey, try that with any other book. Try that with any other book. That's got the power of God on it. It's God's Word. I mean, it gets the job done, brother. And I want to say, time would not allow to say so many other things about it in that way. But somehow or another, I know as a kid, I knew nothing about the Bible, wasn't saved in my race car days until I was in my early 20s, but Grandma had an old King James Bible and she'd read it at me as I started out on a wild night. And it bothered me, and I'd be on the racetrack, and I'd say, why does Grandma's book bother me? I read Shakespeare when I was in school. It didn't bother me, bored the fire out of me. But Grandma's Bible bothered me. There's something inside of us that tells us the Word of God. Hey, by the way, while you were listening to a preacher preach, do you know where you're hearing the Word of God or not? I've been in a few churches, vacation or something, Heard a man get up and read, and I want to tell you what, the power's not there, brother. Something inside says that's not it. That's not it. You know, this book warns us about tampering with it. Won't turn to it, but three times, kind of early in the beginning, Deuteronomy chapter 4, Proverbs chapter 30, and of course, Revelation 22, 18, all tell you not to add and take from mess with the Word of God. I'll say to you this, there's a whole lot of folks going to find out in the judgment seat God didn't need their help to correct His Word. They think so, but I don't believe that. You look at that very last chapter of the book of Revelation, and you look over there in verse 18 where it says, I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues. that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life. You know, they can't even get through these two verses before they change them. Book of life, take his part out of the book of life. Do you know that most of the new versions change that from book of life to the tree of life? There's a big difference. There's a big difference. There certainly is a big difference. I want to say to you, this King James Bible, you say, well, if you go back to the original language, you get this blessing and that. I think you can sometimes, but not in contradiction to what it says in English. You take that last verse in the book of Revelation, look at it with me just a moment, verse 21. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. If you count the English letters in your King James Bible, you'll have 44 English letters. And you know where you'll find Christ? In the midst. In the middle. If you read Revelation chapter 1, verse 13, when John looks and he sees the golden candlesticks, who does he see in the midst? The Lord Jesus Christ. If you go back to Genesis chapter 1 and verse 1 and count the letters in English in Genesis 1 and verse 1, guess what? You got 44 letters. Now, you say, what a coincidence. I love the coincidences. As I looked in Genesis 1, 1, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, 44 letters, and guess where the word God appears? In the middle. Who is God? Who is Christ? They're both up in the middle. You say, oh, what a coincidence, what a blessing. This is a supernatural book, folks. It tells you who the Lord Jesus Christ is, amen? And as we think about it a little bit, 400 years of the anniversary of the King James Bible, what a wonderful thing. And what bothers me today, I expected the liberals to attack the Word of God. We've always had that fight. Brother Rick mentioned whatever it was a while ago, Unitarian Church. Well, you know, woman pastors and so forth. Anyway, I have a little problem with that. But even the independent Baptists now are trying to be so intellectual until they improve on the Word of God. I said the other day, somebody said, I want an educated clergy. I don't even like the word clergy. Help yourself. When I pull up behind you and you've got a bumper sticker on your bumper that says clergy, I may run over you. I like the word preacher, bless God. I like the word man of God, amen. I like to get down where we can understand it, amen. No, we don't need an educated clergy, we need a faithful clergy. We need a faithful bunch of preachers that believe they've got the Word of God and are willing to use it, amen. Now, you know, I know there's a little stigma you say, you King James only. We had our liberal newspaper in our county the other day. They did a thing because it was the 400th anniversary of the King James. Isn't it amazing they can't get away from it? They can't let it alone. And, of course, there was an attack, but not as bad as I was really expecting, but they put the stigma on it that there is a bunch of folks that won't use anything else. Like we're just kind of ignorant, you know. We haven't grown up into the intellectualism that we ought to be into, that sort of thing. And all this business, well, what bothers me is the crowd that are the King James butts. Did you get what I said? I'm King James butt. I feel like kicking some butts. Amen. Just kick them on out, brother, if they don't believe the Word of God. You say, I don't like that. It may get worse. You better buckle your belt. Cast doubt on the Word of God. You got this thing today, you know, well, there's a difference in inspiration and preservation. Well, duh. We understand. But we also understand one of us is no good without the other. Don't try to separate inspiration from preservation. Somebody says, well, you're talking about double inspiration. No, I'm not. I'm talking about what was inspired is still inspired. And if what was inspired is preserved, then it's still what was inspired preserved. The jar of peaches looked good. I hadn't tried them yet, but looked good. You know what those were on the tree when they were picked? They were peaches. You know what they were when they were prepared to be preserved? They were peaches. You know what they are now? They're still peaches. They're still peaches. How come if we don't understand it with peaches, we can't understand that with the Word of God? Amen? Amazing to me. Somebody wants to be educated and they can't understand that? I can get that. Yeah, God promised to preserve His Word. And if He did, He preserved what He'd already inspired. No, you say, well, double inspiration. No, no, no, that's a smokescreen to try to find fault. The whole thing is, if this book, if a man believed this book was already perfect, if it's not broke, why fix it? Huh? Yet that's what we have even happening in some circles that fools us today that we wouldn't believe. But you know, The Bible says, II Timothy 316, all Scripture is given by inspiration of God. And I believe, my friend, it means exactly that, all Scripture. I'm talking about not only the original manuscripts, which they don't have, and they hate to admit they don't have, but all Scripture is, not was. There's a difference between the two. Don't let somebody that says, well, I know the Greeks. And the Greek says was. I don't believe that for a minute. And I can play with the words with you on it. I believe it is inspired, is the very inspired Word of God. Somebody says, well, what is inspiration? Well, that is what God gave. Look with me. Go over to John chapter 6, if you would. And the Bible's pretty plain on what it means by that. In John chapter 6, pick it up in verse 63. It is the spirit that quickens. That means alive. By the way, wouldn't we preachers be pretty dumb trying to preach to dead men with a dead book and expecting to get them to come to life? You need a live book if you're going to impart life, amen? And that's what we hold when we hold this Bible. It is the Spirit that quickeneth. The flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. You know, if you look up the 1828 Webster dictionary, that's the best one to use. It'll tell you what inspiration is. I'm surprised some folks hadn't looked it up in there. Webster 1828, the infusion of ideas into the mind by the Holy Spirit, then it gives a reference. Guess what? King James Bible. II Timothy 316, all scriptures given by inspiration of God. Well, Webster knew that, 1828. And he uses the book to back up what he defined inspiration as being. My, my, my. You know, Job had something to say about it. I won't go to it over there now. But you notice that if you go through the book of Jeremiah, there was a king there that also didn't like what Jeremiah had to say on chapter 36. I won't turn to it. But he took his penknife out and he cut the pages, didn't he? I mean, you know, well, I don't like that. Well, he was probably one of the earliest modern Bible perverters. Just whack it out and throw it in the fireplace. That's still what they're doing today. Oh, he got in trouble, too. You read the rest of the story on him. Loseb the Chi thought he had a way out. One preacher says this, another one says this. I got a contradiction, but it trapped him. It trapped him and it cost him his life and the life of his sons and the blindness of his eyes, the whole thing. I remind you, there's two streams of manuscripts coming up and these preachers done such a good job on it this morning, I'm not going to get into that. But I want to say, and one of them mentioned this this morning, one of the great things that God did, and it just blows the minds of the intellectuals, God used the common man to preserve His Word. The priesthood of believers. You know, when you approach this Bible, if you approach it in faith, when you don't understand it, you still believe it, God will give you more light on that. But when you approach it in unbelief, The devil will let you set up a trap and you'll get deeper in the mud and deeper in the mud. And then one day, like Ozebdekiah, the rug will be pulled out from under you. No, go ahead. You say, well, I can't understand that. Then go ahead and pray and ask for guidance and ask for wisdom and stick with it and see what God does for you. He'll bring that thing around. Amen. You know, there's two streams of the Bible coming up through the old ages. And the devil's been fighting. This is not a new fight. We know it started in the Garden of Eden. We know the devil's been after the Word of God the whole time. But God used his priesthood of believers. And God's good about setting traps for unbelievers. Look with me in the little book of Amos. Amos chapter 5. I know that's a little hard to turn to real quick, so just listen. for the sake of time, and I'll go ahead with it. In Amos chapter 5, now the Bible's not a science book, but where it touches on science, it's accurate. It's correct. As I look over here in Amos chapter 5, I'm reading verse 8. Seek him that maketh the seven stars, count them, seven stars, and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning. and maketh the day dark with night, that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth. The Lord is his name." Now, get the picture. Here is something in the heavenlies. Here is something we astronomers know about. And he says over here that there's seven stars in Orion. But science said for so long they could only find six. Only find six. So some of the new perverted Bibles wrote 6 instead of 7. But here just not so long ago, just a few short years ago, guess what? They found the 7th one. So how could the King James Bible have 7? Hey, the God that put the stars up there gave us His Word. Amen? You better stick with the Bible. Stick with the Bible. Amen? God sets traps for folks. Look at I Corinthians chapter 7. And again, I want you to find it, women. Chapter 7, I Corinthians 7, not going to get into the marriage and divorce thing except to show you an example here. I Corinthians 7, verse 13, And the woman which hath one husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, watch the next statement, let her not leave him. But your modern perversion says, let her not divorce him. They translate the word leave here to divorce. But when you apply that in the rest of the Bible, if you translate it that way, you get in trouble. God sets a trap. For instance, if you went over to Matthew chapter 4, when Jesus is facing the temptation and the wilderness by the devil, it tells you the devil finally, after the Lord quoted the word at him and defeated him, it finally tells us the devil left Jesus. But if you use that translation, he divorced Jesus. Pretty silly, huh? Pretty silly. You follow that word right on through that the modern ones want to use. You know, when Simon and Andrew left their nets and their father, they divorced their nets. That don't make sense, does it? See, when you take a word like that, how about the woman over in John chapter 4 when she left her water pots? She divorced him. Yeah, we can jiggle at that, but that's how stupid they get. And God said, all right. See, this word's tied together like a chain. How many links in a chain do you have to break before it's broke? Just one. You can call us and do a little carpenter work. Did you ever start with a foundation and it was just a little bit out? Just not perfectly square? And the more you built the house, you thought, oh, you know, I can... No, wait a minute, it shows up later. Shows up all the way through the structure, don't it? So it does when you tamper with the Word of God. It continues to show up. It continues to trap you. Go over to Mark chapter 1. I think God has a sense of humor about this stuff. Mark chapter 1. And by the way, some of these things I'm showing you, you can judge them in all kinds of different versions. Here's one you can judge in several ways. Mark chapter 1 verse 2, As it is written in the prophets, with an S on it, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. Now if you get the NIV, and I don't know what they've done with the new versions of it, you'd think they'd smarten up enough to correct some of these things. But what happens is everywhere they correct, they run into it somewhere else. Chapter 1, verse 2, written in the prophets, King James. But you get the NIV over there and it says, written in Isaiah the prophet. Huh? But you know what's the problem with that? The quote's not from Isaiah. The quote's from Malachi. Hasn't God got a sense of humor? Yeah? Now get the picture. Here's all these doctors with degrees. You know, they could be a thermometer. They're sitting around the tables, and they're passing judgment on the Word of God. And make a blunder like that. A third grader can point that blunder out to them. Amen? Don't tamper with the Word of God. God's got traps set in it. Got traps set. No, I could go on several places. Don't ever let anybody jump on Acts chapter 12 and tell you that the word Easter ought to be Passover. Common sense would tell you this. The 47 translators that finished the King James, learned men, speak many languages. Manuscripts and other English Bibles in front of them, they had access to them. Would all 47 of them make such a mistake to put the word Easter in instead of Passover? Or the Greek word, you can translate it, definitely, Passover. But the context means so much, folks. What is the context? Well, over there in Acts chapter 12, over here, you know, he put Peter in jail. He was going to kill him after Easter. Well, wait a minute. Easter. was Herod's pagan Easter, Babylonian Easter. And if you read back in Leviticus, Passover and Easter, as even the pagans celebrated, and even today, still close, but it says, then was the days of unleavened bread. And there were seven days of the unleavened bread and seven days separated Passover and Herod's Easter. Check it out. 47 translators didn't all of a sudden go to sleep. They read their Bible enough to know what the context was. Herod's pagan Easter, that's what was involved. It'd be wrong to translate the word there, Passover. You'd mess up the context. Oh, it amazes me how the crowd, all of a sudden these poor ignorant translators just made the same mistake all of at the same time. Oh, no. They knew enough Bible to get it right. You can recognize the critical text. If you look, I showed you Mark chapter 1, verse 2. I've preached before and pointed that out and had some folks come to me after the service with another version, all disturbed. I say, hey, you want the truth? You just got it. I love my Spanish brother, but the 1960 edition of the Spanish Bible, check it out. It reads just like the RSV reads right here. It reads just like NIV reads here. It's wrong. I'll tell you something else. Anytime you get a Bible using the word Hades, you better watch it. Try and take the fire out of hell. Any other language, whether it be French, Spanish, name any other language, and if you see the word Hades jumping out, because you see that's a transliterated word. It's not a translated word. If the word is properly translated, it'll say hell. But if it's transliterated, that's why you can recognize the word Hades. If you're reading the French Bible, you're reading Spanish, but you see it jump out. Brother McConnell's sitting over here. He ought to help me pronounce this word. But in Spanish, the real word for hell is inferno, inferiores. Say it for me. Oh, I knew I couldn't say that. But anyway, that even sounds like fire, don't it? And so when you get a Spanish Bible, brother, that's got that word in it, that means hell. When you got the word Hades, they're trying to air condition hell. They're trying to cool it off, because Hades is the place of the dead. If you go back into Greek mythology, you'll find out there was a big old hole in a mountain somewhere, and there was supposed to be an oracle there, sort of like a seer or a prophet or a fortune teller, and people would come in to meet with that oracle and contact their dead relatives and raise them up from Hades, where they were held, as it were, in store. Hey, when you get a Bible trying to change hell, you understand somebody's got a motive. Maybe they go in there. Could be. Watch out for that stuff. I just would say this. Stick with the old book. Stick with the old book. God has used it 400 years. He's not through with it yet. Oh, it's got the power of God on it. I'm going to stick with what God is picked, amen. I'm in pretty good human company even. You look and see what God's done with this book, how men have stood. We know the martyrs paid the price for it. We heard so much good on that this morning. I have in our Bible collection at our college, God has blessed us. We actually have an original King James and it's pretty delicate. You can't handle it much. It's pretty old, of course. We have along with that a Geneva Bible, somewhat forerunner of the King James, good Bible, God's word. We have one almost church carrying size, a little thick, have it in a glass case along with the King James and others. We call it the martyr's Bible because it's all smudged up, blackened with fire. It was literally in the hands of the martyr that was chained to the stake when he was burned and gave up his life. And that very Bible fell into the ashes and somebody in the crowd raked it out. You and I haven't paid much price. Brother Rick said a while ago, my brother Carter's taken some hits over it. Oh, no comparison. No comparison for the price that godly men paid for us to have this book. I say to you, it's amazing today, too many preachers, I believe a lot of them believe the Bible's the Word of God, but they don't understand the political pressure. I'm not talking about from Washington. I'm talking about from the Brethren. If there's anything I hate worse than a crooked politician, it's preacher politics. I have a problem with that. I won't get off on it. But I'm standing with some pretty good crowd when I stand for this book. Not only the martyrs that paid for it, I think of men, and I'll name some of them, they're controversial to some of you, but I'll tell you what, God blessed them because they stood for the book. J. Frank Norris, God used that man. I know all the junk, I've heard it, don't know how much of it's true, but I know God blessed him. Old J. Frank, Bob Jones Sr., not Jr., amen? Harold Seitler? I want to say even Jack Hobbs. Now, he wasn't right with it all the time, but I personally know he got right with it in his latter years. I wrote a little book called Things That Are Different Are Not The Same. Now, boy, that's deep, isn't it? I've been surprised how deep it is now for the times. I wrote that in 1993 as a result of a college class I was teaching. In 1996, Dr. Howells had his pastor school. In 1996, he called me. He said, the theme of the pastor school is going to be the King James Bible. And if he went, they'd done a pretty good job. Remember the flags coming out, marching around, and the choir saying, pointing to the king. It was nice. On the platform, he had Gail Rippinger up there. And he gave her an honorary doctorate. She's not a preacher, but, brother, she knows something about the Word of God. And Dr. Hiles honored her and Mike up on the platform with an honorary doctorate. He called me on the phone. He said, I want you to bring several boxes of your books. I said, Dr. Hiles, I haven't even paid for space. I didn't intend to bring a one. And he said, put them on my table. And I did bring several boxes and took home none, put them on his table. The staff that worked his table made this statement. They said, Dr. Howell said, if you want to understand the King James issue, get Dr. Carter's book. It's simple. Hey, I'm not ashamed of it being simple. Again, I want to put the hay down where all us barnyard critters can reach it. Amen? So I, with all the controversy of some of these names I'm mentioning, I really believe in the last years of his life, he took a stand on the book. When I hear an attack on Gail Rippinger or myself or anybody else, saying what Dr., hey, you'd make a dead man say anything. You know that? Better be careful with that. I know what he did personally. It was in 1996. He said, put out the book. Now, if you ever read my book, you would have no doubt I believe the Word of God was inspired and preserved. No question about it. Amen. Well, I'm standing with some pretty good company. I think about Otis Fuller, Al Lacy, Roy Thompson, Curtis Hudson. You say, well, Curtis didn't. Well, wait a minute. He preached his last sermon at the Southwide Meeting using the title of my book for his sermon. Say you're selling books, I don't even have one with me. I've never made a dime off of it, if they've helped somebody, fine. But Curtis Hudson called me on the phone. He said, can I use that title of your book, Things That Are Different Are Not The Same? I said, I'd be honored. I wasn't even there. And he punched it. I'm just simply saying, gee, that's a pretty good yardstick. I mean, do you think it's different in the NIV that had Virginia Mallincott as a lesbian on the board, and that was pointed out, I think, by the Doug this morning. 64,096 words less than your King James. If you ladies went to the grocery store and you bought a dozen eggs and you only got home and you only had nine, would you think you got cheated? Folks, go get them an NIV. 64,000 words missing. Hmm? Wonder what's missing? Huh? How about the blood? How about the deity of Jesus? Huh? There's a lot missing. I'm simply saying to you, there's been a lot of men God has raised up that's used the book, and His promise is what counts. The grass withered, the flower faded, but the Word of our God shall endure forever. Psalms 12, He promised to preserve them, Hey, here's the way I reason that thing out. It's like this. God said, I'm going to give you my Word. I'm going to preserve it. It'll never pass away. It'll last forever. Now, who said that? God. That's a promise from God. Now, does God have the power to keep His promise? I mean, the God that spoke the world in existence, is He short on power when it comes to preserving His Word? If He could part the Red Sea, is He short on power? No. So if He promised, and if He has the power, where is it? Huh? Are we going to have to get a magnifying glass and search through all the dusty manuscripts and get some of it here? And some of it here, and we're not ever sure. By the way, all the liberal perverters can't tell you which one is the very Word of God. And every one of them measures by the King James. But you know, God's done something for 400 years. He's let the common man. Grandma that went to the third grade got a copy of the book. Amen. Started off in the schoolhouses of early America. God, I mean, say, well, which one is it? Well, I'm going to let God tell me which one he picked. And this is the one he used. No doubt. No word, nothing close to it. He must have picked it. That's why it's still here. That's why they can't get rid of it. That's why the devil still hates it. Isn't it amazing how modern it is for what's going on today? I'm not going to get off in all that's happening in the world, but brother, this book was already ahead of it. You ever read in the book of Revelation over there, oh, over there in chapter 6, you have the seventh seal book that's taken off the hand of Him that sat on the throne in chapter 5. Chapter 6, the seals are being opened. You get down to the fifth seal, And you see the souls hid under the altar. They've been slain for the Word of God and their testimony. Slain in the tribulation period. We know by the time we get there that it's jumping ahead and telling us in the midst of the tribulation period, I think they're tribulation saints. Anyway, they're crying out to God for revenge. And He said, wait a little while till your brethren also killed. So you turn over to chapter 20, you pick it up around verse 4 or 5, and you find out the Antichrist is chopping their heads off. So how were they slain that was under the altar? They had their heads chopped off. I mean, the Bible always interprets itself. The death, the death was the head chopping. Now old preachers, down through the years, studied that thing out, and the major conclusion on it was that since the French Revolution, the guillotine, the means of capital punishment, the heads being chopped off, that that's probably what would happen in the tribulation period, be a guillotine. Well, then Islam came on the scene, and they've been chopping it with swords. And I can't understand why the president can't recognize who the enemy is, call them terrorists, admit the truth, quit apologizing for America all over the world. I don't get off on that either. I'm holding something in my hand, and you guys that can punch your magic box on the Internet, you could get this. I have to get it the hard way. There's a bill that passed recently in the state of Georgia, in the House of Representatives. Now, I'm not critical of Georgia. I think it's the promised land because I was born there. Been a missionary to Florida, though, for a long time. Bill 1274 in the Georgia House of Representatives. You can view the entire bill online, Georgia House of Representatives, blah, blah, blah, blah. They pass the bill. Here I'm going to read you the interesting part of it. The General Assembly finds that while prisoners condemned to death may wish to donate one or more of their organs for transplant, any such desire is messed up by the fact that electrocution makes all such organs unsuitable for transplant. So they go on with the legislative bill here. You know what happens to a man if he gets electrocuted? His organs cannot be transplanted. If he's hung by the neck, it messes him up. But if you chop his head off, you can get some fresh organs fast. Listen to it. It gets worse. They passed the bill, and now their plans is to store up in Georgia 30 thousand guillotines. And one state out west, I think, has got 15,000 stored up. Now, I beg the question. There's something wrong. Somebody's planning on a lot of people getting their heads chopped off. We're close to tribulation period, folks. All we're listening for is the trumpet. Then that crowd that hates us anyway, they're going to find out how rough it gets without us when the salt and the light's gone. Amen? But you know what? I wonder, 30,000 guillotines? They must dull often fast. I get more shades than that out of my razor when my wife leaves it alone. Amen? But you say, what's your point? I'm saying the Bible's way ahead of this. When you're reading the King James Bible, brother, the newspaper is way behind it. The truth of the matter is, you've got the very Word of God. Sometimes it's hard to understand. Old Mark Twain said, it's not the part I don't understand that bothers me, but the part that I do. And I want to say to you, we got the Word of God. God has made the pick for us. He's preserved His inspired Word. And what God wants you and I to do is use it in these closing days before Jesus comes. Amen. Father, may you add your blessing and bless the rest of the service tonight. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Thank you, Brother Carter. Appreciate that. Amen. And I hope you were listening and taking notes. We've got some good stuff. This thing goes around about every 30 years. I remember I'm hearing all the arguments and reading all the articles again. And I know I don't look it. 30 years ago I was in Bible college and I haven't heard one single new argument. I haven't heard one single new mistake in a King James Bible that I don't have written in notebooks from 30 years ago. It's just regurgitated every 30 years. And boy, wasn't it good this morning to hear that in the writing of our King James Bible they were saying the same thing. You say, well, these people never had that problem. You go back and read the testimonies of King James translators. The same arguments against the Word of God were thrown out back then. And at some point you get hung up in the whirlpool or the vortex or sometimes you just take your book and say, you guys go ahead without me. Amen? And so praise the Lord. I'm going to have Jonathan, where is he? We're going to sing and have a special. Now, I just want you to know this, if you need to get out, this is Baptist. We can't go. Longer than 30 minutes without seeing the bathroom, unless we're watching a football game, basketball game, a good movie, chick flick, something like that. But preaching just affects us. Amen? So if you do need to go, make sure you get out and get back as quick as you can, because we're going to go right ahead and get going real quick so you can hear another good preacher tonight. All right? OK, let's stand tonight and take our hymnals to 601. 601, how firm a foundation. Number 601 on the first house. Watch it now. When we get to that third line, we'll jump right into it. I'll show you how we do it. Are you ready? On the second, now let's sing. Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed, For I am thy God, and will still give thee aid. healthy and cause me to stand upheld by my righteous omnipotent. And on the third, when Thy retrial, thy pathway shall lie. Thy grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply. shall not hurt thee, I only desire thy crops to consume and thy gold to refine. The soul that on Jesus hath wept for repose, I will not, I will not return to his foes. That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake. You may be seated. We're going to have a special group sing for us now. On page number 14 of your booklet are the words. And my main concern with this song is not just the music, but that you get the words. I think it'll be a blessing to you. This is my word. Yeah. When the sun falls from heaven and he comes Swirling showers of the sun So is my world And the rains bring the water to the earth That is thirsty and thirsty So is my world And the word of my mouth, it shall not return at least. It will pass me on forever in His hands. This is my word. ♪ To grace bring renewal ♪ ♪ And then we must begin to come alive ♪ ♪ So is my word ♪ ♪ Is need to life's over ♪ ♪ And the bread to the hungry till they cry ♪ ♪ So is my word ♪ This is my voice and the word of my mouth. It shall not be heard empty. It will bless the earth wherever it is set. This is my word. This is my life. O Lord, when I am weary, when I feel the days I'm living are in vain, My God, how really grateful to the word you have given to proclaim, proclaim the word So go out in joy, and be led forth in peace, and the hymn of great glory will ring to song. So be grateful, brave and true, For I will go before you, and when your earthly journey here is done, I'll say, well done, I'll say, well done, I'll say, well done, well done. As the snow falls from heaven And the rain counts its showers from the sky This is my world, my world Alright, I think we're going to do something this week about the King James Bible's influence on music. I hope you'll be here for that. If you've ever heard the Hallelujah Chorus done by folks who actually believe the book that it came from and are saved, it'll be a blessing to you. And we're just thankful. Amen? Well, Sam Gipp was here all day yesterday. And if you haven't heard him before, buckle your seatbelt. Put your feet flat on the floor. Trade tables in the upright position. Hang on. All right. Brother Sam, come preach to us. All right. Boy, wouldn't it be nice, preachers, if you could get power that easy just for the flip of a switch? I think it was that easy or some guy still couldn't get it. Hey, somebody drank all my water. I took a sip out of that water. Somebody's going to catch bald. Amen. Well, it's good to be saved, isn't it? And it is good to be in church. You know, I know I'm a little warped when I think. But I'll tell you what I think about it. Imagine it's 1901, and you are one of the translators of the American Standard Version that's going to replace the King James, right? And so you come out with all that fanfare, what are you going to do? And ten years later is the 300th anniversary. And you've got to sit there like this. Oh man, well everybody's making a big deal out of it. You know that happened. Somebody made a big deal out of the 300th anniversary of the King James Bible. And within a dozen more years, your Bible's out of business. Well, that's just free. Okay, okay. I really kind of threw this together this afternoon, so you have to bear with me. Just a lot of things here. I want you to open your Bibles to Genesis chapter 41. Genesis chapter 41. I'm not preaching out of that. I just want to see if it's in your version. Now, we know that Joseph was a type of the Lord. And this is just before the great famine came. And Joseph didn't even know who he was talking about when he said this, but he says this in verse 33 to Pharaoh, because he is just interpreting Pharaoh's dream. And he says this, he says, Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. Let's bow our heads, let's talk to the Lord. Father, it's good to be saved. It is good to be saved. It's good to be in church on a Monday night. I'll tell you why it's good, God, because most all these people came just to hear the Bible read with no commentary whatsoever. And that wasn't for that wasn't because they want to hear Brother Carter or me. They came because they want to hear you. They want to hear your word. I hope you were blessed by the attendance and that Bible reading. Also, God, this is not a church night, which means every one of these people have something they're usually doing around 637 o'clock and all the rest of the evening. And they chose to be in church instead. And so, God, I hope you are blessed out. These folks have actually worshipped you by their this by their attendance. Now, Lord, I pray that you will present this message and give them some food for thought and some things to think about, Lord, that we about our book and about how you gave it to us in Jesus Christ's name. We pray. Amen. Let me tell you about somebody. His mother's name was Mary. His legitimacy, her being a child, was questioned. There were attempts made for her to lose that child before he was even born, and there were attempts made on his life after he was born. He was born into a baser kingdom, but he was destined for a much higher throne. Though he was a king, he was born in very humble surroundings. A great assembly announced his birth. He was given gifts of gold at his birth, and he was preceded by a wild preacher named John. I'm not going to tell you his name. I'll just give you the first initial and the first letter and the last letter. The first letter is only five letters, but the first one is J, the last one is S. And he had many titles. and I'm going to read some of those titles for you tonight. Prince and Stuart of Scotland, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Lord of the Isles, and Baron of Renfrew. The man I was talking to you about was a man named James. We call him King James, but he is known as King James Stuart. That was his last name. It is sometimes spelled S-T-U-A-R-T. When I was in Scotland last November, I saw it in their display spelled S-T-E-W-A-R-T, very similar to Stuart. And I'm going to talk to you about King James Stuart. I'm going to talk to you about those three names, King, James, Stuart. All three of those are significant. You know what the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 8, verse 4, where the word of a king is, there is power. And let me tell you about this man who was the king. As a child, they say that he was highly intelligent. You know, some people like to mock him. Somebody made this statement, he was the wisest fool in Christendom. I'll tell you, don't you get kind of tired of people taking cheap shots at somebody that is on a standard beyond them? you are listening to who had brother James white material appeared a brother brother stop here is this bozo talking down about 47 guys that any one of them was debate somebody they could have done it in Greek at age 15 And then this guy, you know, I mean, they ought to feed him his food on a stainless steel plate that they slide under the door with nothing sharp so he doesn't hurt himself when he tries to eat. And then talk down about 47 men who on a bad day, any one of them was better than him. This king was highly intelligent. They say he had excellent memory and he was an easy learner. By age 16, he had memorized the histories of most nations. He spoke and read, obviously Scottish, that's what he was, also English, also Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, and Italian. You know, just like James White. I think everybody needs a nickname, and I think Snow would be the best for him. He studied the Protestant reformers, the Augsburg Confession, the French and Swiss Protestant churches, the classics, devotionals, history, science, military science, and most of all, the Bible. King James was a tremendous Bible student. You know when, and I think somebody alluded to that today too, the King James Bible was not just restricted to those 47 men. When it talked about the learned men, that book was reviewed. Any learned man in England, though he did not sit on the translation committee, could indeed look over it and give some kind of a judgment call. History does not tell us that James did that, but I want you to know he was one of the most learned men. Do you remember something about monarchs in those days? They were monarchs. Oh, really? See, you don't understand it. They weren't running for election. They were born to this. They didn't have to be smart. And they didn't have to be educated. And many times they were not, because it was just, they're going to be king, right? They're going to be king anyway. You don't have to have an education to be the king. Let's be like, look at our president. You don't have to be a citizen to be president anymore. One of this king's two private tutors was a man by the name of Peter Young, who was a student of a fellow by the name of Theodore Beza. And when the King James translator sat around to translate that Bible, Theodore Beasley's fifth edition Greek was the one they used. Get this, you know, I've often said that England, during the time the translation of the King James Bible was in what I call parentheses of purity. Because Roman Catholicism controlled everything prior to that, and it wasn't long after that before Roman Catholicism controlled everything again. Well, the same thing is true of this man. His mother was a Roman Catholic and his son was a Roman Catholic. And yet there was this fellow who was a Protestant King and he was a staunch anti-Roman Catholic. He rejected Roman Catholicism when he was 11 years old. He was pretty wise, wasn't he? At age 22, he debated the Jesuit James Gordon five times publicly and won every time. Gordon conceded. Now that's just King. Watch who you're talking about. But get this, I like this guy, I really do. You know, he became king when he was just over a year old. He was, I'll give you the dates, we're gonna write this stuff down, he was born June 19, 1566, and on July 20, I've heard everything from 24th to 29th, I have 29th, July 29, 1567, he became king officially at the death of his mother. and by the way, the wild man named John that preceded him was a guy named John Knox. He became king of England on March 24th, 1603, and died March 27th, 1625. It was five years old, this little king. He was five years old. He addressed the assembly of men. Now you understand though he was king, his kingdom, Scotland, was run by a group of regents. And he got up and gave a speech. an opening address, a five-year-old. I mean, can you imagine a five-year-old giving an address today? I'm going to launch a TV program. I'm going to launch a cartoon. And he finishes talking to grown men, and here's what he said. He told them to be careful what they did. It's his country and all. He said, because, quote, he will answer to God and to me afterwards. You say, who's that? That's a king. That is a king. He believed in the divine right of kings, all right? You know, people knock that, but we don't like kings anyway. I'm amazed that we're so enamored with what's going on over there right now. What do I care about that? I wonder sometimes if he's going to be the Antichrist. Would it be a perfect one? I mean, he's beautiful, everybody loves him, he'd be the king of England, who knows? Oh, that was free, that was free. Don't tell whatever name is, you might not marry him. But he was indeed a king. Let me tell you about James. James is Jacob. You know what Jacob was? If he was anything, what is Jacob? He's the surplanter. We know what Jacob did, don't we? And everybody looks down on Jacob. Can I give you a thought? Because you probably haven't had one since you put the remote down. I was reading the Bible yesterday, and I read about Asa. And if you read all of Kings, this is just a thought, alright? Whenever you read about a king in the Bible, he is mentioned, tells when he came to power, and then almost a verse or two, never more than that, right after that, it says, he did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, or his heart was right, or he did that which was evil. And I'm reading about Asa, and it said he did that which was right in everything. And I'm thinking, this is a guy that later stripped some of the stuff, the gold out of the temple and gave it away and bought an army to protect him. And God said, this guy did everything right. This is a guy that says in his latter days was diseased in his feet and turned to doctors and didn't turn to the Lord. And when a prophet came along, he put him in jail. And God said he did all right. And here's my problem. My problem is I'm thinking, how can I justify this guy as good when he had these bad things? And the light finally came on after all these times. We're all wicked. You know what's wrong with you? You hear about a preacher and he lost his temper or he told a lie. And you want to burn him at the stake. You know why? Because you want him to be perfect. You know what you don't understand? We're all liars. I mean really liars. And we are all deceivers. And we are all vile. And we are all really a bad crowd. What you don't understand about Asa, see, we think... I know you guys say you believe the Bible that men are not all good. And yet that is exactly what we expect out of everybody. And when it finally came to me, those few things that I thought were bad about Asa, that was Asa. It was all that good stuff that was the exception. It was everything that he did right that was the exception. Now look guys, I'm not trying to justify your sin, but that is so natural for you. It's when you actually do something right you ought to sit down and be astounded. And when you hear, I'm serious, when you hear about a preacher, because guys, we judge our best men by their worst moment. Uzziah was a good man. That's what it said about him. But he went to that temple and tried to make that offering and ended up being the leper the rest of his life. And if you say anything good about Uzziah, if I preach about Uzziah and don't mention that, one of you will come up and let me know, you know, he didn't do that. Well, what'd you expect? He's a dirty, rotten sinner. He's wicked as you are. He's wicked as me. It was the good stuff that was the exception. This king was exceptional. But he was James the supplanter. You know what that supplanter does? He takes something from somebody. You say, well, how could that be good? Oh, no. He took Scotland and England with the Roman Catholic Church. I think that's pretty good, don't you? Man, they tried. They tried. They tried to get him. They tried to get him to be a Roman Catholic. They tried to get somebody to raise him as a Roman Catholic. They did everything they could. Listen, by the time this man was 28, he almost died in the womb. His father was murdered in front of his mother while she was expecting him. They were hoping that she would then go into labor and give a premature birth and he would die. His father was murdered right in front of his mother. So he almost died in the womb. He was kidnapped twice as a child. He resisted attempts to kidnap him three separate times, in which he had to get into a room and literally hold the door closed, and fled from five different plots to kidnap him. We don't understand the intrigue of being a king, but that's what you would do. You would get this guy, and then he would have to concede some form of power. The Roman Catholics were always trying to get a hold of him. This is what they said about him. Quote, he faced danger and difficulty with energy and courage. That's what the people that knew him said. Don't believe some guy telling you the guy was a pervert. You can say anything about somebody 25 years after they're dead. In the book that he wrote, the Basilica in Doran, which he wrote to his son, And he wanted to tell his son, when he grew up, he wanted to give him some rules to live by. The very first thing, he wanted to be a good king. You know what he talked about? The king's relationship to God. He didn't tell the king how to be a good king, how to rule well, how to get these people to do what you want them to do. It wasn't that. The very first thing, He told his son as a king the relationship he had to do. He was you may not know this, but King James was a habitual lifelong Bible reader. He was always reading the Bible. The first thing he wanted his son to do was be he talked about his relationship with God. The second was in the duties of his office. And the third was the manners and relationships and customs and etiquette and things like that. He was, are you ready for this, anti-effeminate. Let me read you something. The son he wrote this to was Henry who died and didn't become king. But he told Henry, Henry is not to be uncivil in eating like a gross cynic or fastidious like a dainty dame. I like this guy. But to eat, quote, in a manly, round, and honest fashion. He should not dispatch business, nor be sad and pensive during meals, but should be cheerful, having pleasant histories read to him, or engaging in honest conversation. One of the things that King James did is, you know how you guys will, you're jogging and you might get one of those audio books? You know, you put your CD audio book in and you're doing something and you're listening to a book? Well, they didn't, They didn't have it back then. So you know what he would do while he was eating? He had a guy stand behind him and read to him. And literally, he would read histories and he'd have a guy stand behind him reading a book to him so that while he's eating, he's hearing it. He used to dress with moderation, not artificially decked like a courtesan. accordion, nor sluggishly clothed like a country clown, not lightly dressed like a candy soldier, or overly overgravely like a minister. But his garment should be proper, clean, comely, honest, and suitable for the occasion. Now listen to this. Plus armor should be worn when he goes to war, unless he wishes to be light, quote, for a way running, unquote. He told his kid, he said, wear your armor to battle, pal, unless you plan on running. A feminine thing such as perfume and long hair or nails must be avoided. Some of you heard he was a queer. Big deal. Who cares what you heard? I heard that Obama was going to help the country. They just never told us which country. In his language, Henry is told to be plain, honest, natural, eschewing both rustic crudeness, he said, don't be overly crude, and also avoid book language and pen and ink foreign terms. He said, in other words, don't be vulgar. Don't be crude. You know, this is a sidebar. I like, you may not know this, but I like humor. And real humor takes thinking. If you ever heard Abbott and Costello do Who's on First? That took practice. You think they didn't sit out? I bet they rewrote it. I bet you could find an old script of they had it backwards or something else. I bet they went over that and over that and over that. You know why? Because real humor takes thinking. Today's comedians, there's no thinking. Now guys, look, we've all had little children. I mean, you know, little four, five, six year olds say something that they didn't understand what they said and it would have been off color, but we all, we giggled. Because when a little innocent child says that it's funny, but you know, when the kid turns 21, it ain't funny. And today's humor is crude. Can I tell you humor is not written on the stall at the bathroom. But that's where these guys get there. And some of them, it's like, how many gross things can I say to you? He said, don't be like that. He said, don't be gross. But he said, but don't use pen and ink terms and the scholarly language. I had a student in a college I taught in years ago. He was an idiot. He was an idiot and was scared to death nobody was going to know and he tried to prove it every day. And he would come into my office and he'd try to impress me. And I remember he was in my office one time and I said, I'm not going to say his name, but I said, I said, you doing anything tonight? He goes, no, no. I said, could you be here tonight at seven o'clock? Yes, yes. What are we going to do? I said, we're not going to do anything. I said, I'm not going to be here. He said, why do you want me here at seven o'clock? I said, because tonight at seven o'clock, Out here in the bus, guys, they're going to be tearing the heads off a bus. I said, you need to come down here and help them tear the heads off a bus and get some grease on your fingernails and find out what men do for a living. Good night, man. You'd have thought I cussed his mom. He goes, I said, God wants my brain, not my hands. I said, get out of my office. And so he wrote me a letter. And this guy literally would. It was like, I learned a new word today. You could not understand a letter he wrote without a dictionary in your hand. And so he wrote me this letter. And he's always writing to me. Over the years, he's always writing to me, trying to impress me. And so I went out and I found a coloring book of Noah and his ark. And I think it was like for third grade, so I figured he could probably, in a few years, he could handle it. And I got him this coloring book, and I bought him a box of crayons, and I sent it to him. And I said, I just wanted you to know, it took me a long time to find a theology book on your level. But I said, remember the two most important rules. Stay within the lines, and don't eat the crayons. And I say that for this reason. The next letter I got from him, I understood every word. Yeah, man, he kind of reverted back. He went back to the comedian off the bathroom wall. He got real gross. I mean he got pretty rang James the man did not turn to the nobles of Scotland or England or the Presbyterian or Church of England for advice, but he turned to the common man and He really did believe in the divine right of kings. He felt he was an absolute monarch. He felt he was the absolute monarch over his subjects. But you know what he told his son? He said, you are like their father. He didn't look at him like he was their owner and that they were his bond servants, his slaves. He did feel he was their absolute monarch, but that didn't mean he had to browbeat him, or humiliate him, or take advantage of him. He never did that, and taught his son to treat his subjects like he was their father. And that was James the Supplanter. Let me tell you about Stuart, the servant. Now, what is a Stuart? Isn't that somebody that has something entrusted to their care? Isn't it strange? Isn't it coincidental that where the word of a king is, there's power, so we get a Bible from a king? That James was the supplanter, and this man supplanted some things from the world, and that his last name was Stuart, as though something were entrusted to him. Well, I'll tell you, like, you know, I was telling somebody one time something happened to me, you know, and they said, don't you think that's a coincidence? And I said, well, if it is, because I was talking about how God had done this for me, you know, God was so good and God, look how gracious God was. They said, well, don't you think that's a coincidence? I said, well, if it is, I don't think God minds if I give him credit for it. I mean, guys, I know this couldn't happen, but if you were walking down the street and you found a $50 bill, I lost it. I know this couldn't happen, but if you're walking down the street and you found a $50 bill, now this part could not happen, that God didn't know was there. And you went to church and said, look man, God let me find a $50 bill. I don't think God minds if you give Him credit for it. I figure this, haven't we blamed Him for stuff He didn't do? As the steward, he sought to teach his son how to be a good man and a good king. That was very important to him. So he sought to be a good steward of his family. He sought to be a good steward and to protect his people. He wrote a track. You know what the name of it was? Counterblast to Tobacco. He was an anti-smoker. Now, he was a hunter. You guys like to hunt? He'd make you look like a wimp. This guy hunted almost every day. He loved to hunt. And he had a problem. I can't remember the name of the disease, but he wobbled. His legs were like bowed and so he was unstable when he walked. He would have himself tied to his horse. They would put him on his horse and he would have himself tied on his horse so he wouldn't fall off his horse when he was going hunting. He hunted the forest empty of deer and had to have them imported so he could go hunt some more. Some of you guys, come on, man. He probably had a better rack on his den than you do. You've got this little stinking button buck. You sat in a tree until you fell asleep. In his Counterblast of Tobacco, here's what he said. Here's how he describes smoking. Loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs. You think he's reading the AMA? almost like he's a prophet too. Dangerous to the lungs and the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible staggian smoke of that pit which is bottomless. You know, I wish the guy wasn't such a wallflower. I wish he'd say what he had on his mind. He also gave the reason why most people begin to smoke. Quote, such is the force of that natural self-love as we cannot be content unless we imitate everything that our fellows do, and so prove ourselves capable of everything they are capable of, like apes, counterfeiting the manners of others to our own destruction. What did he think of a husband that smoked? Quote, the husband shall not be ashamed to reduce thereby his delicate, wholesome, and clear-complexioned wife to that extremity that either she must also corrupt her sweet breath therewith, or else resolve to live in a perpetual stinking torment." He sought to protect his people. The steward propagated the gospel. It has pleased God of His infinite goodness to call me by His grace and mercy to the knowledge of my salvation." Oh, listen to what he thought about queers. You can say queer. Come on, man. Look, if you don't come up and tell me I've got to have grace with them, you have twice as much because you need to pick up what I left off. There are some horrible crimes that ye are bound in conscience never to forgive. such as witchcraft, willful murder, incest, and sodomy. Well, you know, you realize what an insult, not just a lie, you realize what an insult is to wait till that guy's dead 25 years and then claim he was one? I'll bet Anthony Weldon, Anthony Weldon, the guy that started that rumor, but you have to understand something. You know, you think racism is between people, it has to do with the color of people's skin. Can I tell you something? Do you know who's killing Africans? Who's killing black people in Africa? Black people. You know who's killing white people in Bosnia? White people. You know who's killing Muslims in, what, Egypt, Libya, everywhere else? Other Muslims, same race. And you understand the Brits, the English, you don't want to know what they thought of the Scots. But they thought they bordered on the subhuman. So can you imagine what some Brits, some Englishmen thought when they got a Scottish king? And then he brought in a Scottish court. Anthony Weldon was not a Scot. He was in the court, but he was a Brit. He was an Englishman. And he absolutely hated, with a racial passion, the Scottish. And that hatred came out so bad that the king threw him out of the court. Now you don't understand, again, you don't understand what it was to be in the court. You know what it is? You're fixed for life. You get in the court, man, you're fixed for life. Your kids get educated, you get sweet deals, and when you get expelled from the court, you're back to plowing somebody's cornfield. And Anthony Weldon swore vengeance against the king. And so he waited until the guy was dead for 25 years when he made up the lie that he was a queer. You know how you know he wasn't a queer? You know how you know? The queers don't claim him. Wouldn't that be... I was going to say a feather in their cap. I don't want anything in their cap. They don't need another feather. But really guys, they don't even claim him. You know why? Because they know he wasn't. Only Christians would say such a wicked thing about this guy. I give this here. For the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Gee, I wonder where he got that from. Praying God that you are regenerated and born in him anew so that you may rise to him and be sanctified in him forever. Amen. Let's see if I can pick another up here. I am no papist. Oh, he was deaf on the Catholic Church. He banished. the Roman Catholic priests and Jesuits. He really didn't like the Jesuits. He wouldn't let the Presbyterian Church run him. You've got to remember, in Scotland, he was the head of the Presbyterian Church, the Church of Scotland, and he always had a problem with those Calvinists, though he was a Calvinist himself. But when he came down south, he was the King of England. When I was in Scotland in November, we were there when the Pope was going to visit. and the Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth, came up to Scotland. You may not know this, but when she leaves England, she's the head of the Church of England. If this is the Scottish border, when she steps in, she ceases to be the head of the Church of England, and she is now the head of the Church of Scotland. So what does that mean? That means whichever country she's in, if she makes any kind of a deal with the Pope, it only stands for that country. She couldn't make a deal for the Church of England while she's in Scotland. And so we're at Edinburgh Castle. By the way, I told you he was born in humble surroundings. You know where he was born? I was in the room, in a closet. Here's a king, future king. He was born in a closet. There's a closet. It was maybe, it was like what we call a walk-in closet. It was maybe like from here to there and over to the end of that pew. It was off a very large, ornate room, but when it was time to give birth, his mother went in there. Isn't it amazing that this king was born like we had one that was born in a manger? And so, anyways now, what was I telling you? What was I telling you? Oh, oh, oh. Oh, so we're in Edinburgh Castle and we're just about to leave and I see these three guys. in dresses. You know, Roman Catholic dresses. And they had a little cross hanging from their hip, and they had an official Vatican deal right here, and they were talking, you know, into a camera. So I called one over to the car, and I said, are you guys with the Pope? Oh, yeah, we're with the Pope. Riccatoni, we're with the Pope. So I gave him a track. Which is really good. You know why? Because on my tracks, somebody asked the other day, were these a pack of lucky strikes in my pocket? No, they're not. But on my track, the address, the mailing address with my name is my mailing address, which is my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, which means the day the house blows up, we won't be there anyway. And we're going to miss them. Now faith is the free gift of God. It must be nourished by prayer, which is no thing but a friendly talking to God." He did. He was a very spiritual man. He was forever quoting the Bible. I think Brother Shutt mentioned this morning, but at age eight, he could read any chapter in the Bible, picked out arbitrarily, read it in Latin, then do a running translation into French, and then translate the French into English. Guys, that is not a small brain. As for purgatory, and all the trash depending thereupon, it is not worthy of talking of. But as for me, I am sure there is a heaven and a hell. Let's see what I've got here. Rome shall be the seat of the Antichrist. Rome is the seat of the Antichrist. Oh, what does it tell you? He wouldn't totally side up with the the Presbyterian Church and run all the Catholics out. He was friendly to some Catholics, not to the Catholic Church, not the organization. You are friendly to some Catholics. But then, you know what he told the Roman Catholic Church to do? Get rid of the papacy, and you guys come and join the Church of England. That's what he told them. He said, just throw the Pope out, and then you guys can come and join my church. I'll let you. He considered himself a member of the pre-500 A.D. primitive church. You say, what is that? That's what you think you're a member of. Now, you can call them in history, you can call them the Waldensians or the Albigensians or whatever you want to call them. But that's what he believed he was a part of. He really believed he was a part of the pre-500 A.D. Christian church. He pulled no punches in his arguments with the Pope and the Roman Catholics. I'll tell you what he did. He united England, Ireland, and Scotland and formed the foundation on which the British Empire was built. This is the guy that put it all together. You know, I don't know if you realize this, we look back at Saul, the king, and we always see, again, we see this bad guy, but you know what he did? He united these twelve warring Jewish tribes that couldn't even... I mean, remember? Remember the book of Judges? They're all killing each other and stealing each other's daughters to marry them to their sons, and half of them are perverts or something, one whole tribe is... And so, when Saul became king, you know what he did? He united the tribes. You say, well, then hand it off to David. But he was the one that built the foundation upon which David built his great kingdom. If he hadn't done that, David would have had to do the foundation work. James did the foundation work. And he gave us an authorized version of our King James Bible. Do you know why he wanted the Bible in English? He wanted the Bible in English so that his people, the common people, could have the Bible in their hands. This is this King James Stuart. I think he was a good king. I think he was a good Jacob. and I think he was a good steward. Now let me tell you about three men. We owe a lot to three men in our history. We owe, to a man named George Washington, we owe our freedom. I don't know if you're aware of it, but when our nation was birthed, right after the revolution, the men in power, they weren't just trying to be dictators and have another monarchy. You have to understand, our form of government has been called an experiment because nobody had ever done it before. No one knew how you ran a country where people voted. Vote. Shut up and hit them in the head. Really, that's what it was. And so, after the Revolution, a group of men in power came to George Washington and offered to make him King George I of the United States. You know why he didn't become King George I? Because he said no. He said we just fought a revolution to stop that very thing. Oh wait guys, we're doing the same thing. You understand how different our life would be if he had said yes? The only reason this nation is free today is because he said, I will not be what we just tried to, not overthrow, he didn't want to overthrow King George in England, but what we just fought to get out of our country. So we owe our freedom to a man by the name of George Washington. We owe the unity of our country to a man by the name of Abraham Lincoln. For all of you guys who are trying to fight a war that you weren't around when it happened and I wasn't around when it happened either, My fifth grade teacher was around when it happened, he was an old man. I had a guy, I know he was well-meaning, and he said this to me, he said, well you know, if the South would have won, there would have been two great nations. Now that is so shallow, that is not diving into the deep end of the pool, that is skinning your nose in a mud puddle. A listen, here's what would have happened. I don't know if you're aware, but toward the end of the Civil War, Virginia was talking about seceding from the Confederacy. And had the South won, there wouldn't have been two great nations. Many states that came in out West never would have come in. The United States probably would have split again. The Confederacy would have split, and you'd have had just a bunch of little, you'd have had a Europe of America. And I'll tell you what the devil saw. The devil saw the potential for bad for him if this nation remained united. And Lincoln kept it together. Curse him. Kiss him. Love him or hate him. Tell me what's wrong with him. Put him in heaven if you want. I'm all for it. But I'm telling you that our nation, again, we would not be what we are. We would have never been the world power. God never would have blessed us if it were not for Abraham Lincoln. We owe our freedom to George Washington. We owe our unity as a nation to Abraham Lincoln, and we owe our Bible to King James Stewart. If you feel any indebtedness to that guy named Washington, and you should, and if you feel any indebtedness to that man by the name of Abraham Lincoln who gave his life for what he believed, and you should, you should not let anybody tread on this man's name. You should not let them tread on his integrity. You should not let them say something about a better man than they are. He was a king. And he was the supplanter. And he picked all the right pockets. And he was the steward. And he took care of the faith, did he not? And delivered us a Bible that is still around 400 years later. You know, I was thinking, we alluded to this, I think Brother Rick alluded to this, almost joking, about we won't be around for the 500th. We will. I'm going to be there. It's going to be somewhere in the millennium. In fact, if this thing can work out right, we can get the tribulation over and we can see the 500th and the 600th inside of there. Right? I'm for it. But guys, think about this. You're not only here for the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, you're going to be around for the 500th anniversary and the 600th anniversary. I like it. Thank God for King James Stewart. Really, that man did us not a favor. He gave us a great blessing. Preacher, I'll have a word of prayer and I'll let the preacher come and close this up. Father, we thank you now, God, for this book. And Lord, we thank you for the man that you used to put it in our hands. And he has been disparaged by not just the people that hate him, but even some of these folks have listened to the gossip. And they've tried to pretend. They try to not mention him. They try not to think about him. And yet, God, he was indeed a king. And he was the king that you put on the throne. And he was James. And he was a steward. And a faithful steward at that. And God, we thank you tonight for King James Stewart. We thank you, God, for the Bible that bears his name. And I pray, God, that we will just keep him in our hearts as we do Washington, as we do Lincoln, for what he bequeathed to a generation he could never know. But has he not blessed us? In Jesus' name, amen. Alright, I did want my piano player, where'd she go? Yeah, come here, we'll sing a song. I like history. You say, well, you know, I came to church for something else. Well, I don't know what you got, but I'm glad we've got a history that is what it is. And you say, well, I don't like bragging on a human being. I've been in a lot of meetings where all we did was brag on preachers. I heard somebody say the other day, well, you know, He built such a great work. You never met a preacher in your life that built a work. Not if this Book is true. You may have met some men God blessed, but Jesus said, I'll build the church. But we have a tendency, like you've got here, we have our heroes and that's alright. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm glad we've got some heroes that did something that lasted 400 years. And I appreciate where we are. You're going to learn a lot this week. I told you you would. I hope you got a notebook already full and because they're writing all kind of books and they're good books. They'll keep you stirred up anyway. All right. We're going to sing a song and be dismissed. You say no invitation to do what? How about an invitation tonight to go home and just ruminate? That's a good old-fashioned word, isn't it? On what you've heard and what you've learned today. And to thank God tonight somewhere in the darkness for what He gave you because it set you free. You've got a song in your heart tonight you would never have had had somebody not taken that book and preached it to you. You've got friends tonight you'd have never met in your life. had it not been for that book. You came tonight and sang songs you would have never known had it not been for that book. And you had God stir your heart tonight through the preaching and through history. It would have never happened if God hadn't given you a book. And that's what this week's all about. Alright, John, let's sing. And when we're done, we'll have a word of prayer. You can go home, I reckon. Amen. Okay, let's stand tonight and sing number 593. Maybe we'll sing verses 1, 3, and 4, 593. This is a song about my mother's Bible. I know not everyone can say this, but thank God many can sing this. And let's sing it from a heart, from a history. And many of you know your mother had a Bible, and she was faithful to read it. I hope it'll be a blessing to you tonight. Let's sing on the verse. There's a dear and precious book, though it's worn and plaited now, which recalled those happy days of long ago, when I stood at mother's knee with her hand upon my brow, and I heard her voice in gentle tones and low, blessed book. Precious fool, on thy dear old tear-stained leaves I love to look. Thou art sweeter day by day as I walk the narrow way that leads at last to that bright home above. On the third, Then she read of Jesus' love, as He blessed the children dear, How He suffered, bled, and died upon the tree. Of His heavy load of care, then she dried my flowing tears, With her kisses, as she said it was for me. Blessed book, precious book On my dear old tear-stained leaves I love to look Thou art sweeter day by day As I walk the narrow way That leads at last to that bright home above Well, those days are past and gone But their memory lingers still And the dear old book each day has been my guide And I seek to do His will, as my mother taught me then, And ever in my heart His word abides. Sing it now. Blessed book, precious book, On thy dear old dear saint leaves I love to look. Thou art sweeter day by day as I walk the narrow way that leads at last to that bright home above. Good song. I have my mothers, my grandmothers, and my great-grandmother's Bibles in my office and my father's, one of my father's Bibles. And they mean as much to me as any book I have in my office, in a book that I own because of the legacy, the heritage. David said, have a goodly heritage. And if you do, we're back to here. It's about that book. Let's pray. Father, thank You tonight. that we have just these few days to sit down and appreciate your book. We ought to appreciate it all the time. Lord, we confess tonight that we take advantage of it. Lord, someone talked last night about throwing the remote on it, putting it in the back window of the car. Lord, taking it for granted, not realizing how many drops of blood and how many tears have been shed. How many prayers were prayed that we might have this book and this liberty. Lord, how you shaped and molded the lives of individuals that would contribute to seeing that this book might have the opportunity to influence a nation. And Lord, we know ultimately it was Yours to give and it was Yours to protect and we have it tonight because it came from You. But Lord, we know that You've used people. You've used those that were faithful. You've used those that had the ability to stand against strong opposition to give to us what we have tonight. Now Lord, Pray that in these few days you'll deepen, Lord, our appreciation for this book. That God, if it is possible, and I believe it is, Lord, that we might have a profound influence on our world in these last days, that we might again take this book and use it for what it was intended, to reach folks with the Gospel, to live and walk the way You'd have us to live and walk, to be the people that, Lord, we ought to be. And I pray You'd bless our fellowship tonight and, Lord, the things that we'll do even in the days ahead. Bless tomorrow's sessions and, Lord, tomorrow evening's preaching, all that will be done. May You be the center. And, Lord, as we focus on Your book, as I said, we know where it came from. We know who protects it, who guards it. And, Lord, we do thank You for being a God that loved us enough to talk to us. Lord, not that we would just sit and talk about, but a God that talks back to us through His Word. Dismiss us tonight with Your blessings. And again, bless our fellowship.