Logic Must Prove the King James Bible
by Dr. Jack
Hyles
"LOGIC MUST PROVE THE KING JAMES BIBLE"
By Dr. Jack Hyles
A sermon preached in the First Baptist Church of
Hammond, Indiana, by Dr. Jack Hyles in the Sunday evening service on April
8, 1984.
Dr. Jack Hyles is pastor of First Baptist
Church, Hammond, Indiana (The largest church in America).
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"LOGIC MUST PROVE THE KING JAMES BIBLE"
Matthew 24:35, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but
my words shall not pass away."
I'm not attacking the Catholic church tonight. I'm not
a Catholic. Maybe you noticed the sign out in front of our church that says,
"First Baptist." I never think I'm being unkind if I have the same thing on
the inside that we have on the outside. I want you to listen carefully. I'm
going to state some facts about the Catholic church. They are facts; they
are not railing accusations. They are facts, and any Catholic who is honest
will tell you that what I'm going to say is true about the Catholic church.
It is not a matter of my making false accusations; it's a matter of record.
I am also going to say some things about the
charismatics tonight. I'm more Catholic than I am charismatic. I've got more
respect for the pope than I do the P.T.L. Club, and I mean that. However, my
respect for the pope is not really soaring! Don't get mad now. I want to
help you. I'm simply saying that I'm going to give you some facts. I'm going
to give some facts about the charismatics, and if a charismatic is honest,
he will agree with the facts I'm going to give. There will be no
accusations, no gossip and no slander; I will just give facts that any
charismatic would give.
Also, I'm going to say some things tonight about
Protestantism. In fact, I may not miss anybody tonight. Everything I say
will be factual. I will be the kind of thing with which even the people
about whom I speak will agree. So I want you to listen. With the battle
raging as it is about the King James Bible, I think that any pastor ought to
alert his people.
When I was a boy, from the time I remember-- I
remember back when I was two and three years of age-- until I went into the
paratroopers in World War II when I was 18, my mother would read to me for
30 minutes every night from the Bible. Then she would hold it up and say,
"This is the Word of God!" She did not say, "The manuscripts from which we
got this are the Word of God." My mom didn't even know what a manuscript
was. She just knew she had a Book that was the Word of God. That's all she
knew. So, she said, "This is the Word of God." I would look at it, and I
would have to say three times, "Mama, the Bible is the Word of God. The
Bible is the Word of God. The Bible is the Word of God."
I have Mama's Bible-- the same one she read-- in my
office. I've had it there for years. I don't know how old it is, but I
suspect it is 55 or 60 years old. It is the same Bible she used to hold up.
I was thumbing through it the other day. On the inside, it says on the title
page, "King James Bible." That's what it says. You know it worked. It's
amazing how well Mama did before she found out that it wasn't the Word of
God.
I've been going to Baptist churches for 51 years.
Every pastor I've ever had preached from the King James Bible. He always
said to the crowd, "Open your Bibles and let's hear what the Lord says."
These pastors were not unfortunate enough to have sat at the feet of those
with lower education-- which calls itself "higher education."
It is amazing how well this nation did when we didn't
know how ignorant we were. (Are you listening?) This is my fifth pastorate.
I've seen miracles in my pastorates. I've preached over 41,000 times, and
I've never yet preached a sermon that wasn't preached from the King James
Bible. I really don't know what I've missed. To be quite frank with you,
I've seen fellows who preach from other Bibles, and I somehow get the idea
THEY are missing something. Dr. Evans, I've never seen a fellow really whoop
it up about any other Bible. I've never heard a fellow say, "Blessed be God,
let's look in the Book. Let's look in the Douay Version."
Did you ever go to mass and have the priest get up and
say, "Hallelujah for the Word of God!" Don't get mad at me! I'm telling the
truth. If you don't believe it, go next Sunday and see. He will usually use
that prayer book and not a Bible.
Follow me. I've taught you about the textus receptus,
Wescott and Hort, those manuscripts from which came the Douay Version that
the Catholics use and the American Standard Version, which is highly
overrated. The Wescott and Hort manuscripts came from the Vatican
manuscripts that were hidden in the Vatican for years-- from whence came the
Catholic Bible.
The textus receptus manuscripts are those from which
we have gotten the King James, and they have been the evangelistic
manuscripts, if you please. I won't go into that. I'm a textus receptus man.
I haven't got a bit of patience with Wescott and Hort. Not a bit! In fact, I
really have a hard time not being bitter against my Greek professors in
college who taught me from Wescott and Hort Greek manuscripts. It upsets me
greatly.
This is the message. The question at hand is this:
Where is the final authority for church building and for Christian living?
There are four different final authorities in American Christendom. I'm not
talking about Mormonism and those who have other books. I'm talking about
Christendom. There are four basic final authorities.
1. SOME VIEW THE CHURCH AS THE FINAL AUTHORITY. This
is fact. Any honest Catholic priest will tell you that the Catholic position
on the final authority is that the church has final authority. If you want
to go a little farther than that, if the pope speaks ex cathedra, he is the
final authority. Ask any Catholic or read any Catholic doctrine, and both
will tell you that. I'm not trying to be critical. I'm telling you the
truth. If a Catholic priest were standing here, he'd tell you the same
thing.
Our Catholic friends believe that the church is the
final authority. If the pope speaks ex cathedra, that's God speaking. I'm
not being critical; I'm being factual. There is a second final authority.
2. SOME VIEW EXPERIENCE AS THE FINAL AUTHORITY. In
other words, "It happened to me, so it's true. I was there when it happened,
and I ought to know. I had an experience. I saw Jesus. I saw a vision. I
have a word of knowledge." This is the charismatic position. Ask them. They
will say, "I have a message from God, so this is God talking. God gave me a
message." (The foolish thing about that is, if that is true, you had better
start writing more Bible.)
When this happens, people believe the final authority
comes from experience. God has supposedly given someone a message. Someone
talks in tongues, and somebody else interprets what God said. However, the
truth is, all that God has ever said to man is right here in this Book. This
is it. This is God's complete revelation to man!
By the way, that is the basis of the whole thing: What
is the final authority? There has to be some place, ladies and gentlemen,
where we can say, "This is it, and what this says is the final word." So,
our Catholic friends say the church is the final authority. Our charismatic
friends go beyond the Bible and say human experience is the final authority.
3. SOME VIEW HUMAN REASONING AS THE FINAL AUTHORITY.
That's what liberal people say. "Every man is searching for the truth, and
every man gets a portion of it; so, nobody is wrong, and nobody is right. We
are all searching, so it doesn't seem to me that God would make a Hell;
therefore, there is no Hell. It doesn't make sense to me that God would let
anybody go to Hell, so God wouldn't let anybody go to Hell. It doesn't make
sense to me that God would regenerate anybody, so there is no such thing as
regeneration." That's what most of our Protestant friends believe, and all
the humanist crowd believes it. That's what the liberal believes. That's
what 95% of all the people in the seminaries in America believe. That's what
95% of all the faculty and students in religious colleges in America
believe-- the final authority is the human mind or human reasoning.
The average Protestant church in Hammond believes
that. "I don't see how there could be a place with golden streets. If I
don't see how there could be, there isn't one." That is idolatry in its most
pagan form. "My mind is my God. What I can't conceive of, I won't believe.
What I can't understand, I won't accept. So, I'll trim the Bible down to fit
what I can believe. I just can't believe there is a God of wrath, so there
is no God of wrath."
All right, we have the first three answers to the
question, "What is the final authority?" The church is, according to our
Catholic friends. Human experience is, according to our charismatic friends.
Human reasoning is, according to our liberal and Protestant friends.
4. SOME VIEW THE BIBLE AS THE FINAL AUTHORITY. Every
church in America in Christendom who had services this morning had a
preacher who stood up and preached what he believed. He either preached that
he believed that the final authority is the church, or that the final
authority is human experience, or that the final authority is human
reasoning, or that the final authority is the Bible.
The only authority that we as independent Baptists
believe is the Bible. There was a day when I could say Baptists, but the
truth is, most of the Southern Baptist colleges and seminaries are staffed
by professors who don't believe that the Bible is the final authority. I may
as well say it all. There's not a single Southern Baptist college or
seminary to which I'd recommend anybody to go any more. None! I went to a
Southern Baptist college and seminary. Thirty-five years ago, I heard a
professor in my seminary say that he didn't believe the resurrection. He
said that the resurrection was a bunch of blindfolded spirits in a vacuum.
He said it. I was there. Think what they are saying now!
Consequently, independent Baptists believe that the
only final authority for practice and doctrine of the Christian and the
church is the Bible. I cannot speak ex cathedra. I cannot speak and say,
"This is truth." All I can say is, "The Bible is truth." You see, I can't
say, "I'm going to speak now, and this is God speaking through me." I don't
much like people to pray, "Dear God, put the words in the mouth of our
preacher." I think you can say, "Lead our preacher"; but if God puts the
words in my mouth, we'd have more Bible.
See, I have no power in this church but the power of
influence. Sometimes I wish I had more. Sometimes I wish I had power to make
you ladies dress like I think you ought to dress. Sometimes I wish I had the
power to make you adults have rules about your teenagers that I think you
ought to have, but all I can do is influence you. I have no power.
Officially, I have one vote in this church; that's all. I have no vote at
deacon's meeting and one vote as a member of this church. The only power I
have is my vote and the power of influence.
It was a good day for me when I decided that I was
going to make my final authority the Word of God. I was taught in Southern
Baptist schools to believe that the Southern Baptist program was it. One day
I decided to just read my Bible and reorganize my church. I did. I decided
to get the book of Acts and read it word for word to see what the New
Testament church was all about. I cast aside all the tradition I had been
taught, all the jargon I had been taught, all the catechisms to which I had
been taught to swear allegiance, and I decided I was going to try to find
out what kind of church the New Testament church really was.
Dr. Curtis Hutson gave the best compliment to First
Baptist Church of Hammond that has ever been given in the SWORD OF THE LORD.
He said that he was here for Pastors' School. He told how many conversions
and baptisms we had the Sunday before. Then he said, "If God were writing
the book of Acts today, He would write about the First Baptist Church of
Hammond." That's the ultimate compliment.
You see, I decided that I was going to get my Bible
down and decide what I thought the New Testament church was scripturally;
then, that's what I was going to have in my church. I believe with all of my
soul that the First Baptist Church of Hammond is as near as is humanly
possible to being what the church in Jerusalem was 2,000 years ago. Where
did I get that? I got it from the Bible. Do you know why we are scattered
abroad winning souls all over this area? It's because the church in
Jerusalem was "scattered abroad," and they "went every where preaching the
word." (Acts 8:4) Do you know why we go house to house, knocking on doors?
We do it because it says in Acts 5:42, "And daily in the temple, and in
every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ." We do it
because that's what they did in the Bible.
Somebody says, "Well, we have different kinds of
churches. You have a soul-winning church, and we have a deeper-life church."
In the first place, it's a lie. There's no life as deep as a soul-winning
life. However, they say, "We just have different kinds of churches." No, we
don't. WE have a church, and you don't! Brother, the Bible is our charter to
exist. If the Bible is not your final authority in practice and doctrine,
then you are not a church. You might have the word "church" on the outside,
but you are not a church.
Since the Word of God is our authority,-- hear me
carefully-- we simply must have it. That's a profound statement. We've got
to have it! I mean, shall we have an authority we can't find? Would God tell
us His Word is the final authority and leave us without His Word? We must
have a copy or we may as well join our Catholic friends and let the church
be the basis for truth. If we have no Word of God, and if the Bible is not
the Word of God, then we have only three other alternatives. We've got to
say the final authority will be the church, or human experience, or human
reasoning.
I'm saying, if we have no Bible that is the Word of
God, then we have no way to go to the Book for the final authority. If one
word in this Bible is not true, we don't know which one it is; so, once
again, the mind of man or experience or the church is going to have to
decide which one is true and which one is not true. If we are going to
believe that the Word of God is the final authority, we've got to have a
copy of it.
Let me ask you a question. Would God call a man to
preach His Word and not give it to him? God calls a man and says, "I'm
calling you. Spend you life preaching the Gospel. Preach the Word!" So,
wouldn't He give him a copy of His Word?
I've said this so often, and I'll say it again and
again. I would step down from behind this pulpit tonight and never walk in
it again to preach if I didn't have the Word of God in my hand. I would not
waste your time nor take your money unless I could say to you, "You have the
Word of God. I have it, and it is preached here." I'm an honest man. This is
what I've said before, and I'll say it again. If I did not believe that the
Book I hold in my hand tonight was God's Word, I'd find out where it was.
I'd go there and get a copy, print some copies for you and give you a copy.
I mean, brother, if we don't have the Word of God in our hands, we have no
place to go except to the human mind, human experience or the collective
human mind which is the church. God would not reach down and give a divine
call to a man and say, "I call you to preach My Word, but there is no copy
of it any more."
I don't like a statement of faith that says, "We
believe the Bible is the Word of God in the original manuscripts." In the
first place, there are no original manuscripts anywhere in the world
tonight. None! If the Word of God was only the original manuscripts, there
is no Word of God available for mankind today. If I did not believe the
Bible I hold in my hand was the Word of God, and I believed there were some
manuscripts, I'd get on an airplane, fly to where they were, break in the
building if I had to, get the original manuscripts, make copies of them and
give you a copy. I'm not going to stand here as an imposter preaching a Book
that is not the Word of God and giving you instructions on how to live from
a Book that is not the Word of God! I'm not going to do it! I'm just not
going to do it!.
Would God tell His people to live by the Word and not
give it to them? Let me say this. Of all the nations on the face of this
earth, America is the center of world evangelization. America is the only
hope for the world to have the Gospel. Do you think that God would not give
His Word to America? The countries of this world look to America for
missionaries. They look to America for preachers. Every great movement of
God in the world today was founded by a ministry or movement that was
propelled by American evangelization. The mission movement was founded
basically, by Hudson Taylor. Now, wait a minute. Of all the nations on the
face of this earth, it just seems to me that God would give the key nation
the Word of God.
Check the history of Christianity in America, and see
how well we've done without all these extra Bibles. Check the history of the
church in America from 1950 back, before every little preacher had the
misfortune to sit at the feet of a college theologian. Do you know what? We
won't have people who are just theologians teaching Bible at Hyles-Anderson
College. Every teacher of Bible at Hyles-Anderson College is a preacher. We
won't hire a theologian. No way! You say, "Are you opposed to theologians?"
No, I'm just leery and wary of them. I am wary of those who dare to sit in
judgment on the Bible. Brother, it seems to me if there is any place in the
world where you ought to have your faith in the Bible stabilized, it's a
Christian college or Christian seminary. However, the truth is, that's where
you get your faith shaken.
That's one reason why some things bother me. It
bothers me when people say, "We believe that the Bible, in the original
manuscripts, is the Word of God." If that's true, we have no Bible. Did you
hear what I said? We have no Bible. One day they did, but WE don't.
Dr. Ed Hindson of Liberty Baptist College said
concerning I John 5:7, "Thus, according to John's account here, 'there are
three that bear record in heaven.' The rest of verse 7 and the first nine
words of verse 8 are not in the original and are not to be considered as
part of the Word of God." I'd like to ask Mr. Hindson a question: "When did
you see the original?" How does he know they are not in the original? Look
at me now. How does he know? The only way an honest man can say they are not
in the original manuscripts is to have seen them, and they are not
available. Now, he could say they are not in some of the manuscripts that
are considered the most ancient. I personally think he was saying that they
are not in the Wescott and Hort. I can't prove that.
Before I get too rough on him, look at your Scofield
Bible in I John 5:7, the verse Dr. Hindson quoted. Folks, I have no axes to
grind. I have nobody's feelings to hurt. I've just got to have the Word of
God; that's all. I've got to have it! The Bible says the Word of God is what
we are supposed to preach. The Bible says, "Preach the Word."
Now, look at your Scofield Bible-- I John 5:7, "For
there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the
Holy Ghost: and these three are one." Now look at that little "o" there in
front of verse 7. Look in the center reference, and find the "o". Mr.
Scofield says, "It is generally agreed that v. 7 has no real authority, and
has been inserted."
I'd like to ask Mr. Scofield when he saw the original.
He never saw it. Somebody who thought he was intellectual told that to
somebody who thought he was intellectual who told somebody who thought he
was intellectual. Listen, we don't want the intellectual community to think
of us as being nincompoops, but I'd rather have a nincompoop with a
revelation from God than to have an intellectual without a revelation from
God.
We've got to have a final authority! If this Book is
not true, then the church or human reasoning or human experience is the
final authority. Listen! There are only two-- God and man. If God is not the
final authority, man is the final authority. If we have no final authority
in a book, then man has got to discern what God says; if man discerns what
God says, then man becomes the final authority instead of God. So, Mr.
Scofield had problems the day he came to this verse. How does he know? Pray
tell me, what in the world he could have ever seen that would make him say
that? He didn't see anything. He sat in somebody's Bible class and some Dr.
Mess-'em-Up or Dr. McFuddle or Dr. Broad Stomach stood up and said, "Well,
in the original manuscript..." which sounds scholarly; but nobody in our
generation has seen them. Dr. So-and-So hasn't seen them, the professor in
the seminary hasn't seen them and the college Bible professor hasn't seen
them. Either what I hold in my hand is the Word of God, or we don't have any
Word of God. I don't believe God would leave us without His Word. I don't
believe that. I JUST DON'T BELIEVE IT!
We need a Bible that we can understand and a Bible
that is God's Word. It looks like anybody would agree that if God gives us
the command to preach the Word, He would give us the Word to preach. That's
logical. If God wants to say to a nation, "You are the custodian of world
evangelization for a generation or two or three or four," it looks like God
would give that nation the Word of God.
What is it? I would say it ought to be the one that
has worked. Which one has worked? The one I hold in my hand right now. I has
worked! It will work!
I'd like to say the same to our friends in the
charismatic movement. You say, "Why do you stress it?" I stress it because
the charismatic crowd is trying to teach our crowd every day that they've
got something we don't have. Tonight, before I walked into this pulpit, one
of our fine ladies came and told me of one of our men who has been swept
aside. One of our good faithful men has been swept aside by the charismatic
crowd. As pastor of this church, it is my job to warn you of wolves who are
dressed like sheep.
If we don't have a Bible that's the Word of God, we've
got to go to human reasoning. If God says to a church, "Build your church on
My Word," God's got to give us His Word. Listen, God wouldn't be God is He
told us to do something we couldn't do. Everything that God has ever
commanded us to do, He has given us the wherewithal to obey that
commandment. God has never commanded man to do anything that was
unreasonable or impossible for man to do. When God calls a man to preach and
says, "Preach the Word," God would have to give him a Word to preach. If God
says to a church, "Build your church on My Word," to be God, He's got to
give that church the Word of God.
Our Methodists seminaries say, "It's not verbally
inspired." There was a day when John Wesley started that movement. He said
the Bible was inspired, and they had the fire back in those days!
The Presbyterian seminaries say, "The Bible is not the
Word of God," but John Calvin believed it, and they had the fire! John Knox
and others believed it!
I'm saying that we've either go to admit this is the
Word of God or we have to flee to the church, or to human reasoning or human
experience as being the final authority. If there is no Word of God today,
we have no other recourse. If God has not given us His Word, we have to
decide what is God's Word. That's human reasoning.
By the way, basing a doctrine on human experience is
idolatry. Basing a doctrine on the church being the final authority is
idolatry. The church is the idol. Letting the pope speak ex cathedra and
saying that it is God Who is speaking is idolatry. You're making him as God.
Human reasoning says that what we can reason, we'll
believe. That's idolatry. So the truth is, you've got one choice of two.
Either this Bible is the Word of God or we have no other place to turn but
to idolatry. Did you hear me? Either this is the Word of God, or there is no
place to turn but idolatry. Our three choices are human reasoning, human
experience or the church, and they are each a form of idolatry. They are all
three the same because making the church the final authority is done so by
human reasoning. That means Catholicism is humanism, and the charismatic
movement is humanism. It is man saying, "I was there. I felt it. God spoke,
and here's what He said." That's human reasoning. It's humanism. So either
this is the Word of God, or there is nothing left but humanism.
I'll tell you this. To whatever degree this Book is
not believed, that society has the exact proportionate belief in humanism
because there are only two choices available: God and man. If God hasn't
told us what to do, man has got to tell us what to do. When a country does
not believe this Book, it is totally humanistic. When a country leans away
from this Book, it leans toward humanism. When a country is divided about
this Book, it is divided about humanism.
I just don't believe that God would say, "Go ye into
all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature," (Mark 16:15) and
not give us His Word to take with us. I just don't believe that God would
say, "Train up a child in the way he should go," (Proverbs 22:6) and write
the words of God "upon the door posts of thine house," (Deuteronomy 11:20)
and "teach them your children," (Deuteronomy 11:19) unless there were a Word
of God.
I don't think God would say, "Start a Bible college.
Send out young men to proclaim the truth," unless God had given us the
truth. I just don't believe that God would send young men to the mission
fields without the Word of God. I don't think God would send Rick Martin
halfway around the world to proclaim His Word without giving him a copy of
it. I don't think God would send young men out from this church to build
soul-winning churches without giving them His Word.
With all of my soul, I believe that the final
authority for faith and practice for a church and for a life is the Word of
God. I do not believe that I'm the final authority; nor the bishops or the
cardinals-- nor are the Cubs or the White Sox!
Not long ago, then there was no pope, a fellow said,
"I think Ernie Banks ought to be the next pope." "Why?" "Well, the Cardinals
have had it long enough. It's time the Cubs got to have a pope!"
I'm not the final authority. "El papa" is not the
final authority. He can wave his magic wand all he wants to. He can rustle
his skirts all over the country. I'm simply saying, the Bible is the final
authority, not man. I don't care what he is called, it is not man!
You say, "You're criticizing the pope." Whatever I've
said about pope, I've said about me. FIRST I said, I'M NOT the final
authority. THEN I said, "HE'S NOT the final authority." So our people have
as much right to get mad as you Catholics do. Mr. Oral Roberts is not the
final authority. The Bible is the final authority. I just don't believe God
would leave us down here without a copy of His Word.
How can we know which is the real Bible? Well, you can
scratch off the Revised Standard Version because the liberals put that one
together. You can scratch off any Bible that came from Wescott and Hort
because that comes from the Vatican manuscripts. I'd suggest you find the
one that has worked.
Find the one that widows have read; find the one over
which they've wept and prayed for their children. Find the one that dear
mothers in the history of our country have read, loved and taught. Find the
one for which faithful evangelists have given their lives and for which
missionaries have circled the globe. Find the one that has caused people to
leave home, family and friends to carry its message. Find it! Find the one
Dwight Moody used. Find out which one Billy Sunday used. Find the one the
great soul-winning churches in America use.
Find the one tested by time. Find the one that Adolph
Hitler said he would destroy, but couldn't! Find the one about which Thomas
Paine spoke when he said, "Within one generation, the Bible will not be
printed anymore." However, as soon as he died, the same printing press on
which he printed that garbage was used to print more Bibles. Find the one
they can't destroy. Find the one that has stood the test of time. Find the
one that liberals have tried to destroy, Hitlers have tried to burn,
Mussolinis have tried to outlaw and Khrushchevs and Stalins have tried to
burn! Find it! The Bible says, "My words shall not pass away." (Matthew
24:35) Find the one that has stood the test of time!
Don't find one that has a hippie on the outside of it
and bunch of hippie jargon on the inside of it. Find the one that has stood
the test of time! You say, "I don't understand those 'thees' and 'thous.'"
"Thee" means "you." "Thou" means "you." "I" means "me." "We" means "us." You
know it, and you know you know it! Not only that, but the Holy Spirit of God
lives inside of you, and He's the author of this Book. If you can't
understand a part of it, ask Him to teach you, and He will do it. He wrote
it! We've got to have a Bible! We have got to have a Bible!
You say, "Boy, that's right. I'll tell you what, I
believe it from cover to cover." Try OPENING the covers. "Boy, I believe
every word of it." QUOTE a few of them! If we had Scripture quoting tonight,
we've got Sunday school teachers here who know only, "Jesus wept," and if
somebody said that verse before your turn came, you'd say, "He got mine."
Read it! Memorize it! Study it! Love it! Teach it! Preach it! Live in it!
It's the Word of God! You can depend on it.
Every jot and every tittle shall come to pass. Not one
comma and not one punctuation mark shall pass away. Matthew 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." Matthew 24:35,
"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." I
checked those words, "pass away," a little bit; a synonym for that phrase
would be, "My word will always be alive." There never will be a day when
somebody says, "Beloved, we are gathered here in the presence of 'Gawd' and
these witnesses to remember the word of 'Gawd' that died." We never will! It
will always be there. It always will.
I can't believe that God would give us a great
commission and tell us to teach it, preach it and spread it, and not give us
the truth to teach and preach and spread.
It was good for our fathers;
It was good for our fathers;
It was good for our fathers;
And it's good enough for me;
It was good for my mama;
It was good for my mama;
It was good for my mama;
And it's good enough for me.
Let us pray.
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