People treat King James Only as if it's a disease.
But it's not a disease.
It's one thing the Christian has been hoping for: FAITH!
It is faith-producing.
It is faith-encouraging.
It is faith-bolstering.
It is faith-increasing.
It is having one resource to turn to, where you know it's 100% right.
And when properly and prayerfully understood,
it will never steer you wrong.
So how does it help, practically, for an English speaker
to trust the King James Only?
Would you like me to tell you some of the ways?
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications.
A brother in Christ came home from a church yesterday, frustrated.
At one point in the sermon, the pastor had said,
"This is a poor translation.
A better translation would be..."
"According to who?!" he said to himself.
Others around him turned in their seats
and looked at him.
He had said it a little louder than he thought!
Well, maybe that planted a seed.
If I say, "a better translation would be,"
I have decided to judge, not from one authority,
but among many authorities.
But if I am judging among the authorities
which one I think is best, I am standing
above the authorities, aren't I?
So what am I trusting?
My own wisdom!
I don't want to trust my own wisdom.
That is why I want God's wisdom.
And to have God's wisdom I need to have God's words.
Only God's words will give me God's understanding and wisdom.
Only God's words have God's seal of approval on them.
It only makes sense, right?
So I don't want a Jesus in my back pocket
and a mess of Bibles under my feet.
I don't want to stand OVER the word, to judge it.
I want to stand UNDER my God, and have His words judge OVER me.
That is why I'm King James Only.
I only want God's words.
And only the King James Bible in English
has the textual history, and the track record.
There are the King James Bible and the contenders
who desire to take its place.
But this isn't the Bible Olympics.
There are no Gold, Silver and Bronze medal Bibles.
There is simply the Bible, that is God's words
in a given language.
And there are the other ones, that are not God's words.
It's as simple as that.
It doesn't matter if it's 50%, 10% or 1% man's words.
If it's man's words, it's no longer God's words.
So then, how can we
have faith in God's words if our Bible contains a mixture
of man's words and Gods words?
How could you know which of them is which?
Trusting any of man's words would mean we have placed our trust
in fallible man.
The Bible in English, the King James Bible,
has been tried, tested and proved for over 400 years.
It has a track record of producing in faithful,
prayerful people what God says in the Bible
he wants to produce: good fruit.
When I did what I told you about 2 or 3 years ago,
and read one chapter of Proverbs a day (there are 31 days
in the longer months, and 31 chapters in Proverbs),
and did it prayerfully, it changed my life.
It kept me out of some big problems.
Proverbs 6:1-5 says you must not be
"surety for thy friend," or have "stricken thy hand
with a stranger."
Just one implication of this is "don't co-sign with anyone."
Don't put yourself in the position that you pay if he or she doesn't.
That's not man's words.
That's God's words.
My finances were protected at a crucial time.
Proverbs 18:1 says, 1 "Through desire a man,
having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth
with all wisdom."
"Intermeddle" here means to interfere with what God says is wise.
Other Bibles don't say that, by the way.
But what I learned was to watch out for people
who separate from the rest for a while, and then come back,
and suddenly change from wise teachings.
They change what God said to do, according to their own desire,
and start to claim more authority to themselves
and that they have no need of godly counselors.
Sometimes they even dismiss their own elders or deacons,
or select "Yes-men," instead.
There are pastor-teachers like that.
And more than a few cults have been started that way.
They get rid of sound counsel, just like King Rehoboam
dismissed Solomon's counselors for his own desires,
selecting his un-wise peers.
That's how Rehoboam lost the Northern Kingdom of Israel,
you know.
Check out 1 Kings 12 and 2 Chronicles 10.
Other Bibles say other things.
But the King James says it right, and it bears out in other scriptures.
That's another point about the King James over all the others.
It doesn't disagree from scripture to scripture.
And if you don't understand an idea, you can check similar scriptures,
to help you better understand.
Comparing scripture with scripture is called the "Analogy of Faith,"
by the way, and not "the Analogy of Doubt."
We trust, have faith in, all the scriptures,
so much that we know one scripture will
not contradict another, any more than God can contradict Himself.
Modern versions don't have that.
When you go from one verse to the next,
they say different things.
And their Bibles lower Christ and cause you to doubt the Godhead,
angels, devils, heaven, hell and start thinking that it's works
that get you saved, rather than works
that were made for you to please God
AFTER you have faith in Him and AFTER you are saved.
My Bible does this, and so much more.
I'm just getting started.
I have one source.
That one source, correctly and prayerfully understood
will never lead me wrong.
That one source, I am under and not over.
That one source does not leave other options
open to me.
If I choose to trust the King James only,
it cuts both ways.
I don't get it my way.
I get it God's way, which IS the high way.
Trusting only the King James Bible
has enabled me to question anyone who says anything contrary to it.
I HAVE A STANDARD!
Can you imagine a group of people trying to build a building,
if everyone measured a foot by his or her own foot size?
No one would have the same measurement!
Nothing would fit together!
That is what it's like trying to build up one another,
or a pastor his congregation, with a multitude of Bibles,
or even one, with a mixture of man's words with God's words.
If you don't have God's one pure measurement,
then how can you fit a building together
the way God wants?
And it's the same when the pastor or teacher says,
"a better reading would be..."
He has introduced a yardstick based on his own foot size!
It will never measure up to what God wants.
That doesn't bring growth, Brothers and Sisters.
It brings confusion.
The four downward steps that Satan set down
in the garden of Eden are in almost every Bible college
and seminary, and most of the churches:
1. Confusion -- "Yea, hath God said?"
"Did God say it, or not?"
"I'm not really sure what that verse says."
2. Doubt -- "I'm no longer sure
that that teaching is in the Bible."
3. Disbelief -- I don't think
God said anything about that."
4. Rebellion -- "I'm gonna just decide for myself
what I like the best, and I'll go my own way."
The only step up is FAITH in God's words.
I want to step up.
I want to grow in faith.
But to have that, you need God's words,
and only God's words.
So in English, I'm staying with the
400 plus years tried, tested and proved
King James-- only.
How about you?
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.