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(Psa 40:7) Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Theme:
What is the fundamental problem with many “Christians” today?
It is a failure to believe that a Holy God exists.
That He hates sin.
That He will judge the sinner.
That He made provision through a miraculous plan for the redemption of that sinner.
That the Atonement will free mankind of his sentence to Hell.
That the plan was laid out in eternity past.
That the plan was then given to mankind in words which God breathed to men who wrote them down as God wanted.
That God has preserved His words for you and I.
*Intro:*
With the prolifieration of all kinds of versions – how do you know which is truly His Word?
*The King James Version (1611)*
*American Standard Version (1901)** *
*Revised Standard Version (1952)*
*Amplified Bible: New Testament (@1958, 1987)*
*New Testament in Modern English (/?1947/, @1958, 1959, 1960)*
*New American Standard Bible (NASB- 1960,1962, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995) *
*Version Reina Valera (1960)** *
This Spanish language Protestant Bible is stylistically equivalent to the Revised Standard Version.
*Amplified Bible: Old Testament (@1965, 1987)*
*The New American Bible (1970)** *
*The New King James Version *
*Full Life Study Bible** *
*Rainbow Children’s Bible*
*Original African Heritage Bible*
*One Year Bible*
*Men’s Devotional Bible*
*New Adventure Bible*
*NIV Study Bible*
*Women’s Devotional Bible*
*Young Explorer’s Study Bible*
*Life Application Bible for Students*
*Spirit Filled Life Study Bible*
*Harper Collins Study Bible with Apocrypha*
*New **Oxford** Annotated Bible** *
*New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha*
*Parallel Reina-Valera (1960) and King James Version Bible*
*Parallel Reina-Valera (1960) and New International Version Bible*
*From Genesis to the Promised Land*
*English Standard Version*
The list actually goes on to include more than 300 versions since the publication of the King James Version 1611.
Not all of them are in print any more.
*Why is this important to us?*
Since yours and my salvation and eternal destiny depend on the declared Word, we must know for sure what we have in our hands tonight is from God.
We must be sure it is what He preserved for us down through the ages.
It should be pointed out that there never was a real question about the Hebrew text.
It was solidified at the time of Christ.
He quoted from it and thereby put God’s stamp of approval on the text in use during His time.
We know it today as the Masoretic Hebrew Text.
The question for many in the last few decades is whether we have all of the Greek text.
These critics have come to the forefront.
*A little background – not too much!*
During the 19th century we had intellectuals in science (evolution), in psychology (Freud) government (Karl Marx) and in theology (critics).
They seemingly grew fast after the introduction of evolution which occurred early in the 19th century.
These theological critics were mostly based in the higher learning centers of Germany.
Many of our preachers and professors of theology studied in these German schools.
That was where the universities were.
There weren’t that many in this country.
So the infection occurred of questioning the legitimacy of the texts that were in hand.
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*/So the first question is, who was the first critic?/*
*I. **Critics of the Word*
*a. **Jesus was not a critic*
* i.
**He quoted the Word*
(Luk 24:27) And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
* ii.
He verified the limits*
(Mat 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.
*iii.
He set the standard*
Joh 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Joh 17:6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
Joh 17:7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
Joh 17:8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
And answering the Saducee critics, Jesus said:
(Mat 22:29) Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
*b.
**Disciples were not critics.*
*i.
The remembered His Word*.
(Joh 2:17) And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
*ii.They believed His Word* (Joh 2:22) When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
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*c. **Paul was not a critic.*
Quoted OT passage regarding the Messiah providing verification for the Word – (Heb 10:7) Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
References Psalm 40:7
*d.
The critic revealed*.
*i.
His words* (Gen 3:1) Now the serpent was more subtle 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?
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His contradiction* Gen 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
*iii.
His distortion* (Gen 3:4) And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
*This is the Satanic attack.
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It was the primary effort to distort, destroy and disrupt the belief in the Words of God.
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