by: Dr. Bob Gray Sr.
Matthew 5:18, “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled.”
Luke 16:17, “And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.”
1 Kings 8:56, “Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.”
I not only believe in plenary inspiration, which is the complete canon of living Scripture from eternity past to eternity future, I believe in verbal inspiration, which is an every living Word Bible from eternity past to eternity future, but I also believe in “jot” inspiration and “tittle” inspiration. A jot and a tittle would be like an accent mark such, as we would use to emphasis a syllable. God is saying not only will not one word pass away, but also not one accent shall pass away or not one punctuation will pass away.
In 1 Kings 8:56 when it speaks of Moses His servant, He is speaking of the first five books of the Scriptures called the Pentateuch. This is not two weeks after the Pentateuch has been written for this is 2,500 years later! This verse was written as close to the Pentateuch as we are to the human penning of the New Testament.
Miraculously for almost 2,500 years God’s Word has contained preserved inspiration and God said not one word has failed. The word “failed” could be defined “diminished, changed,” or “fallen.” It is exactly as it was in Moses’ day!
The Longview Baptist Temple of Longview, Texas, has for 50 years, as of the writing of this article, been a church of the King James Bible. That church was built on the King James Bible.
In the first three centuries after Christ, ten times the Roman Empire attempted to stamp out the Word of God. Today the Roman Empire is buried in the cemetery of kingdom failures and the Holy Scriptures live on! In the eighth century Mohammedism tried to exterminate the Scriptures and it only led to it’s spreading to the rest of the world. Nero ordered its destruction, and Nero is in Hell and the Scriptures live on. Hitler said he would he would destroy the Bible, and Hitler is dead while the Bible lives on. Stalin said he would trample God’s Word under his feet. Today Stalin’s feet are turned to dust and the Bible marches on. Lenin said the Bible would cease to exist in his day. Lenin ceased to exist while the Scriptures live on. Thomas Payne said the Bible would cease to be printed in his lifetime, but after he died they printed Bibles on his own printing press. Voltaire tried to destroy the Bible. Today Voltaire is dead and in Hell while the Bible lives on. Khrushchev tried to destroy the Bible and Khrushchev is dead while the Bible lives on. Mussolini tried to destroy the Bible and he is dead and the Bible lives on. Nebuchadnezzar attempted to destroy the Word of God and he has been dead for several thousand years while the Bible still lives on. Herod tried to destroy the Bible and Herod is history while the Bible is still prophecy.
In our day secular universities are trying to destroy the Bible. Long after secular professors are in Hell the Bible will still live on. Thomas Nelson publishers have unwittingly tried to destroy the Scriptures with Bible perversions, and long after Nelson Publishers are a sentence in history, the King James Bible will still be alive for the English-speaking people. Broadman Press, Zondervan Publishers, Southern Baptist Seminaries, so-called Christian colleges, and Bible Institutes have attempted to pervert, add too, take away, revise, change the Scriptures, and after they have failed the King James Bible will live on!
This King James Bible is the only eternal book in existence. This Bible is not all that God has said, but all in this book is what God had said! In Heaven God’s people will be able to spend an eternity not only on what God wrote, but also all that God has said! WOW, what a thought!
Every word in the Scriptures is what God has said, and it is the only eternal book in existence. Matthew 24:35, “Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away.” Psalm 119:89, “Forever Oh LORD thy word is settled in heaven.”
Someone said Paul wrote his part of the Bible in his own style. NO! God wrote the entire Bible in His style and made men like Paul to write it in the same style! Then some big theologian comes along and tries to make the rest of us feel bad and coined the phrase “mechanical dictation.” Now, it does not matter what you desire to call it. This King James Bible is the Word of God for the English-speaking people.
1 Peter 1:23, “The word of God which liveth and abideth for ever.”
Matthew 13:31, “Heaven and earth shall pass away but my word shall not pass away.”
I Peter 1:25, “The word of God endureth forever.”
Isaiah 40:8, “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”
Matthew 5:18, “One jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law.”
Luke 21:33, “My word shall not pass away.”
The Scripture is the only writing that will endure forever. When the kingdoms, dictators, kings, and presidents of this world are history the Scriptures will still be alive. When the mountains have been leveled and the valleys have been raised, and when kingdoms have crumbled the Scriptures will still be alive.
Yet, it sits in your house closed up while you listen to talk show hosts’ statements about life! American Christians listen more to the words of Hollywood than they do the words from Heaven.
Some will not enjoy Heaven because your favorite reading material will be missing from Heaven. Your romance novels will not be there. Your National Enquirer will not be there. You really ought to use to the Scriptures because that is all that will be sold at the newsstands of Heaven. If you don’t enjoy the preaching of God’s Word here or the teaching of God’s Word here what makes you think you will enjoy Heaven. If you do not enjoy what God says here, what makes you think you will enjoy what God says there in Heaven? You will spend an eternity listening to Moses teach a course on the Pentateuch. Paul will be teaching the Epistles, David the Psalms, Solomon the Proverbs, John the I, II, and III John, Isaiah teaching the major prophets, Hosea teaching the minor prophets, Job teaching on patience, Paul teaching church history, David teaching music, Philip teaching soul winning, and Jack Van Impe learning Bible prophecy! Ha! Like it or not, you and I will spend an eternity with the Scriptures.
By His Word He created the earth.
By His Word He lifted the Rockies.
By His Word He elevated the Alps.
By His Word He painted the deserts.
By His Word He made the mighty Amazon.
By His Word He whittled out the Mississippi.
By His Word He filled the oceans.
By His Word He powered the lakes.
By His Word He lowered the valleys.
By His Word He leveled the plains.
By His Word He rounded the hills.
By His Word He chiseled Gibraltar.
By His Word islands were resurrected form watery graves.
By His Word He formed the pillars of the clouds.
By His Word He scented the Gardenia.
By His Word He painted the rose.
By His Word He arranged the daffodils.
By His Word He formed Diamond Head.
By His Word He formed the Grand Canyon.
By His Word He formed Carlsbad Cavern.
By His Word He stilled the stormy winds.
By His Word He calmed the nervous seas.
By His Word He gave sight to blind Bartimaeus.
By His Word He raised Lazarus from the dead.
By His Word He directed a fish to swallow a coin.
By His Word He called that fish to Himself.
By His Word He caused that fish to vomit up that coin.
By His Word He healed the cripple at the Pool of Bethesda.
By His Word He expelled devils.
By His Word He feed 5,000 with 5 loaves & 2 fishes.
By His Word He turned the water into wine.
By His Word He commanded devils.
By His Word He opened deaf ears.
By His Word He resisted Satan’s temptations.
By His Word He healed crippled legs.
By His Word He gave intelligence to mute tongues.
By His Word He postponed a funeral.
By His Word He cast devils into hogs.
By His Word He caused those hogs to commit hog-a-cide.
By His Word the sun rises and sets.
By His Word the moon changes its shape.
By His Word the rain falls.
By His Word the snow tiptoes to the Earth.
By His Word the lightening gives off a great fire works display in the heavens.
By His Word the applause is given by the thunder for those fire works.
By His Word He laid the foundation of the Earth.
By His Word He laid Earth’s cornerstone.
By His Word He drops the morning dew.
By His Word he sends the hoary frost from heaven.
By His Word the raven is sent with a lunch.
By His Word He painted the wings of the Peacock.
By His Word He commands the eagle in its flight.
By His Word He shakes the Earth into a quake.
By His Word He files the flight plan for the birds.
By His Word He determines where the birds will fall.
By His Word He charts the watery journey of every fish that swims.
By His Word He leads the instinct of every beast in the field.
By His Word He chose to give us the mighty lion.
By His Word He chose to amuse us with the funny hippo.
By His Word He chose to startle us with the strange giraffe.
By His Word He gave us fruit.
By His Word He gave us vegetables.
By His Word He created man in His own image.
By His Word He created the loveliest of all creatures…the horse (No! It was woman!)
She was adorned with all of Heaven and Earth. All that Heaven and Earth could bestow upon her to make her amiable. Every gesture possessed dignity and love. Perfection stamped upon her manner. The sons of God shouted for joy. The morning stars sang together. Eden was transformed. The earth was glad. The Garden was wowed. The hermit signed, and the woman smiled!
CREATION VIA GOD’S WORD
The first day God divided light from darkness by His Word. The second day He divided the waters above from the waters beneath by His Word. On the third day plant life appeared by God’s Word. On the fourth day the sun, moon, and the stars were made visible by His Word. Then on the fifth day God created the beast of the field by His Word. On the sixth day He created man, and the ever living and never dying Word of God created woman by His Word for all!
LIVING VIA GOD’S WORD
Psalm 119:11 tells us His Word keeps His children from sin. Psalm 119:28 says He keeps us strong. 1 Peter 2:2 says His Word helps us to grow in grace. 2 Peter 1:4 tells us His Word makes me a partaker of His divine nature. Acts 20:32 says His Word builds us up. 2 Timothy 3:6 says His Word reproves, corrects, and instructs.
God’s Scriptures tell me when I am doing wrong, it gives me the right things to do, and then teaches me how to do what is right!
Hebrews 4:12 says His Word gives me proper thoughts. Proverbs 25 tells me that His Word shields. Joshua 1:8 says His Word makes me prosperous and successful. Psalm 119:165 says His Word keeps me from being offended. Luke 1:70, 79 says His Word gives me peace. John 8:32 says His Word gives me freedom. In Psalm 119:105 it says His Word is a lamp to my feet and a light unto my path. In Proverbs 4:20-22 it says the Word gives me health.
One book called the Scriptures, which most have not the time to read and is closed while endless hours of TV are watched. It is kept closed by most and read less than the daily newspaper. The Scriptures will do you more good than health clubs, motivational books, success seminars, AA, Robert Schuler or Norman Vincent Peale. The Scriptures will do more for you than the Promise Keepers, TBN, PTL, or the 700 Club will ever do for you, and there it sits closed collecting dust.
In light of all of this, what makes us think we can rear our children without it, have a marriage without it, run a business without it, have education without it, have a country without it, build a ministry without it, and build a local church without it?
If marriage were God’s institution then who would know best how to do it…you or God? If our children are given to us by God, then who would know best about how to rear them…you or God? If the New Testament church were God’s church, then who would know best how to run it…you or God? Are finances a blessing from God? Then who would know best how to handle them…you are God?
We cannot have a successful government by kicking the Word of God out! The public school system is not fit for a dog! Why? The Word of God was expelled! No one can run a business, school, home, marriage, government, church, college, or nation without the Holy Scriptures!
You can have your “word of knowledge,” I will take the Word of God! You can have your “visions” for I will take the Word of God! You can have your “possibility thinking,” I will take the Word of God. You can have your NIV, NASV, NJV, Readers’ Digest Condensed Version, Philips Translation, Goodspeed translation, Amplified New Testament, Book of Mormon, Koran, etc., but I will stick with the Holy Scriptures. Just give me the indestructible, all-powerful, eternal, undefeatable, inexhaustible, and verbally inspired Word of God, for not one Word has failed, nor jot or tittle shall pass away. The English-speaking people have a preserved, inspired, jot and tittle, every Word King James Bible to read and use!
PROPHECY VIA GOD’S WORD
Russia will come on Palestine because she wants the rich oil deposits in the Middle East especially the Dead Sea. Libya, Germany, Turkey, Iran, and others will march with Russia on little Israel.
When that happens America will come to Israel’s defense. The Revived Roman Empire will be led by America and from a Western Coalition. This Coalition will fight with Russia on the mountains of Israel. America will be winning the battle when Russia will seek help from the East. China and Japan will come to attack little Israel. Russia and her Allies from the north with China and Japan from the East and the Western Alliance will come against each other, but this is not the Battle of Armageddon. The Western Alliance will win this battle for Israel.
A man called the antichrist, or man of sin, will rise up and be the dictator of all the Earth. This will be the beginning of the seven-year tribulation period. He will look to the South and say, “I’ve conquered the South!” He will look to the North and say, “I’ve conquered the North!” He will look to the West and say, “I’ve conquered the West!” He will look to the East and say, “I’ve conquered the East!”
However, there is one place He forgets to look and that is up. The sky shall open and Jesus Himself with all of the saints of God will come back on white horses. How will Jesus destroy the forces of the antichrist? Will it be with bombs, planes, guns, or the Atom Bomb? No! With the Spirit of His mouth He will speak and the battle will be won!
Revelation 19:13-15, “And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.”
JUST A THOUGHT!
Dr. Bob Gray Sr.
Pastor Emeritus
Longview Baptist Temple
Longview, TX
http://solvechurchproblems.com