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King James Bible Search
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Genesis Class
The word "Genesis" means beginnings. These Bible studies are indepth studies on the beginning lessons of the Christian life. They have been used to help hundreds of people get strongly grounded in the faith.
- Eternal_Security
- Baptism
- Soul-Winning
- The Church
- The Word Of God
- Tithing
- Tongues
The Word Of God
JESUS: The Written and Living Word
One evidence of the value of the Bible is the character of those that oppose it.
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading people - Horace Greely
Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself ..... But because it contradicts them.
Other books were given for our information ........The Word of God was given for our transformation.
Last night I paused beneath the blacksmith’s door,
And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime;
Then looking in, I saw upon the floor,
Old hammers worn with beating years of time.
"How many anvils have you had," said I,
"To wear and batter all these hammers so?"
"Just one," said he, and then with twinkling eye,
"The anvil wears the hammers out, you know."
"And so," I thought, "The Anvil of God’s Word
For ages skeptic blows have beat upon,
Yet, though the noise of falling blows was heard,
the Anvil is unharmed, the hammers gone."
I. God's Word is Very Important to God
A. Ps 138:2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
At the name of Jesus:
1. We are saved
2. We are Baptized
3. Demons are cast out
4. The sick are healed
5. Dead are raised
6. Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess
B. It is totally of God
2 Tim 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
C. It is the only Source of truth
Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
D. It has always been. There was never a time when God's Word was not.
1. Ps 119:89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
2. Ps 119:152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
E. The word of God is your only offensive weapon.
All of the other armor is defensive.
1. Eph 6:10-18 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
2. Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
F. Just give them the Word of God.
1. Jonah. Look at how backslidden he was
2. Jer 23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
G. It is God's Word that has power.
(Bro. Roloff made his kids memorize one or more chapters of the Bible a week.)
1. Jer 23:29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
2. It is with the Bible that Jesus will smite the nations.
Rev 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
H. Every word is important.
Matt 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
I. God's Word is very pure.
1. Ps 119:140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
2. Prov 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
3. Ps 12:6-7 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever.
It is God's job to perform the preservation of His Word.
Because it was inspired when it was first written and God has preserved His word, it is still just as inspired as it was when it was first written.
J. God has promised that His Word shall stand forever.
Isa 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
II. Mechanical Dictation- God Spoke the Bible; Man Just Wrote It Down
Exod 24:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Hosea 8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
A. 2 Pet 1:19-21 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
(Carried or driven)
B.
2 Sam 23:2 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
C.
Ezek 3:4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
D.
Ezek 3:10-11 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
E. 1 Tim 1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
1. Paul wasn't testifying here.
2. God was telling Paul he was chief of sinners.
F. How many times in the Bible does it say,
"The Word of the Lord,"-------------------- 16
"Thus saith the Lord, ........." --------------- 135
"Word of God," -------------------------------- 51
H. The critics say, "Only the originals are inspired and true scripture."
This is false because:
1. They themselves have never seen the originals.
2. Jesus quoted scripture and called scripture from the Old Testament, scripture, after it had been copied for 600 years.
Mark 12:10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
Luke 4:17-21 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
3. God has either preserved His Word or He has not.
4. I find it very easy to believe that the God Who made the world and saved me can also very easily preserve His Word.
I.
Satan has a three-fold plan in Genesis 3.
1.
He gets you looking at what you cannot have and cannot do, instead of all the freedoms you do have because you are a Christian.
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2. He gets you doubting God's Word.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
3.
He then promises satisfaction from disobeying the Word of God. The Devil always pays in counterfeit money.
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
III. Revival Came Because the Word of God Was Found And It's Authority Was Submitted To
A.
II Ki 22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
B.
Faith comes from hearing the Word of God.
Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
C. If you don't use the right BIBLE, then Christians won’t grow.
1.
1 Pet 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
2.
James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
D. Will the Holy Spirit bless that which He did not inspire? NO!!
John 3:3-5 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
E. You are to carry God's Word with you all the time.
Ps 149:5-6 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
IV. Facts About the Bible
A. Sixty-six different books, written by one God.
B. Penned by forty different men of God over a span of one-thousand, five-hundred (1,500) years and not one contradiction.
C. Contains one-thousand, one-hundred and eighty-nine (1,189) chapters.
D. Contains forty-one thousand, one-hundred and seventy-three (41,173) verses.
E. Contains seven-hundred and seventy-four thousand, and seven-hundred and forty-six (774,746) words.
F. Contains three-million, five-hundred and sixty-six, and four-hundred and eighty (3,566,480) letters.
G. Shortest chapter is Psa. 117.
H. Longest chapter is Psa. 119.
I. Largest book is Psalms.
J. Ezra 7:21 contains all the letters of the alphabet except 'J'.
K. Esther 8:9 is the longest verse in the Bible.
L. John 11:35 is the shortest verse in the Bible.
M. The Bible is translated into a fifth grade reading level.
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The Holy Bible
The Holy Bible must have been
Inspired of God and not of men.
I could not, if I would, believe
That good men wrote it to deceive,
And bad men could not if they would,
And surely would not if they could
Proceed to write a Book so good.
And certainly no crazy man
Could e'er conceive its wondrous plan,
And pray, what other kind of men
Than do these three groups comprehend?
Hence it must be that God inspired
The Word which souls of Prophets fired.
" O Lord, I am not worthy, I am not fit, that Thou shouldest come under
the roof of my soul; for it is all desolate and ruined; nor hast Thou in
me fitting place to lay Thy head. Lamb of God, that takest away the sin
of the world, take away the sin of me
Taken from 'The Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrews' one of the King
James Version translators.
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V. Tracing the Bible
GOOD KJB
-150 AD Lucian - First man to compile N.T. "School o the Scriptures"
-Copies were made by Waldensians
-1500 - Press was invented
-Erasmus wanted to provide a good Greek text
-He put out five copies.
-The translators used Erasmus' copy.
-KJB
-July 22, 1604 - King James announced his choosing of 54 men.
-Three years after being commissioned, the men did nothing but pray.
-In 1611 there were no guidelines for spelling or punctuation.
English was at its height.
-Editions -( never changing a word, just correcting spelling and punctuation)
-Edit - To prepare for publication.
-Revision - To look over and correct.
-1611
-1613
-1617
-1629
-1638
-1743
-1769 - Final Edition
-There have been six editions to the one.
-6+1=7 (Psa. 12:7) Purified seven times.
BAD BIBLES
-Pantaeius - Founded A Catechetical School in 1 A.D. in Alexandria.
-Taught for twenty years.
-Taught humanistic philosophy.
-Collected corrupt manuscripts to teach his students that the Scriptures were not infallible.
-Clement - Took over the school.
-Worked very hard at collecting corrupted manuscripts.
-Taught his students that the Bible was full errors.
-Denied the deity of Christ.
-Laughed at the miracles of Christ.
-Adamantus Origen - 230 A.D. - Took over the school.
-Wrote Greek Hexipla -- Greek Hexipla
-Most influential leader of his time.
-He changed words which did not agree with his doctrine.
-He said Jesus was a created God.
-Eusebius - Followed Origen.
-Constantine's false prophet
-Constantine ordered him to write a Bible that the people would love.
-Jerome - Used Eusebius' Bible to put together a Catholic Bible.
-1546 - Catholic church put the Apocrypha in the Bible.
-Brook Westcott/Fenton Hort - Worked on a text for thirty years.
-Took out 8,000 words from the greek text
-Used corrupted texts of Alexandria.
-They were unpatriotic.
-They were Catholic compromisers.
-They did not believe in the infallibility of the Scriptures.
-They consulted and contacted the dead.
-These men were not saved.
-English Revised Version- 1881
-American standard Version- 1901
-Revised standard Version- 1952
-Living Bible- 1971
-Phillips New Testament- 1972
-New International Bible- 1973
-Good News Bible- 1976
-New American Standard- 1977
-Derivative Copyright Law -- Substantial Changes
-There are only 40 words considered "Archaic."
-Diminish - lessen or make smaller
Some say - to make easier to understand.
Deut 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Deut 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Jer 26:2 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
The NIV has 64,000 words missing or 1/10. It is not a complete Bible.
This is what they omit
"Lord", is omitted 31 times
omits Hell - 30 times note - There is no word like "Hell."
They try to separate, "JESUS" from "CHRIST" - 42 times
John 1:14&18 - One and Only -- God could be feminine
Changes they made for an, "easier understanding."
Rose up to play - Indulge in Revelry
Told - Conscripted
Old - Obsolete
Called - Designated
Smell - Savor
House - Habitation
Man - Mortal
Old - Elderly
Straight is the way - Difficult is the way
Reading levels of the New Bibles
NKJV - 6.9 KJV - 5.8 NIV - 8.2
The NKJV claims the same greek text but differs 2,000 times in the New Testament alone.
The NKJV takes out:
Lord - 66 times
God - 51
Heaven - 50
Repent - 44
Blood - 23
Hell - 22 and they change it to HADES which inclines to a 3rd place or PURGATORY.
NKJV eliminates: JEHOVAH, NEW TESTAMENT, DAMNATION, DAMNED, DEVILS
Jehovah’s Witness similarities
Acts 3:13 His Son Jesus - His servant Jesus
Acts 3:26 Son - Servant
Acts 4:27 Child - Servant
Mark 2:15 omit "name"
Acts 7:45 Jesus - Joshua
II Thess 3:5 Removes "Patience" and "waiting"
No Comfortor but instead a Helper
Faith is changed to faithfulness
Matt 6:10 - "As above, so below" this comes from occultic culture
The Jesus Seminar - If you think you have everything in your Bible you are mistaken.
They want to omit Revelation and put in, "The Book of Hermes."
Take the name - Give up to the Beast - Take the mark of the Beast - Kill those not receiving the mark
The Dead Sea Scrolls are not good - They have an Ascenes background which was a group of people who were not saved.
Teach 2 Messiahs - People who do not take the NAME must be imprissoned for 7 years
Confiscation of personal property
Los Alamos Labratories
Positive Identification chip
Digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls
The New Bibles are Inclusive or they get rid of Christian distinctives therefore have a general, secular, watered down doctrine that can apply to every one.
Martin Woodstra of Evangelicals Concerned said there is nothing censuring the Homosexual in the NKJV
In the NIV God is missing 468 times = Matt 6:33; Rom 15:19; Matt 22:30; Mark 1:14
The NIV shows a Mean Obstinate God
Eph 6:4 Discipline
I Cor 12:21 Humiliate
Titus Mercy is removed
If you use the New Bibles in anything, books or giving the gospel or preaching, the maximum usable amount without Permission is 200 words
Rupert Murdock - Owns printing rights to the NIV
Zondervan Harper Collins Fox T.V. 20th Century Fox Movies T. V. Guide Bart Simpson
Chicago Tribune writer calls Rupert Murdock, "The Prince of Darkness."
Mark 10:24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
John 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
Matt 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
"Age" - you get a new Christ at the end of every age.
1 Cor 5:7 For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1 Pet 4:1 For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm
Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood,
Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;
II Jn 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. ........
Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Gal 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
1 Tim 2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
VI. Reading Your Bible
A. Read the Bible aloud.
Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
B. Pray first.
Ps 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Ps 119:73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
C. God wants to think with you.
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
D. God commands us to read the Bible.
1. Isa 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
2. John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
3. You are to gather bread every day.
Exod 16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
E. God says He will bless us if we read the Bible.
1.
Rev 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
2.
Rev 22:7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
F. You are told to read the word of God but you are not told how much to read.
However, you are told to meditate in the Word of God day and night.
Josh 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Ps 1:2-3 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Ps 119:97 O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
VII. The Bible is God's Word
A. This means that it is not man's word.
B. This means that every word of the Bible proceeded from the mouth of God.
1. Luke 5:1 And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,
2. Matt 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
3. Deut 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
C. The Bible is pure.
1. Prov 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
2.
Ps 119:140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
D. The Bible is preserved (or kept pure) by God, not man.
1.
Ps 12:6-7 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
2. Matt 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
3.
2 Sam 22:31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him
4.
Ps 19:8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
VIII. One of the Names of Jesus is, "The Word of God"
A. Rev 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
B.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
C.
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
D. The closest you will be to Jesus until He comes again to receive us unto Himself, is when you read the Word of God.
E. Your attitude toward the Bible and your Relationship with it is a direct picture of your attitude and relationship toward Jesus.
1. Jesus is the Living Word.
2. Jesus is the Written Word.
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