1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,280 or contact us at my libertybaptist.org or just look 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,760 us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,040 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:26,360 Well, today we're going to be talking about the New World 8 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,480 Translation as we continue our series looking at world 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,920 religions and cults. And of course, today or the last 10 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,000 few weeks we've been looking at the Jehovah Witnesses. 11 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,480 And with me today, I have a copy of the New World Translation. 12 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:41,400 Now I have this Bible, or rather I have this book, I think would 13 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,720 be a better way of calling it. I have this in my office. 14 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,080 I picked it up a few years ago at Savers, and I saw it there 15 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:49,640 for a couple of dollars. And I thought, you know what, 16 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,680 this would be a good thing to be able to have in my office. 17 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,560 Now, if you look at this and you look at your Bible, you'll see a 18 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,320 lot of similarities. Won't you see a leather cover? 19 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,720 It actually says Holy Scriptures right here on the front. 20 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,920 If you were to open it up, you'd find 66 books inside chapters 21 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:10,320 and verses. The font even looks exactly like 22 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:13,960 you would find in your Bible. There's a lot of similarities to 23 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,280 the Bible that you have in your hands to the New World 24 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,480 Translation of which I'm holding in my hand. 25 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,960 However, while those similarities might make you 26 00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:27,400 think that there is no difference between your King 27 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,840 James Bible and the New World Translation, the chasm couldn't 28 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:36,440 be any wider between what this book represents and the actual 29 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,640 Bible. While this may say Holy 30 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,200 Scriptures, this is not a copy of the Holy Scriptures. 31 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:46,880 And Jehovah Witnesses used this book, distorting the very basic 32 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,640 doctrines of the Word of God to be able to support those things 33 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,360 that they peddle, whether they're going door to door or 34 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,480 whether they have a rack of literature at any of the major 35 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,320 thoroughfares like we've talked about before. 36 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,720 Well, as it's been our tradition over the last few weeks, I enjoy 37 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,400 being able to take video to show to you to kind of help you 38 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,720 understand the mindset of one of these groups that we have talked 39 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:08,840 about. And again, the videos we've been 40 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,320 watching are not someone from the outside, but rather someone 41 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:14,240 who's on the inside. And again, this video that we'll 42 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:19,240 be watching today is from jw.org, and it is in reference 43 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,880 to the creation and then the propagation of the New World 44 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:24,920 Translation. Where did it come from? 45 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,800 How was it created? And I think that you'll see some 46 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,080 things that might set off some alarms in your mind. 47 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:32,440 And then we're going to talk about some of. 48 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,280 And then as we go along this morning, we're also going to 49 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,480 have you open your Bibles and compare verses that you see in 50 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,480 the Bible to the New World Translation to see why it's such 51 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,720 a major difference. So we'll go ahead and watch this 52 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:46,360 video and then we'll have some discussions. 53 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,840 So let's do it. In carrying out the Commission 54 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,480 to preach the good news of God's Kingdom, Jehovah's Witnesses 55 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,080 have published hundreds of books and distributed millions of. 56 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,720 Copies throughout the world. Of these, one particular book 57 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:03,640 stands above. All the rest. 58 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,760 This book has a long history and was the triumph. 59 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:12,000 Of years of research. The book we're talking about is 60 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,240 the New World Translation of the. 61 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,440 Holy Scriptures. It is a record of the. 62 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,840 Sacred writings of God and held by some to be among the best 63 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:25,840 translations of the. Bible ever produced but. 64 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,800 How did it come to be and what makes it important for those 65 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:34,080 interested in the? Truth about God by the. 66 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,640 Mid 19th century Bible translations into English were. 67 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,960 Readily available Charles Tays Russell used a. 68 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,560 Variety of Bibles in his. Research, he shared. 69 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:48,240 His suggestions with the readers of the magazine Zions Watchtower 70 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,360 writing in 1880, Russell recommended to other Bible 71 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,680 students the emphatic diaglot and versions done by Titsendorf 72 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:03,720 and the American Bible Union. By 1884, Russell along with 73 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:05,600 others interested in promoting Bible. 74 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,280 Education legally. Registered the Zions Watchtower 75 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,280 Tract Society. Zions Watchtower grew to become 76 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:14,760 a Bible. Distributor as a. 77 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,600 Service to its readers. The Society. 78 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,440 Drew attention to informative Bible translations, in fact. 79 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,040 They bought large. Quantities so as to get. 80 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,760 Good rates. And then made them available. 81 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:31,560 At greatly reduced cost. A Bible. 82 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,960 Student could purchase editions such as the King James Bible and 83 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:37,720 the so-called. Teachers, Bibles. 84 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:40,680 These were the. King James translation along 85 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,280 with the concordance maps and marginal references. 86 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:47,600 The emphatic. Dialogue. 87 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,320 It featured a Greek. To English interlinear rendering 88 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,960 Leiser's translation, it placed English text alongside the 89 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,120 Hebrew. Also the Newberry Bible, which 90 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,840 had marginal references that drew attention to the 91 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:07,400 occurrences of the divine name Jehovah in the original 92 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:12,600 language, and Tischendorf's New Testament it had footnote 93 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,120 references. That clarified the variations. 94 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:20,240 In Ancient Greek Bible Manuscripts, Zion's Watchtower 95 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,920 Society arranged for a special printing of the New Testament by 96 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,800 Joseph Rotherham. This was the first. 97 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,080 Time a Bible was published bearing the society name. 98 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,880 In 1896, the corporation legally changed its name to the 99 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,400 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. 100 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:44,280 This organization did not print and bind Bibles at that time. 101 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,760 Instead, it arranged with commercial firms to do that 102 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:51,280 work. However, it can be said that the 103 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:55,360 organization was an active publisher of Bible translations. 104 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,120 In time, the organization would take the production of Bible 105 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:05,080 translations into its own hands in December 1926. 106 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,840 The Watchtower. Printed and bound the Emphatic 107 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:10,360 Dyaglot in its Concorde St. factory. 108 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,880 It would be in 1942 when a complete Bible, the King James 109 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,480 with marginal references, was produced. 110 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,120 As useful as these various publications. 111 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,680 Were the organization was determined to convey. 112 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:32,560 God's Word in the. Best manner possible at Yankee 113 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:38,120 Stadium on Wednesday, August 2nd, 1950, then President of the 114 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,200 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Nathan Noor. 115 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:46,520 Revealed to the 82. 1075 in attendance that something new 116 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:50,400 had been obtained. The accumulation of years of 117 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,240 modern Bible scholarship was bearing fruit. 118 00:06:55,280 --> 00:07:01,360 But now, by Jehovah's undeserved kindness, I have the extreme 119 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,520 pleasure of releasing to the international theocracy 120 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,800 increased assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses, the new Wow 121 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,640 translation of the Christian Greek Scripture. 122 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,400 The scholarship for the New World Translation would continue 123 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,800 with the gradual publication. Of the Hebrew Scriptures, the 124 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,840 Bible would be released. In sections over the span of the 125 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:46,560 next 11 years, culminating in a single volume produced in 1961. 126 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:51,000 The cost to obtain this complete New World Translation of the 127 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:56,760 Holy Scriptures, $1.00. At last. 128 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,280 A translation that sincere Bible. 129 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,120 Students could be. Confident in in the past. 130 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,880 Many of the brothers and sisters have had to use a Bible that 131 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,560 Christendom has translated, and because of Christendom's belief 132 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,680 in the Trinity, Hellfire, and other things, the brothers 133 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:15,200 continually, when they're reading the text, I have to ask 134 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,600 themselves a question. Does it really say this in the 135 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,800 original language? But now that they have a Bible, 136 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,160 whether it's in English or another language that has been 137 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,840 prepared by Jehovah's organization, by those who 138 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:32,080 understand the Scriptures, that breeds confidence. 139 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,000 And the brothers, then when they read the Bible, they don't have 140 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,120 to be thinking about does it really say this? 141 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,280 But they can start to think about what does this mean for 142 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,600 me? The original New World 143 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,880 Translation Committee left behind an amazing legacy of 144 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,160 Bible scholarship. These are some of the documents 145 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,240 produced by the committee. Over a 12 year period. 146 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:57,440 This is essentially the entire Bible, produced painstakingly by 147 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:02,840 manual, typewriter and hand. When you open these binders, you 148 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:08,160 gain insight on a tremendous work done decades ago, for 149 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:12,680 example, on the first page of Genesis, the handwritten note of 150 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:16,000 when the translation work began on this portion of Scripture. 151 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:24,760 11:30 AM Tuesday, February 12th, 1952, Genesis 24. 152 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,160 The. First occurrence of God's name, 153 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:32,880 Jehovah in the Bible. Detailed typewritten footnotes. 154 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,400 Handwritten marginal references of Romans chapter 1. 155 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:42,320 Handwritten edits that would ultimately be used in the final 156 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:47,800 production. Genesis 1. 4 After that, God saw 157 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,560 that the light was. Good Genesis 2/5. 158 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,440 Now there was as yet no shrub of the field found in the earth, 159 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,600 and so. The work would go through 66 160 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,680 books of the Bible. They did this work without 161 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:08,640 computers, without all the electronic reference items that 162 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,800 we have these days, and yet when we look at how they consistently 163 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,200 tried to translate God's word in a manner that would be clear and 164 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,280 understandable and yet still faithful to the original, 165 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,600 personally, it amazes me how they're able to accomplish it. 166 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,640 But on the other hand, I shouldn't be amazed because I 167 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,240 know it was Jehovah's spirit. That's that was with those 168 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,080 brothers that helped them in that regard. 169 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,680 All this work was. Accomplished by a committee of 170 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:35,360 Bible. Scholars who wish to. 171 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:38,880 Remain anonymous. Their desire was that this. 172 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,240 Bible should bring attention to God and not to them. 173 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,920 Without question, the translation's greatest 174 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,200 accomplishment is the conscientious effort to render 175 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,040 God's name Jehovah in all the places it would have been 176 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:55,080 featured in the original writings. 177 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,320 The New World Translation was not the first to present God's 178 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:04,240 name, but it perhaps became the first to be consistent with its 179 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:08,200 renderings in both the Hebrew and Greek portions of the Bible. 180 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,760 The Greek scripture rendering of Jehovah has brought criticism 181 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,680 from some The critics claim that Jesus. 182 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:18,760 Followers would have. Observed the Jewish superstition 183 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:20,000 that. Forbids the. 184 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaking of God's name, it should be noted that other 185 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,720 translations of the Bible also render the name Jehovah in the 186 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,520 Greek Scriptures. The reason for doing? 187 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:34,080 So is very logical. And we see that Jehovah's name 188 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:38,560 clearly is in the Hebrew text. So if quotations are made from 189 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:41,960 the Hebrew Bible, they should be there in the Greek text as well. 190 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:47,240 So by Jehovah's people being honest in trying to do what they 191 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,680 see needs to be done, no matter what the world may offer as an 192 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:54,240 opinion, that builds confidence as well in the translation. 193 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,720 When we see how the newer translation really holds 194 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:02,080 Jehovah's name up on high, that warms our hearts and and helps 195 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,440 us to get to know Jehovah's as a person and as a friend. 196 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:10,320 The New World Translation did not go unnoticed by those 197 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:15,000 interested in Bible scholarship. This work reflects an honest 198 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,680 endeavor to achieve an understanding of the text that 199 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:22,160 is as accurate as possible. I have never discovered in the 200 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:26,040 New World Translation any biased intent to read something into 201 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,440 the text that it does not contain. 202 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:31,880 The most? Scholarly Bible ever produced. 203 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:36,000 Is the new World translation Reference edition of 1984 204 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:40,360 containing the most advanced study aids evidence of. 205 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,400 The depth of research available. Is the fact that it's some of 206 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,320 the organization's Bible schools. 207 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:50,000 Students will spend 5/2 hour sessions learning its marginal 208 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,280 references, footnotes, and appendices. 209 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,280 The results are more than just an academic appreciation of the 210 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,960 translation. The attention to detail touches 211 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:05,040 hearts. When the class finishes, usually 212 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,920 the reaction of the students is they're totally amazed. 213 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:12,320 And that is a joyous occasion when we see the practical 214 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,000 benefit that it's not an academic feature. 215 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,520 It's not just something to to look at for the sake of 216 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:20,600 studying, but something that will help them every day of 217 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,320 their lives so that they can search the scriptures more 218 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:27,880 thoroughly. This afternoon we released the 219 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,960 new World translation, The Complete Bible, both in the 220 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,040 Slovak and in the Czech languages. 221 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:40,400 Since 1961, the New World Translation has been released in 222 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:46,440 over 120 languages, with a printing of over 200 million. 223 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,360 The means. By which it is offered. 224 00:13:50,360 --> 00:14:01,880 Includes printed books, sound recordings, Internet pages and 225 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:06,040 by means of video, sign languages for the deaf. 226 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,720 While it certainly stands as an achievement of. 227 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,800 Great scholarship. More than that, the New World 228 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,400 Translation has been instrumental in bringing 229 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,400 millions of honest hearted persons to an accurate knowledge 230 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,640 of the truth. All thanks and praise. 231 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:29,160 Go to the author of the Bible, our God Jehovah. 232 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,120 Right. Again, that was from jw.org. 233 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,600 If you were watching at home. I'm not sure exactly how all 234 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:40,400 that translated, no pun intended for you, but I had a little bit 235 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,680 of issue here in the building, but I think we got it through. 236 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,520 So thanks for the guys sticking with it and making sure that we 237 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:49,120 were able to show that. A word that stuck out to me when 238 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,760 I was listening to that, it was said again at the end, but it 239 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,200 was also prominent in the middle, as well as the word 240 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,080 honest. This has been honest and honest 241 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:01,040 translation that an honest effort was made. 242 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,760 And if I was to use a word to explain the New World 243 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,800 translation, honest would not be one of them. 244 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:11,640 In fact, it's intellectually dishonest to be able to present 245 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,360 this book as the Holy Scriptures. 246 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,800 For instance, it was mentioned that Jehovah's name was restored 247 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,640 in the New Testament. And the fact of the matter is 248 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:24,520 the name of Jehovah as it's found, the Greek, is not really 249 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,800 found in the New Testament, but it's been inserted over and over 250 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,760 and over and over again, which is why they made brief mention 251 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,240 of that. There had been some controversy, 252 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,360 but then created a straw man, meaning there was an argument 253 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,800 that really wasn't the argument of why people are talking about 254 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,240 the name of Jehovah, the New Testament, and they beat that 255 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,640 straw man and while not actually acknowledging the fact, well, go 256 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:51,880 to the Greek, it's not there. It's not the fact that that God 257 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,040 is not Jehovah and the God of the Old Testament is. 258 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,920 We understand that Jehovah God is the same yesterday, today and 259 00:15:57,920 --> 00:15:58,920 forever. Amen. 260 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,960 But the fact of the matter is, is that the Jehovah Witnesses 261 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:06,280 over and over and over again have taken the Word of God and 262 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:10,280 literally cut and paste their own version to be able to fit 263 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:14,080 their own the doctrines. Again, the Jehovah Witnesses, 264 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:18,120 the Watchtower Society as it started in the late 1800s, but 265 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,840 then grew into the Jehovah Witnesses that we know today. 266 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,400 They started enlighteningly enough from that video by using 267 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,320 the King James Bible along with other Bible translations as 268 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,320 well. And yet to remember that really 269 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:35,360 up until somewhere around the mid 1900s, that became the 270 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,160 proliferation of translations that we have today. 271 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,040 But for the most part, people just read the King James Bible. 272 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,360 A lot of those, those other ones that were mentioned were really 273 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,800 Bibles that people just didn't use or wouldn't have had in 274 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,280 their homes. They were specialty Bibles or 275 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,320 things that have been made by some sort of academic that 276 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,000 really didn't have any kind of standing within churches 277 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,400 whatsoever. Particularly Tischendorf's 278 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,760 Bible, which I don't want to get in to, but the basis of using 279 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:03,640 Tischendorf's Bible, which is literally garbage. 280 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,079 Say, pastor, you shouldn't say something like that. 281 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:11,680 No, the signee Atticus, a codex that it was based upon, was 282 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:16,040 literally found in the trash of a monastery on Mount Sinai. 283 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,839 And So what? I'd say that it is garbage. 284 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,880 It's not even being hyperbole to be able to say so. 285 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,280 That's literally what it was that even those monks said. 286 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:27,920 You know, that's really not the Scriptures, but it suited the 287 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:31,640 needs of those who want to deny the Word of God and to make 288 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,400 changes to the Word of God. And again, that's what many of 289 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,440 the, really all of the modern translations are based upon 290 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,240 today. Tischendorf and the work of 291 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:43,280 others like Wescott and Hort. But the idea that this is an 292 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:46,840 honest translation is very, very much not true. 293 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:52,840 Now turning your Bible to Revelation chapter #22 because I 294 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,680 want to show you what's at stake when the word of God is 295 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,400 mishandled and treated in the way that's been treated by the 296 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,440 Jehovah Witnesses and other groups as well. 297 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,360 As you're turning there. Consider Proverbs chapter 30 298 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:09,560 verses 5:00 and 6:00. Every word of God is pure. 299 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,760 He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. 300 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:17,560 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou 301 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,840 be found a liar. Listen, when God has spoken, man 302 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:23,160 is silent. That man is not allowed to 303 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,240 change the Word of God in any way. 304 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,280 We'll see that here in Revelation chapter 20. 305 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:33,160 In fact, let's go ahead and read that beginning in verse #17. 306 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:37,520 And it says, And the Spirit and the Bride say, come, and he that 307 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:41,000 heareth say, come and let him. That is a thirst come. 308 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,000 And whosoever will let him take the water of life freely. 309 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,480 By the way, aren't you glad that invitation was made to all of 310 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:51,400 us, that God calls all to repent and come to Jesus Christ as 311 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,360 Savior? Come and drink of the living 312 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:56,640 water. Verse #18 For I testify unto 313 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:00,200 every man that here at the words of the prophecy of this book, if 314 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,120 any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him 315 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:06,040 the plagues that are written in this book. 316 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:09,440 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book, of 317 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,480 this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of 318 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,600 life, out of the holy city, and from the things that are written 319 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,200 in this book, He would testify these things. 320 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,440 Say it surely I come quickly. Amen. 321 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:24,160 Even so, come Lord Jesus, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 322 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,080 be with you all. Amen. 323 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,400 What does it said? Don't add to it. 324 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,600 Don't take away from it. Judgment is real for those who 325 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:38,160 add or take away from this book. And the Jehovah Witnesses have 326 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:42,240 haphazardly taken the Word of God and change it to suit their 327 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,080 own needs. By the way, may I remind you, 328 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,480 when it comes to the issue of the Word of God, it is to change 329 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:48,680 us. We don't change it. 330 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:53,120 The Word of God is written to change us, not for us to change 331 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:54,680 it when we come in contact with it. 332 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,200 You say, you know, I've not looked at life that way before. 333 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:59,760 Well, we don't just ignore that part of the word of God. 334 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,520 We say, well, I guess I need to change my thinking. 335 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,640 Well, we're not Bible correctors in the sense that any of us, if 336 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,240 I imagine taking our Bibles and started, you know, taking 337 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,800 scissors to it like, you know, Thomas Jefferson did. 338 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,760 Or anything like that. But at the same time, we can 339 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:18,040 also be guilty of editing the word of God in our own minor 340 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:20,600 way. But really, again, a way that is 341 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,240 ungodly when we take the word of God, say, you know, I don't know 342 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,440 if that applies to me. I don't think, I don't look at 343 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:29,560 life that way. That was written 2000 years ago. 344 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:31,920 I don't know that it's really applicable to be careful, 345 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,400 because that's the same spirit that you find here in Revelation 346 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,240 chapter #22 that God so greatly condemns. 347 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:43,320 Well, we also found from the video the fact that the New 348 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:47,360 World Translation is the culmination of the world finally 349 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:49,520 being able to have a Bible. Did you catch that? 350 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,520 That Christendom had actually messed up the Bible? 351 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:57,200 That really there is no Bible until the copy of the New World 352 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:02,280 Translation was given at that stadium, the Yankee Stadium in 353 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:04,520 the 1950s, ironically enough as well. 354 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:08,920 And again, the Jehovah Witnesses just can't help themselves in 355 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,080 being able to embellish and not tell the truth. 356 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,720 They were told that 80,000 people were there at Yankee 357 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,880 Stadium. I gave the exact number and 358 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,600 Yankee Stadium never held that amount of people. 359 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,840 You saw the photograph of all the people there. 360 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,920 So again, embellishing something that's so simple and so easily 361 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,360 verifiable. But we are promised in the Word 362 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:30,800 of God that the Word of God abides forever. 363 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,840 We are promised in the Word of God that while heaven and earth 364 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,400 shall pass away, the Word of God shall never pass away. 365 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,160 But the Jehovah Witnesses would contend to you that until they 366 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:40,960 came along, nobody had the Bible. 367 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,320 And that would mean that God would be untrue. 368 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:48,040 That would be that God was a liar, that He had not preserved 369 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:49,880 His word. And it was only by the work of 370 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,120 the brothers and sisters. It was only by the work of the 371 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:55,720 faithful and discreet slave, as we saw last week. 372 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,600 It was only by their work that the world had the Bible once 373 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,800 again. And certainly that is not the 374 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,880 case. I also make mention to you the 375 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,520 fact that they said that the translators were anonymous and 376 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,680 they use that as a way of kind of saying, well, isn't it good 377 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:12,520 that they wanted to give God the praise? 378 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,360 And academically speaking, anonymous work that cannot be 379 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:19,240 independently verified is not something to be proud of. 380 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:23,840 In fact, it's something that is quite the opposite of what would 381 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,120 be typical Bible translation or typical academic work. 382 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,640 They were anonymous for a reason, by the way. 383 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,560 The reason they were anonymous was because none of them had 384 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,520 real understanding of biblical languages. 385 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,000 Did you know? And I'm going to be careful with 386 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,840 my time because a lot of different things that I want to 387 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,040 get to you here this morning. And my brains kind of scrambled 388 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:45,920 a little bit more than normal this morning anyway. 389 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,080 Amen with everything that I was dealing with yesterday. 390 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,800 But there were six Bible translators that over the years 391 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:57,640 their names have leaked 1 by 1. Five of the six had no 392 00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,320 understanding of biblical languages. 393 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:05,040 There was one who had a very rudimentary and very small 394 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:09,480 ability to understand biblical languages and understood, I 395 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:13,760 believe Hebrew, but yet not Greek, or rather Greek but not 396 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:14,800 Hebrew. I had that mixed up. 397 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,400 Let me read this. Eventually the list of 6 398 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,880 translators became known. Frederick Franz was the main 399 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,720 translator. Raymond Franz, who eventually 400 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,240 left the Jehovah Witnesses, wrote the following in his 1983 401 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,720 book, The Crisis of Conscience about his uncle. 402 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,200 So there's a man who left and he's writing about his uncle who 403 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,760 was the main translator of the New World Translation. 404 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:39,480 And he said this. His uncle, Fred Franz, was the 405 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,760 only one with sufficient knowledge of the Biblical 406 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:46,080 languages to to attempt translation of this kind, but he 407 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,960 had studied Greek for two years at the University of Cincinnati 408 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:51,160 and was only self-taught in Hebrew. 409 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:56,080 Frederick Franz, the primary translator, had only 21 hours of 410 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,880 classic Greek training at the University of Cincinnati and 411 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,400 only two hours of Biblical Greek or Konye Greek. 412 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,640 This information was provided. Listen to this, you say, well, 413 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,320 how did he know this? Well, Frederick Franz had 414 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,040 provided this information in 1911 in his autobiography when 415 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,120 he published his own college transcript. 416 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,960 So it's not even up to debate of how much he knew about it. 417 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,720 He had released this information at a time when he probably 418 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,400 wouldn't have thought his knowledge of Greek and Hebrew 419 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,600 would come into question some 40 years later. 420 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,320 It's important to note that Cornier Greek is the language 421 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:31,960 taught in theological seminaries for biblical studies. 422 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,720 The normal study course lasts for two years or 4 semesters. 423 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,800 And again, he had two hours, two credit hours of Coyne Greek 424 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,680 training and no training in the Hebrew whatsoever. 425 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,240 This means that the primary translator, the New World 426 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,920 Translation, was inadequately trained to perform the task of 427 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,960 Bible translation. The other five translator had 428 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:57,800 elementary acquaintance with the Greek at the most, ironically 429 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,760 enough, in the 1950s in the country of Scotland, Oh, where's 430 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,000 Diane? In the country of Scotland there 431 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,480 was a Jehovah Witness who was actually took the nation of 432 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,720 Scotland to court over the case of whether the Jehovah Witnesses 433 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,800 were actually a religion or not because of benefits from the 434 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,800 state and trying to be a conscious conscientious objector 435 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,520 in the military. He brought forth that he was 436 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:27,160 Jehovah Witness and Scotland, the UK said that's not a real 437 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,240 religion. So there was a trial that took 438 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,360 place. Frederick Franz was actually 439 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:36,320 called as a witness for the gentleman from Scotland. 440 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,040 He said this is, this is a man that I want to be put on the 441 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,720 stand to be able to show you the Jehovah Witnesses are 442 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,800 legitimate. Well, the solicitor, their 443 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:47,080 attorneys in the UK, the solicitor during the trial asked 444 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,920 Frederick Franz if he was familiar with Hebrew and Greek. 445 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:54,320 He said that he was, but only to a certain extent. 446 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,520 He was asked on the stand to be able to translate a verse from 447 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:03,800 Genesis chapter 2 from the biblical language into English 448 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,320 or vice versa. I'm not sure exactly which that 449 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:11,760 it was, but at any rate, the verse, which was fairly simple, 450 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,520 my understanding, would be used in Bible colleges or other 451 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,920 situations to be able to teach Hebrew. 452 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,360 He was unable even to translate that on the stand. 453 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,080 And this was the man that gave us the book that saved 454 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:30,480 Christendom, that we didn't have a Bible until the Jehovah 455 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,560 Witnesses come along. And the gentleman who says it 456 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:37,080 gives me extreme pleasure to be able to introduce to you the New 457 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,840 World Translation. And again, this is not the word 458 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,800 of God. This is not the Bible. 459 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,800 It may say Holy Scriptures on it. 460 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,680 It is not the Holy Scriptures. Now you might say, what are some 461 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,720 specific examples of errors in the New World Translation? 462 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,400 Now we have to move fast with our fingers here. 463 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,320 We'll be going back and forth because I do want to show you 464 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,120 some major doctrines. Understand this. 465 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:01,000 I'm probably going to show you 567. 466 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,040 We'll see how we do with time. But also know that this is a 467 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,840 very small sampling. It's just really to wet your 468 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,560 taste a little bit for some of the major issues that are there. 469 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,480 And so would you please first turn to John 11? 470 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,720 This perhaps could be one of the gravest of all. 471 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:32,560 John 11. Like hearing those pages of 472 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,160 those Bibles turn and that's nice. 473 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:42,800 I like that. John 11 and it says this. 474 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,120 You might be even be able to quote this. 475 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,640 In the beginning was the Word and the word was with God and 476 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,440 the Word was God. Now in your Bible, the word Word 477 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:55,920 is capitalized, meaning who is it talking about? 478 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,840 Talking about Jesus, isn't it? And if you're not sure about 479 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,920 that, you could continue reading and it's very clear it's Jesus. 480 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:03,680 The same was in the beginning with God. 481 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,240 All things were made by him and without him was not anything 482 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,160 made that was made in him was life, and the life was the light 483 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,720 of men. And it continues on that. 484 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,800 There's no doubt He is the living Word and that verse 14 485 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,920 the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld as 486 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,440 glory in the glory as of the only begotten, the Father full 487 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,280 of grace and truth. There's no doubt it is Jesus 488 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,160 Christ. Now with this the new World 489 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,480 translation say about this because remember they do not 490 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,160 believe in the deity of Christ. They did not believe that Jesus 491 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,840 is God. Well, it says here in the 492 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,240 beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word 493 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:44,040 was a God. The word was a God. 494 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:49,480 Do you see how one letter completely changes the entire 495 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,680 verse? That it's not just the fact that 496 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:56,880 Jesus Christ was God, that he was just a deity among deities, 497 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:01,040 that he was a minor deity amongst the major deity of 498 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,240 Jehovah. Remember, they believe that 499 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,600 Jesus was Michael the Archangel until his incarnation. 500 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,960 And so just that one letter completely changes the tenor of 501 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,640 the word of God denying the deity of Christ. 502 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:25,080 Now go to John chapter 8, verse 58, John 858 and small G, yeah, 503 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:27,920 small G as well. That's exactly right. 504 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:37,360 John 858 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily I say unto you, 505 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:43,000 before Abraham was, I am. Now why would that be 506 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,280 significant? Well, we understand by looking 507 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:49,200 at the Old Testament that God was identified by the name I am 508 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,200 that I am. Remember the burning Bush in 509 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,440 Moses? I am that I am. 510 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:58,720 And that phrase I am was Jesus equating himself to be God. 511 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:03,200 You say, well, I mean, sure, you can say that, but it I mean, how 512 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:04,680 could you get that just from that verse? 513 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,280 We'll look at the next verse if you're not sure. 514 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,200 Then they took up stones to cast them, but Jesus hid himself and 515 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,360 went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and 516 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,200 so passed by. What? 517 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,200 What were they doing? They were stoning Him for 518 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,920 blasphemy. They understood exactly what He 519 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,040 meant. What does the New World 520 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,000 translation say? Before Abraham came into 521 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,400 existence? I've been that's a big 522 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:32,040 difference, isn't it? No longer equating him with God 523 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,880 the father being God the Father, God the son, God the Holy 524 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,920 Spirit. Just saying that Jesus pre 525 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,480 existed Abraham, meaning he could have been Michael the 526 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,320 Archangel because he's just well, he's been around a long 527 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:46,360 time as a as another created being that he was not the 528 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,960 creator God, that he was a created being created by Jehovah 529 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,680 God. And again, there is no father, 530 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,200 son and Holy Ghost. And so all throughout the New 531 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,800 World Translation, what are you going to find? 532 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:02,760 A denial of the deity of Christ stripped out of the Bible over 533 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,480 and over and over again. The New World Translation also 534 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,240 undermines Christ's role as creator. 535 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,600 Turn to Colossians chapter #1 Colossians chapter #1 and saying 536 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,880 what I just said, that he was a created being and not the 537 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,280 Creator. It strips him as his role of 538 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,000 Creator. Colossians chapter #1 Galatians, 539 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,520 Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians there in those 540 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:32,640 epistles, Colossians 115 through 17. 541 00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:42,100 What does it say? Who is the image of the 542 00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:45,020 invisible God? The first born of every 543 00:31:45,020 --> 00:31:46,820 creature. Now when it's talking about 544 00:31:47,340 --> 00:31:50,900 first born, we understand that it's talking about that he is in 545 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:53,340 rank and authority above all else. 546 00:31:53,340 --> 00:31:56,460 We we see this term every once in a while, the first born and 547 00:31:56,460 --> 00:32:00,260 it's the idea that over all, he is the first in rank and 548 00:32:00,260 --> 00:32:02,520 authority. And you say, well, how can you 549 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,680 say that? Well, he's the image of God we 550 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,960 find in Philippians. He's the express image of God, 551 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,720 meaning this, that when you look at him, you're looking at God. 552 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,280 That's what it's saying. And it is reiterated in verse 553 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,400 16. For by Him we're all things 554 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,280 created that are in heaven and are in earth visible and 555 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,200 invisible, whether it be Thrones or dominions or principalities 556 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,640 or powers. All things were created by Him 557 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,560 and for him. And He is before all things, and 558 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,960 by Him all things consist. Who is the only creator? 559 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,440 God. God is the only creator. 560 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,480 But look at what the New World Translation says. 561 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,400 It says this. He is the image of the invisible 562 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,600 God, the first born of all creation because by him of all 563 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,840 about because by means of him, all other things were created in 564 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,160 the heavens and on the earth, things visible and the things 565 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,000 invisible, whether they are Thrones or lordships or 566 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,680 governments or authorities. Now look at this. 567 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,480 All other things have been created through him and for him 568 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:03,600 and he is before all other things and by means of him all 569 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,760 other things were made to exist. The word other is added over and 570 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,960 over and over again, meaning this well, He may have had some 571 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:15,320 level of involvement with creation on a lower level, but 572 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,640 he is a created being first He was created, then the other 573 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,640 things were created. First Jesus was created, then 574 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,800 other things were created. Again, absolutely stripping away 575 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,560 the the fact that Jesus is God and that he is creator God. 576 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,960 Then of course, distorting the fact that the Trinity, Father, 577 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,680 Son, and Holy Ghost. Again, a denial. 578 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,760 If you don't have Jesus as God, well, you can't have a Trinity 579 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,600 anyway. Can you strip away the Holy 580 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,440 Spirit and his deity as well? Genesis 1/2. 581 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,680 So if you're not sure where that is, flop it over. 582 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,920 All right, you'll find it here in a second. 583 00:33:50,640 --> 00:34:09,840 Genesis 1/2. And the earth was without form, 584 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:14,760 and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the 585 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,840 Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 586 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,719 Well, right there in verse #2 we find the Spirit of God, don't 587 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,199 we? And we know that as Genesis 588 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:25,920 chapter 1 continues, what happens that God says let us 589 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,320 make man in our image. And there are several references 590 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,960 to God in conference with himself saying us meaning 591 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,679 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, all with one another. 592 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,679 Well, New World Translation says this. 593 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:38,480 Now. The earth was formless and 594 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,199 desolate, and God's active force was moving about over the 595 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:44,360 surface of the waters. God's Spirit has been turned 596 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,159 into an active force that is much different. 597 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,679 Again, when we talk of the Holy Spirit, we don't say it, excuse 598 00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:53,320 me, we say he. Why? 599 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,719 Because, well, he is God. And so he is not just some 600 00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,560 lifeless spirit, some lifeless force that has move or even 601 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,720 active force, if you will. No, he is the Spirit of God. 602 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:06,440 But that verse literally has to be stripped away. 603 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,560 By the way, just to make sure we're clear, there's no 604 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,720 foundation in the original languages for these changes. 605 00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:15,600 It's not the fact that, well, it seems like this has been 606 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,840 mistranslated over the years over and over again. 607 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:22,760 It's literally a willful ignoring of what the Bible 608 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,760 original languages have said. And simply it's saying this, we 609 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,760 don't like it, we don't want to defend it. 610 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,440 Crossing it out and putting something else in its place. 611 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,000 Absolutely dangerous to be able to do so. 612 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,320 Titus chapter 2, verse 13. We're not going to get to all 613 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,040 these today, and that's OK. Titus, chapter 2, verse 13. 614 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:55,560 I know I got you going to cover to cover here today. 615 00:35:55,560 --> 00:36:01,040 We literally went from Genesis 1-2 to Revelation 2221, so I'd 616 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,160 say we've covered a lot of ground here in just an hour. 617 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:09,360 Titus 213. You got First and 2nd 618 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,640 Thessalonians, First and Second Timothy and Titus, all those 619 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:16,000 books with the letter T all kind of clumped together there in the 620 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:24,760 epistles. Titus 213 says this looking for 621 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,080 that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great 622 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:32,920 God and our Savior Jesus Christ. The great God and our Savior 623 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,600 Jesus Christ are one in the same. 624 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,000 There is an equality between the two. 625 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:39,880 But what do we see in the New World Translation while we wait 626 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:43,200 for the happy hope and manifestation of the great God 627 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,720 and of the Savior of us, Jesus Christ? 628 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,840 There's been a separation, A subtle separation, but a 629 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,440 separation that has been made nonetheless. 630 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:55,600 Where it says our great of the great God and our Savior Jesus 631 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,720 Christ, and it turns that one into two and saying, well, he's 632 00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:02,960 not really God. He's a savior, but he's not God. 633 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,280 He's been a savior appointed by God. 634 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,880 Again, subtle, but yet real nonetheless. 635 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,720 I'm just going to read some of these to you for the sake of 636 00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:13,520 time and so you can look some of these up later yourself. 637 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,680 Acts chapter 20 verse 28. It says to feed the Church of 638 00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,040 God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 639 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,680 Talking about the atonement and the blood of Christ. 640 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,680 Acts 2028 to shepherd the congregation of God, which he 641 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,240 purchased with the blood of his own son. 642 00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:34,920 Again, talking about the fact that this is not the blood of of 643 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:39,400 Jesus Christ who is God, but rather that it is a created 644 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:44,080 being who gave his blood. Zechariah 12/10 they shall look 645 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:48,680 upon me who may have pierced. Now when it talks about me and 646 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:52,160 Zechariah 12/10, it's in reference to God because God has 647 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,560 been speaking. So when Jesus was pierced, that 648 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,840 shows from Zechariah 12/10 that He was God. 649 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,440 But here it says they will look upon, they will look to the one 650 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,400 who may have pierced again, meaning this that they're 651 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,280 saying, well, this isn't really God, that Jesus was pierced, but 652 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,520 he was not God. They take that away. 653 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,400 No foundation in the Greek to that. 654 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,400 They misrepresent resurrection and eternal life. 655 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:19,680 One of my favorites is John 2028 when Thomas says my Lord and my 656 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,560 God, he looks at Jesus my Lord and my God. 657 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:29,960 You say for some reason that has been retained in the in the new 658 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:31,680 world translation. We don't have time to read all 659 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,440 this, but this is the study notes that are found next to 660 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,160 John 2028 to make you understand why Thomas really didn't mean 661 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,760 saying that. Look at how much you have to 662 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,520 explain to not believe the word of God and over and over it's 663 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:47,000 found again Revelation the same and I think we have run around a 664 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,320 time. So what is wrong with it. 665 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,000 I'll just leave you with this. What's wrong with it? 666 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:55,040 Everything to answer the question, what is wrong with it? 667 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:56,840 Everything. And so we'll look next week at 668 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:01,920 comparing the beliefs between them as well as us as believers. 669 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,880 And then we'll talk about how we can actively and effectively 670 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,240 share our faith with them as well. 671 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,280 Thank you for listening to the sermon from the pulpit of 672 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,200 Liberty Baptist Church. If this message was a blessing 673 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,680 to you, or if there's any way we can serve you, please let us 674 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:22,840 know by contacting us at info@mylibertybaptist.org or you 675 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:28,040 can visit us this Sunday at 800 Washington St. in Easton, MA. 676 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,120 May the Lord bless you as you grow in His Word.