1 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:04,960 Amen. Turn with me tonight to the Book 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:08,760 of Revelation. Revelation chapter 2. 3 00:00:20,190 --> 00:00:23,910 Just a short reading tonight, few verses. 4 00:00:24,070 --> 00:00:30,510 Revelation chapter 2, we're reading from verse 8. 5 00:00:31,350 --> 00:00:34,510 We're reading of course, from the King James Bible. 6 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,240 The words will come up and scream for all who are online. 7 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,000 And again we emphasise if anyone wants survival, please contact 8 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,320 us. We'll be happy to supply you one 9 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:49,080 for free. Revelation chapter 2, verse 8. 10 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:57,600 Follow with me. I should add before I read, I'm 11 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:02,880 not going to attempt to preach on this portion of Scripture. 12 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,320 I will do that at some stage in the future. 13 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:14,960 And on to the Angel of the church and Smyrna, right these 14 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:20,280 things, saith the 1st and the last, which was dead as and as 15 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,520 alive. I know thy works, and 16 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:30,760 tribulation and poverty, but thou art rich, and I know the 17 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:37,040 blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are 18 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:42,320 the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which 19 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:46,200 thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast 20 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:52,240 some of you into prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall of 21 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:59,080 tribulation. 10 days. Be thou faithful unto death, and 22 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:00,960 I will give thee a crown of life. 23 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,360 He that hath in the ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto 24 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,960 the churches. He that overcometh shall not be 25 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:14,080 heard of the second death. Amen. 26 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:16,320 We know that the Lord will stamp with His own approval and 27 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:21,360 blessing this reading of His own precious and infallible word. 28 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:29,320 Now my text tonight is found in Revelation chapter 2, verse 10. 29 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:34,920 And I want us to focus on the phrase, Be faithful unto death 30 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,240 and I will give thee the crown of life. 31 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:45,800 Be thy faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life. 32 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:51,240 Now my theme this evening is about the man who gave us the 33 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:55,280 English Bible. And if I was to ask the question 34 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,360 who is known as the Father of the English Bible, I believe 35 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:04,240 that historically one name would top the list and that would be 36 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:11,000 the name of William Tyndale. You see, William Tyndale was the 37 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,080 first man to print a New Testament in our English 38 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:25,480 language, and he did so did this printing in October 1525. 39 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:31,040 And this month we are celebrating the 500th 40 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:36,680 anniversary of the first man to print a New Testament in the 41 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,440 English language. And this New Testament was 42 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,800 different from John Wycliffe's translation. 43 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,600 John Wycliff, some of you know, was known as the Morning Star of 44 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,760 the Reformation. Wycliffe and his fellow scholars 45 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:54,240 translated the entire Bible, the Old and New Testament, from the 46 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:59,240 Latin Vulgate into the English dialect for the ordinary people 47 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,440 to read. The first New Testament appeared 48 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:08,320 in 1370. Unfortunately, it was a a hand 49 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,120 copying job. Did you know it took nine 50 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:17,200 months, about nine months approximately, to copy the words 51 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,600 exactly? It was a large book, difficult 52 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,360 to carry about. Remember it was a copy of a 53 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:31,280 translation, the Latin Vulgate into the English language. 54 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:36,600 However, 10 Deal's translation was different. 10 Deal was the 55 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:41,960 first man to print a New Testament in the English 56 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:49,240 language directly from the Greek New Testament and God's 57 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:53,320 providential will around us time, a man by the name of Johan 58 00:04:53,360 --> 00:05:00,280 Erasmus, he had printed his Greek New Testament. 59 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:06,760 The year was 1516. Tyndale's translation was 60 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:12,160 largely based on that Greek New Testament of Erasmus in the year 61 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:17,440 1522. That was Erasmus translation 62 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,480 then. Now I want us to think tonight, 63 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,960 and I watched the clock of the life and the legacy of William 64 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,760 Tyndale, the father of the English Bible. 65 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,280 Let's think of William Tyndale the man. 66 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:40,280 Let's get a little glimpse into the blueprint of his life. 67 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:47,960 William Tyndale was born in the year 1494. 68 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,960 He was born near the Welsh border in the county of 69 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,160 Gloucestershire, in the land of England. 70 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:59,640 His father was a very wealthy landowner, a very wealthy man. 71 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:06,600 Now we don't know exactly in 1494 what day he was born. 72 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,200 I like to know the day, but we know this, he had a birthday. 73 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:16,200 Also think of his death day because here's another point, 74 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:21,280 the blueprint of his life, his death occurred on the 6th of 75 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:27,080 October 1536. He was only aged 42. 76 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:33,320 How did he die? By accident, No, he was 77 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:38,360 murdered. He was martyred for his faith. 78 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,400 We'll come to that at the end when we think about William 79 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:50,000 Tyndale the martyr. But in between 1494 and the 6th 80 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,520 of October 1536, there you've got the journey of life of 81 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,880 William Tyndale. And I just want to point out 82 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,440 that William Tyndale was a saved man. 83 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,840 He trusted Christ, He looked to Christ for salvation, for 84 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:08,680 sanctification, for service, for separation. 85 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,520 He was not only a safe man, but he was a serving man. 86 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,120 He gave himself to the work and witness of God. 87 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,120 He was a self sacrificing, self denial man. 88 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,640 So I want to ask the question before we move on any further, 89 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:25,040 what about your life? Let's give a blueprint of your 90 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:26,720 life. There was a day when you were 91 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,440 born. You're enjoying life right now 92 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:32,840 and there's a day of death that's appointed for it's 93 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,960 appointed unto man wants to die and after this the judgement and 94 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,120 in between you've got the journey of your life and let 95 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,600 that life be long or short. I want to tell you tonight, your 96 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,560 life is ordained. Your life has been appointed by 97 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,720 God. Do you know what we read in the 98 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,400 book of Acts and Acts chapter 17? 99 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:55,120 Paul, whenever he was at Athens, said this on Mars Hill. 100 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,320 And all things made of one blood, and have made of one 101 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,960 blood all nations of men. For to dwell on all the face of 102 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,080 the earth, and have determined the times before appointed in 103 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:09,200 the bounds of their habitation, that they should seek the Lord, 104 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,760 if happily they might feel after Him and find Him, though we be 105 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:19,960 not far from every one of us. For in Him we live and move, and 106 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:26,120 have our being. So I want to ask, are you a 107 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:31,280 saved individual tonight? Are you testifying that you've 108 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,559 received Christ as Lord and Saviour, resting in him alone 109 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,720 for salvation? If you're saved tonight, I want 110 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:39,760 to ask, what are you doing to serve the Lord? 111 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,240 Are you serving the Lord and the place where you are, your home, 112 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,360 your community? Brother Ryan greatly encouraged 113 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,080 me today. He he said at work must have 114 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,000 been yesterday the day before he gave out a gospel of John's book 115 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:00,200 booklet to a Filipino man. We're praying for the Filipino 116 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:01,840 community that live and carried off. 117 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:05,680 He encouraged last week the children to attend the 118 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:07,800 children's meetings and a good number came. 119 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,560 I want to ask do you living your life to the glory of God because 120 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:16,480 man's defend us to glorify God and enjoy him forever. 121 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:19,560 We were singing this morning. Love's so amazing, so divine, 122 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:22,200 demands my soul, my life, my all. 123 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:27,240 Is that true of us? Remember one day we're going to 124 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:31,440 have to give an account to God. And if we're asked these 125 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,600 questions, are you saved? If we're asked the question, 126 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,840 what are you doing to serve me? If we're asking the question, 127 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,960 did you live a life of self sacrifice and self denial? 128 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,440 Because the Bible says everyone of us shall give an account of 129 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:48,600 himself to God. That's a blueprint of William 130 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,840 Tyndale, the man. Think of something else. 131 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,360 Think not only of the blueprint of his life, but think of the 132 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,920 back cloth of his life. I asked myself this week, what 133 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:00,320 was England like in the 15th century, the 16th century? 134 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:06,040 See, like Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, William 135 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:11,880 Tyndale was born into and brought up in the Roman Catholic 136 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:15,520 system. In those days England was at a 137 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:20,880 very, very low ebb spiritually. There was gross spiritual 138 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,440 darkness throughout the land. The county of Gloucestershire 139 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:30,160 was a hive of priest craft. The clergy and the people were 140 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:34,640 shrouded in the midst of the deepest surface circles. 141 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:40,400 Superstition, the Gospel was unknown, In fact it was unheard 142 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,400 of. The people worshipped the 143 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:48,480 relics. They flocked to the Mass, they 144 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,400 did their penance, they believed in purgatory. 145 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:57,640 And by these means the Church of Rome was offering a way of 146 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:04,040 salvation by a workspace system, by religious deeds and religious 147 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:07,640 rites and ceremonies, Of course, totally company to the 148 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:09,880 Scriptures. Ephesians 28 and 9. 149 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:13,360 For by grace are you seeing through faith and not, not of 150 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,480 yourselves. It's the gift of God, not of 151 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:17,280 works, lest any man should boast and see. 152 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:22,240 People tell us today, and I say this respectfully, the Church of 153 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:26,000 Rome has changed. That's the 15th century, 154 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,560 Reverend McLaughlin. That's the 16th century. 155 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:30,520 Well, that was Luther and Calvin and Noxon. 156 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:34,320 Things are different now. We've got Vatican too. 157 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:39,440 I I want to tell you the Roman Catholic system has not changed 158 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:45,960 one bit. There's still a religion of 159 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:50,000 superstition. They still urge the people to go 160 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:55,160 to the priest to do penance. They don't point individuals to 161 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:59,480 Christ, the Lamb of God. They're not telling them that 162 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,040 Jesus saith I am the way, the truth, the life. 163 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,640 No man comes unto the Father but by me. 164 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,520 There's no call for repentance. There's no call for faith in 165 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,480 Christ. They're not offering a full and 166 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,800 free and forever justification by faith alone. 167 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:15,880 They're not pointing her adherence to the Bible. 168 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:22,120 Thus in thus saith the Lord over 2000 times, as I8 and 20 says, 169 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:28,920 to the law and to the testimony of there is no light in them to 170 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,000 the law and to the testimony. If they if they speak not 171 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,240 according to this word, it's because there's no light in 172 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:37,360 them. See, in Tyndale's day, the Bible 173 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,400 was also an unknown book. Or they had the Bible in Latin, 174 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,600 but they even hated John Wycliffe's translation into 175 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,600 English. The Bible in the Latin was only 176 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,280 known to the elite clergy, but in the English it was banned and 177 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,680 burned. The lawlords had a rough time 178 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:02,200 now it was this was the world into which William Tyndale was 179 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,160 born and lived. This was the back cloth to his 180 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:11,360 life. Think thirdly of the benefits of 181 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,800 his life. Now we're thinking about William 182 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,800 Tyndale the man. Is he due to having a wealthy 183 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:22,640 father? William Tyndale entered 184 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:29,520 Magdalene Hall, now Hertford College in Oxford in 15 O five. 185 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:35,440 He was aged 11. He became skilled in seven 186 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:40,960 languages, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Italian, French and 187 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,600 English. It was said that when he speak 188 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:50,360 any of these 7 languages, it was like listening to a man in his 189 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,520 native tongue. Unfortunately, as William 190 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:58,920 Tyndale said at Magdalen Hall, the study of the Bible was 191 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,440 discouraged. Oh yes, they would let you study 192 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:06,600 philosophy for seven or eight or nine years, but not the Bible. 193 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:13,400 No, the Bible in Latin was only for the elite clergy. 194 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:21,280 See, William Tyndale was a very intellectual man of learning, a 195 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,800 man of great abilities. Imagine from the age of 11 up 196 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,280 till he was 21, he learnt 7 languages. 197 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,680 I would need to go and learn English, but he learnt 7 198 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,680 languages and during the next 10 years spent in Oxford. 199 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:42,040 He graduated with ABA in 1512, graduated with an MA in 1515, 200 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:47,880 and during this period the religious world began the 201 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:52,800 transition from mediaeval Roman Catholicism into the doctrines 202 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:54,880 of the Reformation. Now listen to me carefully. 203 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:59,840 Tyndale grew and increased in his knowledge of the Holy 204 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:04,080 Scriptures, so much so that he began to preach the Scriptures 205 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,440 to the Fellows of Magdalene Hall. 206 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:12,640 For William Tyndale, everything was brought to the touchstone of 207 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:17,400 Holy Scripture, to the law, and to the testimony. 208 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,800 If they speak not according to this word, it's because there's 209 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,120 no light in them. Isaiah 8 and 20. 210 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:30,680 He believed in the authority and sufficiency and the supremacy of 211 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:34,680 the inspired word. This is what John Knox in Fox's 212 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:38,080 Book of Martyrs said about him. His mind was addicted to the 213 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,760 knowledge of the Scriptures. I asked, is your mind addicted 214 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:43,080 to the knowledge of the Scriptures? 215 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:47,360 Mine. You see he testified during this 216 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:53,080 10 year period at Oxford that he had found the secret of life. 217 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,240 Do you know what the secret of life was? 218 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,480 Being born again. Listen to these words in first 219 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:04,520 Peter chapter one verse 23. Being born again, not a 220 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:07,360 corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of 221 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,760 God, which liveth and abideth forever. 222 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,720 You see, the Word had come and generated faith, and the Word 223 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,760 regenerated, and that was the secret of life that William 224 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:22,200 Tyndale discovered. He discovered the power and the 225 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,120 preciousness and the purity of the Word of God. 226 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,360 The psalmist said in Psalm 119, verse 30, the entrance of the 227 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:34,200 high Word giveth light, giveth understanding to the simple. 228 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,960 William Tyndale received the light of the Word. 229 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,600 William Tyndale had a love for the word. 230 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:47,320 William Tyndale lived for the word of God. 231 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:51,000 As he read, he discovered the true deity of Christ. 232 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:53,760 He discovered the depravity of man's sin. 233 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,120 He discovered the danger and destiny of man's soul. 234 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,960 He discovered a great delight in God's salvation through 235 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,440 receiving and resting in Christ alone. 236 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:10,160 He said I have found a secret, and the secret is connected to 237 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:15,160 the words of the book in Magdalen Hall. 238 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,800 In 1515 he received his Masters of Arts. 239 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:25,359 He then left Oxford for Cambridge for Erasmus taught 240 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:30,360 from 1511 to 1514. The influence of the famous 241 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:34,640 Dutchman was still at Queen's College, Tyndale come under that 242 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,240 influence. He come under the influence of a 243 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,960 man called the Reverend Thomas Billney. 244 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:41,720 Let me tell you about Thomas Billney. 245 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,720 He was also a Roman Catholic and got converted. 246 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:45,560 And when he got converted, I'll tell you what he did. 247 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,280 He decided, you know what, I've got to go to confession. 248 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:54,200 And he picked the Reverend Thomas Cranner and asked him 249 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:58,040 would you hear my confession? So they went into the 250 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,920 confessional box. Thomas Bilney gave Cramner his 251 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:06,480 confession, and his confession was how he got converted. 252 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:10,560 And of course that was a chain of events in the heart and life 253 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:14,840 of Thomas Cramner, bringing Thomas Cramner eventually to 254 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:18,880 Christ. You see, according to John Fox, 255 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:24,320 William Tyndale further ripened in his knowledge of God, the 256 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:29,480 greatest knowledge in the world. He left Cambridge in 1521. 257 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:34,920 They that was the glorious year of Martin Luther made his stand 258 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,040 in his famous speech at the Diet of the Worms. 259 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,160 After leaving Cambridge, God LED William Tyndale to a place 260 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:45,120 called Little Sodbury Manor. He became a private tutor in the 261 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:48,600 home of Sir John Walsh in Gloucestershire. 262 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:53,680 Remember Gloucestershire, where he was born, a stronghold of 263 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:58,400 Roman Catholicism and into this house because there were 6 I 264 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:03,840 think abbeys or whatever nearby or in the county. 265 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,240 Many Abbots came to the home, many Deans came, arch deacons 266 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,800 came, and other leading clergy. They sat around the table, they 267 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,400 ate food. Master Tyndale was there. 268 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:15,800 Remember, he's the private shooter. 269 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:21,760 And they asked questions, Answers are given, arguments 270 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:25,200 followed. Here's a conversation from 1521. 271 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:30,920 It is recorded a priest. The Scriptures are a labyrinth 272 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:35,320 and a conjuring book wherein everyone finds what he wants. 273 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:36,960 We hear that same argument today. 274 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:43,080 We were better to be without God's laws than the Pope's. 275 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,920 It was at that time William Tyndale responded. 276 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:51,520 I defy the Pope in all his laws. He added this of God's spare my 277 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:53,680 life. Ere many years I will cause a 278 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:58,080 boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scriptures than 279 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:02,040 thou dost. There was another priest joined 280 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,880 in the conversation. Nothing is obscure to us. 281 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:10,840 It is we the Church, who gave, who gave the Scriptures. 282 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,040 We explain them. This is William Tyndale. 283 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:18,120 Imagine sitting at the table now these are leading clerics of the 284 00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:19,880 Roman Catholic Church in that day. 285 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:24,360 And this is what he said. Do you know who taught the 286 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:31,440 eagles to spy out the prey? The same God teaches the hungry 287 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:35,760 children to spy out their Lord and trace the path for their 288 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,480 feet. And As for you, far from having 289 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,560 given us the scriptures, it is you that have hidden the 290 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:48,040 scriptures from us. It is you who would burn those 291 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:53,160 who would teach the scriptures. I And if you could burn the 292 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,840 scriptures themselves, you would. 293 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,200 That was a great conversation, wasn't it? 294 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:05,760 Tyndale was a man of the book, a man of one book, and he gave his 295 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,680 life out of love for the Word of God. 296 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:14,400 He was a an excellent scholar, a wonderful Bible translator with 297 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:18,280 a love for the word of God. Oh, that we had translators of 298 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,560 the Holy Scriptures like Tyndale. 299 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,120 Today we don't, but oh, that we did. 300 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:30,160 That's William Tyndale, the man. Secondly, William Tyndale, his 301 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,720 mission, you see, during his time at Little Sudbury Manor 302 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,320 there developed in William's heart and mind a burning desire 303 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,720 and a compulsive burden to translate the Bible into 304 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,640 English, not from Latin, but from the original Greek. 305 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,960 Now at that time there was the law of prohibition forbidding 306 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,720 such a thing. The prohibition was imposed by 307 00:21:53,920 --> 00:22:00,440 the Convocation of Canterbury. This is what he said. 308 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:05,440 I perceive my experience how that it is impossible to 309 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:12,560 establish the laypeople in any truth except the Scriptures were 310 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:16,000 plainly before their eyes, in their mother tongue. 311 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:25,560 His goal, his mission, his long time ambition was to translate 312 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,040 the Bible from Greek into English. 313 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,960 He realised that it was not going to happen at Little 314 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,280 Sodbury Manor in the home of John Walsh. 315 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,440 He didn't feel that it was a safe retreat any longer. 316 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:45,000 He was being ridiculed, he was being reviled. 317 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:51,560 So in July 1523, after two years, he left for London. 318 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:53,880 Now he sought out the Bishop of London. 319 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:59,440 Where do you hear this? Colbert Tunstall. 320 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:05,760 And he chased him, wouldn't give him any help, refused him 321 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,720 lodgings and refused him help to translate the Bible. 322 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,280 And then he became the guest of a godly merchant, a man by the 323 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,960 name of Humphrey Monmouth. And in his home, the home of 324 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:24,080 Henry Monmouth, where there was a tremendous library, there, the 325 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:28,360 translation work of translating the Word of God into English 326 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,560 began. It was there in Monmouth Library 327 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:36,280 that our our William Tyndale read the works of Martin Luther. 328 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,480 Now he only stayed a short time there. 329 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,680 I'm not sure if why. Perhaps life again was 330 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,640 difficult. Maybe he felt it wasn't safe. 331 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:51,800 But he left in May 1524. Can you think of this? 332 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,440 Doctor David Allen called him the apostle of England. 333 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:01,600 He left England, he left his English land and his English 334 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:05,680 loved ones and people and he never ever seen them again. 335 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:12,320 He went to Europe, went to Hamburg, continued his work, 336 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:17,080 translating the Scriptures from Erasmus Greek edition of 1522, 337 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:21,080 first published in 1516. And then there was a few 338 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:25,760 corrections, and it was the 1522 edition. 339 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:32,800 And as I've told you, by October 1525, he had completed the 340 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,000 translation of the New Testament. 341 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,240 He went to Cologne. He entered into an arrangement 342 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,720 with one of the town's printers, a man by the name of Peter 343 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:47,680 Quintel. In the same town there was 344 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,320 another man, a bitter opponent, a man by the name of Johan 345 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:55,920 Dobnek. He tried to frustrate the work. 346 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,760 And one time they were in, we'll call it a public house or a 347 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,600 restaurant, and they were having lunch. 348 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,840 And of course, the wine was flowing, for they didn't 349 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:09,160 probably have water in those days, Johan Dobnek overheard. 350 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,080 Peter Quinn tells printers boast confidently. 351 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:18,280 Soon England would be Lutheran. He pied them with more wine. 352 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:22,200 Here boys have another drink. We get them another glass. 353 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,240 And he learned there was 3000 copies of the New Testament 354 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,240 translated into English that were already printed. 355 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,840 Johann Dobneck was a latter day Judas. 356 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,760 He revealed the plot to the Senator of Cologne, Herman 357 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,160 Rhinek, a man well known to Henry the Eighth, an Emperor 358 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,840 Charles the 5th. It was investigated. 359 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:51,040 He obtained a needing to stop the work, news reached the years 360 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,320 of Tyndale. He rushed to the printers, 361 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:57,000 seized the precious manuscripts, left the 3000 copies, couldn't 362 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,200 carry them with them, and fled by ship up the Rhine to Worms. 363 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,480 Worms, of course, was a Lutheran stronghold at that time. 364 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:09,320 And here the work recommenced. And at the Press of a man by the 365 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:15,320 name of Peter Chauffeur. 6000 copies were printed and ready 366 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,720 for distribution. Do you know the Bible tells us 367 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,440 this? Be not weary in well doing, for 368 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,520 in due season we shall reap if we faint not. 369 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,560 Galatians chapter 6. And in the verse 9. 370 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,040 And what tremendous encouragement. 371 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,680 And let us not be weary and well doing, for in due season we 372 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:42,400 shall reap if we faint not. See, Tyndale refused to give up. 373 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,400 The New Testaments began to flow into England. 374 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:51,360 There was customs cheques in those days like there is in our 375 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:53,840 day. They were in bales of cloth, 376 00:26:55,920 --> 00:27:01,880 barrels, sacks of flour, cases of every kind. 377 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,720 They would seal up the Thames to Humphrey Monmouth's Wharf. 378 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,960 He had a Wharf underneath Callan Street station. 379 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,320 You see, God was at work and the Bibles were widely circulated. 380 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:22,720 The joy and comfort of sharing the Holy Scriptures was blessing 381 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,360 the people. Of course, the devil was mad. 382 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,760 Cardinal Wolsey. He took steps to suppress the 383 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:32,400 seditious book. Fisher Fisher, Bishop of 384 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,680 Rochester, was charged to preach at Saint Paul's Cross on the 1st 385 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:41,360 of February 1526, denouncing the book has been full of dangerous 386 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:43,880 heresies. At the end of the service they 387 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,880 brought out the New Testaments and burnt them. 388 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,080 But these denunciations, these burnings, only helped to 389 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:55,480 increase the demand. Remember Bishop Tunstall that I 390 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,600 mentioned, the Bishop of London? He hired a London merchant to 391 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,960 buy all the copies he could find in Antwerp, bring them to 392 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,760 England to be burned at Saint Paul's Cross. 393 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:12,880 This is what this man did. That merchant made a deal with 394 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,000 William Tyndale. He told William Tyndale what 395 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:22,560 Bishop Tunstall was up to, and Bishop Tunstall ended up paying 396 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:28,480 for William Tyndale's Bibles to come into England and he didn't 397 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,560 even know it. William Tyndale's Penn was busy 398 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,960 at this time. He answered his critics. 399 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,760 He called Cardinal Woolsey Taifus the cardinal. 400 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:45,200 He called Thomas Murr, the pro creator of purgatory. 401 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,120 Thomas Wolfe See, he called them. 402 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:53,120 He called the bishops blind buzzards, shameless hypocrites. 403 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:59,720 And in 1531, his life and freedom was in jeopardy. 404 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,680 You know, this man was living in the continent like a fugitive. 405 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,000 He went up and down the Rhine few days here, a few days here, 406 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,760 a week, a month. The Low Countries had become a 407 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,440 very dangerous place and eventually settled in Antwerp. 408 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,760 He became the guest of a certain Thomas Points. 409 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,360 Don't think it's any connection with points past, but I must 410 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,160 look it up. Thomas Points. 411 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:27,360 OK. And he was a warm and true 412 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,640 friend of William Tyndale, Thomas Points. 413 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,320 He was a godly man. He was able to offer protection. 414 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,360 You see, he had a privileged house and his house could not be 415 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,360 searched. Any citizen that lived in his 416 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,440 house or any guest could not be arrested inside. 417 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,040 His house could be outside, but not inside. 418 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:49,920 William Tyndale there was safe. Now it's interesting what 419 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:59,440 happened because here in this safe place, in this home of 420 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:05,360 points, he was able to continue his revision and his translation 421 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,280 work. I want to close tonight with 422 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:10,920 this. Our time has almost gone. 423 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:18,240 William Tyndale the martyr. In May 1535, plans were laid to 424 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:22,240 lured Tyndale away from Thomas Point's house. 425 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,840 A man by the name of Henry Phillips pretended to be a 426 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:31,280 friend, a confidant. He he pretended to convert to 427 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:36,760 the Protestant 'cause he invited Tyndale, over a period of time 428 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,160 after befriending him, to join him for dinner at a certain 429 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,680 place outside Thomas Point's house. 430 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:47,440 Tyndale accepted this man. Henry Phillips even said that 431 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,920 Tyndale, would you lend me a few pound and they'll pay you back. 432 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,280 And William Tyndale, of course, lent them a few # but it was all 433 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,680 a ruse, never going to pay him back. 434 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:01,680 He knew what was happening. Tyndale left his house one night 435 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:07,120 in May 1535, and as he left that safe retreat, he was seized by 436 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,520 two officers. They were stationed outside the 437 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,040 narrow entrance to Thomas Point's house. 438 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:19,480 He was arrested and taken to Vilvoorte Castle in Belgium and 439 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,840 there he spent this final almost 18 months in prison. 440 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,000 He wrote his final letter to the Marquis of Bergen. 441 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:32,080 Here's a wee insight into the manner of life that the William 442 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,760 Tyndale had. Here's a wee insight into his 443 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,720 faith. Here's a wee insight into his 444 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,960 strength. Even the new death was round the 445 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,680 corner. In one of his letters we give a 446 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,600 wee view of life in a cell. He begged his lordship to give 447 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,200 him a cap because he suffered from the cold. 448 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,640 He talked about suffering perpetual guitar. 449 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,760 He asked for a warmer coat, a piece of cloth to patch his 450 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,760 leggings, a warm shirt because his shirt was worn out. 451 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,760 A lamp in the evening because it wasn't nice to sit alone in the 452 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,040 darkness. A Hebrew Bible, a Hebrew 453 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,520 grammar, and a Hebrew dictionary. 454 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,640 It's not reminiscent of the Apostle Paul. 455 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,520 Remember what the Apostle Paul asked for. 456 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,000 The cloak that I left that throw us with carpets will now come us 457 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:24,280 bring with thee and the books, but especially the parchments. 458 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,840 There was no window in the sail. The snow blew in the rain come 459 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,200 in. There was no fire or central 460 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,480 heating. There was a few rats. 461 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:39,440 And yet into that very sail, William Tyndale had the joy of 462 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:44,000 leading the prison guard and his daughter and seeing them 463 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:50,520 converted. At the end of July 1536, he was 464 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:54,720 condemned as a heretic. He was defrapped from the 465 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,520 priesthood, handed over to the secular authorities for 466 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:05,000 punishment of death. On October the 6th, 1536, he was 467 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:10,160 taken to the place of execution. He was tied to the stake and 468 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,280 Aaron Chain was put around his waist. 469 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,240 A hemp cloth and a noose was round his neck. 470 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:23,360 A pile of straw and faggots of wood were put around his feet 471 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,080 till only his head was nearly seen. 472 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,680 He was asked if he would like to pray one final prayer, and this 473 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,520 was his prayer before he died. Lord open the King of England's 474 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,720 eyes. At that prayer the rope was 475 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:45,280 wrenched tight from behind, life was forced from his frail body, 476 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:52,440 the kindling was lit with the torch, and he burned his body at 477 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,760 the stake. A faithful martyr. 478 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:04,240 Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of 479 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,280 life. You. 480 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,239 From his prison cell he wrote to a friend, John Firth. 481 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:14,400 He was also in a prison cell in England, and he said this to 482 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,760 John Firth. For I call God to record against 483 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,560 the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus to give a 484 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:27,960 reckoning of our doings, that I have never altered 1 syllable of 485 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:32,400 God's word against my conscience, nor would I this 486 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:38,280 day, if all that is in the earth, whether it be pleasure, 487 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:45,679 honour or riches be given me. What a testimony. 488 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:51,199 Now we have talked about William Tyndale the man, William Tyndale 489 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,120 the mission, William Tyndale the martyr. 490 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,440 Let me finish. Bear with me please. 491 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:04,120 William Tyndale, the memory. I've really been struck. 492 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,360 The psalmist said, Oh how I love thy law. 493 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:15,280 I think of this precious book. Do you know that 90% of this 494 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:21,160 book that we call the King James Bible came from the pain of 495 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:28,400 William Tintin? This is a blood stain book. 496 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:38,560 Whenever we live in our day, we live in a land of Christ 497 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:45,480 deniers, Bible deniers, and God would say to us, be thy 498 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:50,440 faithful, and he may call some of us to be faithful unto death, 499 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,040 like 10 deal to receive a martyr's crown. 500 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:57,680 And let's not lower the standard, let's not compromise, 501 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:02,520 let's not join with our enemies. We need to be faithful unto 502 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:07,120 Christ, to stand for Christ, to speak for Christ, to show 503 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:11,720 Christ. Will you be faithful? 504 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,200 Remember William Tyndale's prayer. 505 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,480 Lord, open the King of England's eyes on the very same year that 506 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:27,200 he died, 1536, under Archbishop Cramer, now the man who received 507 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:33,040 the confession from Thomas Billney about salvation, he 508 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:41,160 petitioned Canterbury and the King for an English Bible. 509 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:48,920 In the very same year, King Henry, he gave royal warrant for 510 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,000 one Bible in every church in England. 511 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,640 It was known as the chain Bible. Do you know why they chained it? 512 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,040 In case somebody would steal it. And people were flocking to the 513 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:04,360 House of God in England, all over the country, and someone to 514 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:08,120 read in the Scriptures and they were sitting this night to that 515 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:14,880 precious word of God. And that chain Bible was also, 516 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:19,400 remember, based upon William Tyndale's work. 517 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,960 We still benefit from William Tyndale's work 500 years on. 518 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,400 What about the Old Testament you asked? 519 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,640 As we finish, most of the Old Testament was translated by 520 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:34,480 William Tyndale before he died. The manuscripts were available 521 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,920 to a man by the name of John Rogers. 522 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,480 And that that that became part then of the Matthew Bible of 523 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:47,800 1537 and right down to 1611 to to the King James Bible. 524 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:58,200 William Tyndale's memory, 90% of our Bible stained with the blood 525 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,400 of William Tyndale came from his pen. 526 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:06,040 And I say this as I finish David said, oh, I love thy law. 527 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,880 And if I have a prayer for the free Church, for this church, 528 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,280 all our congregations at home abroad, for the Church of the 529 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,760 first born in Northern Ireland, is this that we would rediscover 530 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:23,080 the power and the preciousness and the purity of the Word of 531 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,560 God? May the Lord answer prayer 532 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:30,680 tonight for his glory. Thank you for coming. 533 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:31,600 Thank you for listening.