Contents

1. Forward By Dr. Dennis Corle

2. Introduction

3. Chapter 1

1. Walking In Agreement With God’s Word

4. Chapter 2

1. God Is As Good as His Word

5. Chapter 3

1. The Literal and Living Word

6. Chapter 4

1. The Tenor of The Words

7. Chapter 5

1. The Holy Spirit And The Words

8. Chapter 6

1. Idle Words

9. Chapter 7

1. Doctrinal Dementia and The Word

10. Chapter 8

1. Adding To God’s Words

11. Chapter 9

1. Common Words and Terms Used by Independent

12. Chapter 10

1. Good Sounding Words Are Not Always Good

13. Chapter 11

1. The Silencing Power Of The Word

14. Chapter 12

1. The Immutability of God’s Word

15. Chapter 13

1. One And The Word

16. Chapter 14

1. The Word Removed From Hearts

17. Chapter 15

1. Words: The Substance of all things.

18. Chapter 16

1. A Final Word of Warning

Words The Tools Of Our Trade

Copyright-2012

Hilltop Publications

Timothy S. Luchon

Pastor of Hilltop Baptist Church, Hunker, Pennsylvania

B.T, Th.M.

This book is copyrighted only to preserve the author’s right to his own work. Any part of this work may be used for teaching without the author’s permission. All that is asked is that proper credit be given, and that no other Bible other than the King James be used in conjunction with this work.

The only Scripture quotations used, copied, and believed to be true in the English language are taken from The King James Bible.

Printed by Hilltop Publications,

United States of America

First Printing 2013

Forward By Dr. Dennis Corle

I am writing to recommend Brother Luchon’s book on Words the Tools of Our Trade. In this manuscript, he has done an excellent job of showing the importance of understanding the words of the Bible and their definition. The book will be a great help to any Bible student, Sunday School teacher, or preacher. If you understand the words, you understand the phrases. If you understand the phrases, you understand the sentences. If you understand the sentences, you understand the verses. If you understand the verses, you understand the chapters. If you understand the chapters, you understand the books. If you understand the books, you understand the Bible. The most basic element in Bible study is understanding the words.

Dr. Dennis Corle

Introduction

Jeremiah 23:29 “Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?”

When we read the words in God’s Inspired, and Perfectly Preserved Bible, we say, “God speaks to us.” Today, the written Word of God is the only direct means of communication from The Creator to man. The words recorded in The LORD’s Book are truly the verbal expressions of the eternal thoughts of The Almighty Author. He inspired and authorized each one of those chosen words knowing the soul, heart, mind, attitude, and the spiritual condition of every person who would write, hear or read His words. Upon hearing a word from God’s Book, to some, it causes the burn of conviction which becomes the source of great blessing. To another who also hears that word, but will not allow its power to build them; The LORD uses that same word only to break them.

Isaiah 55:11 “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”

We, who believe God’s Word is Inspired and Perfectly Preserved, understand that if we use the words God put in His Book, that they will accomplish The LORD’s purpose. That purpose is basically twofold: To be a blessing if received, or to be The Judge if rejected.

As we teach and preach from His Word, we do not have the ability to choose which of these effects will be the case for those who hear us. But we can be an influence in the outcome of how a person hears God’s Word: by how we use words while preaching or teaching God’s Word.

God has given command to all the saved to go and be involved in the preaching of His Gospel as far as to the lost. Some of those whom He has commanded to go, have also been called by God, ordained, and set apart: authorized exclusively to the work of using words as tools to build lives.

As a hammer is a tool of the carpenter; so the words in God’s Book are truly, the tools of our trade.

T.S. Luchon

Chapter 1

Walking In Agreement With God’s Word

II Corinthians 6:15-16 “And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

A true Bible believer chooses by faith to be in “…agreement…” with every word which God has written in His Book. We have respect for, and will not tamper with, the choice, placement, or the arrangement of His recorded words. We come to read and to the study of His Bible in faith; and God rewards us with wonderful things from His Word for doing so. We who believe and understand these things received them from God’s Words… not from a theology altered by man. The testimony of the writer of this book is that he learned The Bible’s Doctrine of The Faith from a Concordance; and not from the rudiments of a theology book built upon the footnotes of self or seminary proclaimed scholars. We have made a conscious choice to be and to stay in full “…agreement…” with the words as they are written in The King James Bible.

As found in the Scripture for this chapter, God used a word that He wrote only one time in His Book. That is the Inspired and preserved word “...concord...” If a born again sinner is ever to truly be in “…agreement…” with God, then the Bible word “...concord...” needs to be in the verbal arsenal of a Bible believer’s vocabulary. This great word must be the guide of the heart of all who teach and preach God’s Word. The meaning and relevance of “...concord...” must be understood in relation to communicating to people about God. We, who speak from God’s Written Words, must agree with and be of the same mind, with the words of His choosing. If not, we are out of “...concord...”with God, and in “...concord...” with falsehood.

Look at the definition of the word “…concord…”

Agreement between persons; union in opinions, sentiments, views or interests; peace; harmony.

Agreement between things; suitableness; harmony.

A compact; an agreement by stipulation; treaty.

In law, an agreement between the parties in a fine, made by leave of the court.

In grammar, agreement of words in construction.

Also found in the word “…concord…” is the word syntax. Consider this definition also.

In grammar, the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences, according to established usage.

The agreement and government of words.

Connected system or order; union of things.

When a Bible believer understands the word “…concord…” he by faith chooses to be in “…agreement…” with God and each word of God; its usage, placement in His Book, and each word’s relationship to all the other words of God’s authorship!

Spend some time applying the definition of this word to the issue of God’s Book, and you too will marvel at God: The Creator and Author of the tools of words!

Today, many are being subtly and deviously lead to distrust anything that God has said or written. With all the differing so-called written versions of the Bible, the evil one is constantly attempting to discredit the honesty of God by planting his “...corruptible...” seeds (I Peter 1:23), into the thinking of many, even the saved.

I think it is fair to say, that most preachers who claim to be saved, would never openly accuse God of not being true to His Word. But in actions and attitudes, concerning the perfection of the words in the Bible, many of these “...ministers of righteousness...”(II Corinthians 11:15), dishonor God’s honesty; every time they open their mouth with the words of a false bible as the basis for their understanding. By their use of “...feigned words...” (II Peter 2:3) and “...fair speeches...”(Romans 6:18a), these “...deceitful workers...” (II Corinthians 11:13), “...deceive the hearts...” (Romans 16:18b), of those who do not understand or who have no respect for the word “...concord...”

A true born again believer who trusts in and on the Perfection, Inspiration, and Preservation of “...every word of God...” (Luke 4:4), has a very hard time understanding how a saved person can agree with those who think God could possibly have two differing versions of His Book. We have settled our choice; to stay in “...concord...” with The Words of God’s Authorship; and to “...keep...” (as in guard them), as they were once given and once received!

In John 17:8, The Lord Jesus, THE WORD in flesh, said of His Apostles, “For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them...” If any preacher (or any other person), does not do the same, they are in “...concord... with Belial...” That name “...Belial...” in our verse for this chapter, when used in “...concord...” with what God is saying; is absolutely amazing in relation to this subject. It has in its meaning:

To wind and turn, or to depart, to fall away.

Deviating from the divine law.

Pernicious; as wicked words.

When someone in agreement with The Words of God reads the usage of that word, they marvel at the Mind of The Almighty! Those who are not settled on the Words of God being perfectly preserved and inspired are in “...concord with Belial...” And, those who are so, who read this, will attempt to find a verbal way to discredit the truth of what was just written!

Malachi 3:6 “For I am the LORD, I change not...”

Proverbs 24:21 “My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change...”

James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”

Hebrews 6:17-19 “Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast...”

The tools of our trade are God’s Written Words. As He first engraved the first copy of them into the rock of the tablets on the mount; so we must use them to chisel away at the hard hearts of people. We must use the tools He gave to us. We must make a conscious decision to use them better, so we then can be used to point people to the truth.

The Truth never changes. If it does it was never true to begin with. Even if there was the possibility of truth changing...then it could not have had its beginning with The Eternal, Immutable God. It is astonishing how many there are who claim to be God-called preachers, and they do not agree with that truth! Truth and “…concord…” are synonymously one and the same with each other!!!

We believe and agree that it was God Who was solely responsible for the creation of the very first words. We believe and we agree it was The LORD Who also formed the first Languages. We believe and agree He is fully capable to communicate His exact Words to man in any form of His choosing. We believe and we are in full “…agreement…” that God The Author then gave those Words by Inspiration, with Inerrancy, Inerrability and by Preservation, as He caused men to write perfect Written copies of His Word to man. We also believe and we agree, that This same God, is still also in full “…agreement…” with His Spoken and Written Words.

The words that many teachers and preachers speak today seem to be meaning less and less; both to the hearers and from the speakers. It seems much harder to get people to agree with each other…never mind trying to get them to agree with God!

Too often, words spoken are not taken at their face value. It is a common thing to hear someone say, “It literally means.......” Aren’t words meant to be literal at their face value? The words spoken by many today do not hold the credibility they once did, nor does it seem that what is said is expected to carry any real authority. Deceitful people will speak a sentence, and when the hearer listens and questions what was said, the one who spoke the words contradicts their own sentence and proclaims, “That is not what I meant...” and they change what they said only to appease the hearer, or for the soothing of their own conscience. They are not even in “…agreement…” with themselves.

On the other hand, words that are being heard by people often do not seem to connect as well. I have experienced in my own listening, and in how others listen, that many people listen to words, but do so with a preconceived idea that is not in “…agreement…” with what is actually being spoken. Too often, what they hear is naturally limited by what they personally understand about those words. They then attach their own meaning to what they have heard, and often with perplexing and confusing results. This happens when people have differing meanings to the words they are thinking of in their own minds. This is a lack of “...concord...” When they process those thoughts and compare their understanding of the words, with the same words that are being spoken to them by another, misunderstandings occur. This happens all the time, even between the most honest of folks. Preachers, of all people, must be fully aware of this natural human problem.

When two people cannot connect in understanding as they converse, it is because of their lack of “...concord..,” There is not an “…agreement…” in the understanding of the words heard, spoken, or written.

When this happens with people, the results may span from simple frustration to unnecessary arguments; but when it comes to not being in “...concord...” with the meaning and the understanding of the words in The Bible, this could mean the difference between a soul going to Heaven or Hell!

God breathed, spoke, wrote, and has preserved for us every one of His Inspired words in The King James Bible. His exact meaning, intent, and tenor are still in each and every English word in perfect “...concord...” The King James Bible is in perfect “…agreement…” with Its Author!

The very life, eternal life, as is in The God of Heaven, is still in the words chosen from His own vocabulary. Every Bible Believer knows (or should know), that since the Garden of Eden, the devil has set out to disrupt the “...concord...” between God and man with mental, grammatical, and spoken attacks on the words of God’s Authorship. Satan, with his first recorded words: “Yea hath God said..?” has advanced an all-out verbal and cerebral attack on the credibility of the words in The Word of God.

If.... God is The Author of the now hundreds of books; books with thousands of differing words even when compared to each other; books with the words “Holy Bible” on their covers; then there is no relevance for the word “...concord...” For If... there is not one Inspired and Preserved chain of un-mutated (and not mutilated) words in a Bible.... a truly “HOLY” Bible, there is no such thing as “...concord...” When a Bible believer understands the word “...concord...” they too will understand why there is so little “…agreement…” with The God of The Bible, and do their part to help others understand.

We have the verbal ability, and the God-given tools to lead searching people to be able to fully agree with God! If preachers and teachers would be more proficient in the use of God’s Word’s; we will be able to get people to see things God’s way, instead of “our” way. There would be much more “...concord...” among the people of the churches in which we serve; and there will be more “…agreement…” with God.

The word “...concord...” is the basis for the word tool called a Concordance. I believe a Concordance is the best way to study and learn Bible Doctrine. In fact, if the so-called bible scholars, self-titled theologians, and self (or Satan) appointed correctors and critics of God’s Word, would disregard all their critical intellectualism and so-called higher learning; throw away all their footnoted theology manuscripts, burn the degrees given to them by men, and pick up an old King James Bible ‘Concordance,’ and use only it to compare the Words that God wrote.... with only Words that God wrote....they too would finally be able to be in“…agreement…” (If they have The Spirit of God inside), with The Words of The Eternal Author of The Written Word of God.

A Concordance gives no meanings of The Words in God’s Book. A Concordance presents no preconceived or mentally tainted ideas as to what a Word of God’s choosing was meant to say. A Concordance simply shows to the minds of the saved where each word of God is found in His Book. A simple reading of each use of a particular word; will naturally reveal the Authors intent for “…every word.”

Most Seminaries and even some Baptist Bible Colleges would be forced to go out of business if the only Theology taught in such institutions was from a King James English Concordance. Pure truth would be learned instead of the falsehood propagated from the ideas and theology of humanly reformed religion in “…concord…” and in “…agreement…” with “...Belial...”

When any teacher or preacher uses bibles that have no “...concord...” they are not using The Tools God gave to the edification of those who hear them. And by doing so, whether they know it or not; they are causing confusion in minds, hearts, and souls. These are leading people not to be in “…agreement…” with God!

Now, such a teacher or preacher may be sincere; they may be persuasive and charismatic in their human ability to form thoughts with their planned use of words. But if God’s thoughts, from His Words, are not the only basis for any instruction, discord is caused between what God actually wrote, and how man interprets what God wrote.

The people, to whom we speak in our calling, must be lead to read, hear, think, define, and understand only what God wrote! That is how we will lead people to agree with God; which is a “...concord...” in written and in spoken words. If not, then the Truth of God’s Word will not be understood.

Because of apostate theologians and textual critics, Bible correctors and deceivers, who think they are more proficient at placing the right words in God’s sentences than God is... many lost people, and far too many professing believers, have had the evil seed planted in their minds and hearts. They have in them that the Written Word of God is untrustworthy. Now, most of these users of “...feigned words...”(II Peter 2:3) wouldn’t come out and say that the “Word of God is untrustworthy.” They just cast subtle suspicion and doubt on God’s Word because they do not agree with God’s choice and placement of the Words in His Book! Such apostates and infidels will say that “God’s Word was credible back when it was “first written by The Apostles...” but not now, because of translation errors.” With such split tongue verbal assaults, the minds of searching people are scared to callousness in thinking they do not have a credible copy of God’s Book available today in the English language.

The Words we as God-called servants use as teachers and preachers, had better be in “…agreement…” in form and in thought with our LORD’S Words! If not, we too will answer to The Heavenly “...author and finisher of our faith...”(Hebrews 12:2) for causing a lack of “…concord…” with God.

Chapter 2

God Is As Good as His Word

Psalm 89:34-35 “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.”

Because God is as Good as His Word, He will not and cannot “…alter…” anything He has said or written. The Holiness of The Almighty is the basis for which The LORD made this promise. For The Author of The Bible to “…alter…” His Word would render it no more than a lie; and He wrote, “…I will not lie…”

When we use God’s exact words, they have the power in them to bring about the affect God intended in those who hear them. But follow me in an example of what happens to those who are subject to hearing that God is not as Good as one of His chosen words.

Whenever some teacher or preacher, attempting to sound theologically scholarly (now there are two scary words!), says of a word written in God’s Book…

“Now this word would be better rendered as…”

That apostate or deceived individual is being used by Satan to cause an evil and opposite affect by their disrespect for a word of God’s choosing. What they are literally saying, according to the use of the word ‘rendered’ is,

The word they question should be “reduced” to their mind and not to the height of what God’s Mind intended.

They are saying that the word in God’s text should be “condensed.” or “concentrated.”

They are saying that God’s chosen word in that sentence needs to be “purified.”(When it already is!!!)

And, as a usage of the word ‘rendered;’ is that the word he questions should be “extracted:” and a word he thinks to be a better choice should be in its place.

Now I don’t know about you, but in the use of that word ‘rendered,’ I hear the devil causing the exact opposite effect on those who would hear such an unspiritual, egotistical, arrogant, high-minded deceiver!

God’s Book needs no alterations performed by man. God will not “…alter…” His Word. He cannot do so because He has “…sworn…” this to be so. If He will not “…alter…” the Book He wrote; what does that tell a Bible believer about any man or woman or devil who would try?

I love looking at the meanings and how God uses His words in The Bible. Even in seemingly unrelated situations, the usages of His words still all fit in with the whole.

As I looked up the places where God wrote the word “…alter…” I was amazed at the possible applications. In Leviticus 27, God speaks about offerings and how they are holy and not to be altered in any way. They are counted as Holy! The Word of God is His Holy offering to man. Every good thing comes to us from His Word! In Ezra 6, The LORD in speaking of the building of His House makes it clear that nothing of His plan for it shall be altered! He pronounced swift judgment on any who would attempt to do so. Jesus has built His New Testament Churches according to His Word, and no man or woman has the right to “…alter…” or hinder anything about His Church!

It is The Word of God which is the builder of lives and of Churches; and only a fool, a devil, or an apostate would attempt to “…alter…” that basis for all things in existence!

Once you have it settled not to question any of His words; He then is able to do great things from His Word; in definition, context, interpretation, and in applications…and in only that order! Once He placed any word in His Book, or anything was agreed to, according to His Word, to “…alter…” that word is a terrible offence and a sin against God.

God is still just as Eternally Good as His Word! He was fully capable of seeing that every one of His Words has been translated into any language; which, as some seem not to know, He created! When He did so by His overseeing, what had to be said, and how it had to be written in each of those languages, was not altered.

The LORD has given us an English Copy of His Word: pure, perfect, preserved and still infused with His own life and breath in every one of His words. All of which are in eternal “...concord...” with His Infinite Mind!

We must become more proficient in the use of the tools He gave us to use. We must never allow any verbal or literary tools of our choosing to “…alter…” anything in His Book. Amen!

Chapter 3

The Literal and Living Word

John 1:14 “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

The God of Heaven has literally spelled out every word He wanted man to hear. Those words are the tools we are to use in and on the lives of people. Without these literal tools for the basis for our verbal communication with the lost and the saved, God cannot do a work in their hearts. By His Word He sent us to “…preach The Gospel” to all creatures.

His “...gospel...” is thought by many only to mean “good news.” Yes, His spelled out words can result in the hearing of good news; but it also proclaims some very bad news to those who disobey even one of His written words.

To define the word “...gospel...” as meaning only good news is to diminish the power of an amazing tool in God’s Book. This is an example of how a word from God’s authorship is weakened by merely man’s choice of the words when used to explain one of God’s inspired words. The word “…gospel…” could more accurately be explained such as this.

The God Who spelled words, wrote out His Inspired thoughts in a Book, which have been settled forever in Heaven.

Then over time, He gave every one of those Inspired Words to chosen men, and moved them to spell them out. Just as a pen in His hand, they were used to spell out every word as “...given by inspiration of God..,” in a Book on the earth.

God took responsibility to oversee, and to make sure every one of His Inspired Words were spelled out correctly, in many perfectly preserved, written copies for men to read; both in the language of the first copy, and in other languages.

He has written that no matter how He had scribed out, etched, or engraved His words in the copies of His Book; each word still has in it the same Inspiration, the same power to create life, as was in the Book He originally spelled out in Heaven.

As it is spelled out in His Book, He then sent and commanded certain men to proclaim His Words to other men from that Book.

In The New Testament of His Book, He spelled out the foundational theme of His Gospel; to preach the part of His Word where He wrote about the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, so sinners could be born again.

He also wrote for us to use the words He wrote to glorify Him, to cleanse, comfort and to convict. To help churches, and to prepare the members in particular of those churches to stand before Him pure as His Bride.

And there is one more part to the process of God spelling out His Word... He took those Inspired Words and sent them in the person of the Incarnate God: Jesus Christ! The WORD of God in Flesh! The walking, talking, living, breathing, all powerful Son of God: in sinless Human form; Who died, was buried, and rose again according to the Words God has given by inspiration of God and Spelled out through men like the Apostle Paul!!

Now that is The Gospel! If people are told that the word “...gospel...”means only “good news,” they will not be able to receive all that is contained in that Inspired Word!

Jesus is The Word. The Written Word is Jesus in print! God and The Written Word are just as inseparable as The Trinity! How foolish are those who do not see this truth? Our King James Bible is so much more than ink on paper. Its Words are The Voice of God in written form.

A most amazing example of this is found in the words of II Peter 1:16-21. You must keep in mind that the context of these words according to verse 20 of that chapter, is that of the Scriptures being of “…no private interpretation…”

Look at this example of The Scriptures as being compared to The actual voice of God.

“For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts…”

What a truth! Those men heard the “…voice…” of God with their own ears, yet God had them to write that the Scripture: which is The Written Word of God; is “…a more sure word…” Unless a person does not understand English, there is no other way to privately interpret those words! Amen! God can say such things without diminishing His Word. He is setting down The Law which states that His Written Word takes place over even His own voice!

This same principle is also taught in Galatians 1:6-9.

“I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”

God said here that even if the Galatians heard a voice from Heaven that they were not to listen to that voice. They were to listen to the already spelled out Gospel.

God’s Word is both literal and living! To separate one Word from God’s Book, would be a death experienced by all. If The Scripture could be broken, so it would be with God. But He is not capable of not existing! He and His Word...every word of His Bible...Is forever alive and Eternal.

Chapter 4

The Tenor of The Words

Exodus 34:27 “And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.”

If it were possible for a finite mind to fully open up the infinite “...tenor...” of God’s words, the owner of that mind will no doubt find an eternity of meaning contained inside of each of those Inspired Words. As long as we leave each of God’s chosen words in there ordained place in the Scripture, as they were given, as they were placed there, and as they were preserved... without any “...private interpretation...” the applications will be eternally limitless without any chance of contradiction.

As long as we do not change one of His words, and do not change its definition; the “...tenor...” of each of His words will be able to be applied to every situation as needed, address every circumstance, reach every sorrow, heal every heartache, confront every rebel, encourage every discouraged saint, and convict every lost sinner by God’s power!

Many people today are already in major trouble with The Author of The Bible. Some don’t even know it yet. They have changed words, added words, removed words, and redefined God’s words. On top of that, many have the arrogance to plagiarize some of the words of God’s Book, and the audacity to solicit a copyright because of their own changes to God’s Book, and call their literary abominations The Holy Bible! In doing so, every word they change loses God’s “...tenor...”

Just to open up the content of the word “...tenor...” is quite an amazing intellectual tour in words. It takes many words just to define this one word. All of which God knew when He chose this word from His vocabulary.

Pay attention to the italicized words to follow, for they are all part of this one great word.

By it we “understand the speaker’s intention or views.” In each word is the “stamp” of The Divine Authors “character.” His words give us the exact “sense contained” in His mind at the time (Which was then Eternity) of His writing. There is “substance” to His writing. Each individual word seems to be able to “exist by itself,” yet is perfectly set as part of the whole. Every word is “an essential part” of the whole. If it was to be removed, the whole would no longer “exist.” We see His “design” in His placement of a word. His “meaning” is in the context of each word. His “intent” causes the reader to have “set forward in his mind” the same. Each word is “equally applicable to mind and spirit.” Every thought caused by His word is “something real, not imaginary; something solid, not empty.” His words produce hearts, minds, and spirits “endued with thought.” God’s words are the verbal “means of living.” It could be said that God’s words are “the natural pitch of a man’s voice.” They are the “Highest of all male voices.” And in Jesus The Word is the “second part.” In the definition of the Word “...tenor...” are the words “originally the air.” So it even has words that cause us to think of The Holy Spirit of God and His part in giving the words to men! Amen!

Now if you will go and look up every word used to define the word “...tenor...” you will see all this and much more, in just that one little word. With an understanding of just that word alone; how anyone could even think to diminish a word from God’s Authorship, is beyond my ability to comprehend!

If we use other words or terms to explain God’s words, which are often and usually necessary; that is what a preacher is called to do. Even in the first New Testament sermon we are told that as Peter preached that he used not just the Scriptures, but other words to explain them to people. In Acts 2:40 God wrote about this message, “And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying...”

We must be careful with our choice of “...other words...” If we witness to the lost, teach or preach to God’s people, using words or terms which those involved with false doctrine use; The Holy Spirit in us will be grieved. He knows the hurt and the deceit that has been caused by such words. We will hinder the Holy Ghost because of our words. The “...tenor...” of what He desires to put into the minds and the hearts of those who hear us will be lost. The right thoughts will not be created in minds and in spiritual hearts. People who need help from the words we speak will not be helped on a spiritual level.

Most of all, if God’s “...tenor...” is not available because we use a wrong word, or, misuse a right word, The Lord Jesus might lose an opportunity to help those He told us to go and help.

I wonder how much we pay attention to the words we speak as we teach or preach The Bible. It is through the use of words that God has chosen to bring Himself into the lives of people. He does this by causing us to think about Him. If we do not think more of the use of our words, we will cause people to think less about God. Only the “...tenor...” of His words will produce thoughts with eternal results.

In the “...tenor...” of each word in God’s Book is His life. It is that life, and only that life which will transform those who hear us. As we use the tool of words, we must be conscious of wanting the breath of God to settle in the hearts of those to whom we preach!

Chapter 5

The Holy Spirit And The Words

John 14:23-26 “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

II Peter 1:21 “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”

When speaking about the Word of God, The Holy Ghost cannot be left out. Words are the tools used by God to speak to man. But it was The Holy Ghost, The Spirit of truth, Who transferred the words in God’s Book in Heaven, into the minds and guided the hands of men, to write down every word in a copy of God’s Book on Earth. Those men also were truly tools in the hand of The Holy Ghost of God; used to chisel, or to pen down inspired words: God’s verbal, literal, tools. It was The Holy Ghost Who made sure every inspired word in God’s Book was preserved in the copies and into other languages as needed in God’s plan to speak to men.

One of the tasks of The Holy Spirit, is to be the personal teacher of the Bible for every born again believer. He is the greatest teacher of The Word of God.

It is He that applies those words to our hearts, and helps bring them to our minds. He uses those words as His tools, to convict or to comfort, to break us and to build us. It is He who compares “...spiritual things with spiritual.” God’s words are the spiritual tools of His Heavenly trade.

I Corinthians 2:13 “Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”

If a saved individual does not read the inspired and preserved words of God’s Book, The Holy Spirit has no tools to work on and within that life. Many people pray to get saved from the penalty of their sin by faith in Jesus, and then never read a word of an inspired and preserved copy of God’s Book. Many are handed books which have the words “Holy Bible” on the covers; but do not have all of God’s chosen words on the inside. When saved people use such literary perversions, The Holy Spirit of God does not have the proper tools to work with! Each of the individual words in God’s Book are “...spiritual things...” When “...man’s wisdom...” changes one of those “...spiritual things...” or a person does not have a Perfect Bible of just those words, The Holy Ghost cannot teach those words! The Holy One of Israel truly is limited whenever men turn God’s Inspired Book into nothing more than humanly altered literature!

This is also the case when a child of God is handed a so-called Christian helps book which was authored by someone using thoughts generated by a false bible. Now you try and tell me that The Holy Spirit will just overlook the fact that a false set of words were used to produce that literature? Try to convince me that He is not grieved by such disrespect for The Perfect Words in The Bible He brought to the minds of men! If an earthy author does not use The Heavenly Authors Book to get the thoughts for his book; why would one of God’s called men hand a precious soul such literary trash? But many seem to think that as long as they place a little sticker with a disclaimer on it about how they “do not condone the use of another version of the bible” that things are alright with God! Not so! Besides, that disclaimer is a lie in the first place. They are condoning the use of a false bible. They are saying that the author of the book is credible even though he or she got their thoughts and proved their points with perverted bible!

Because of this, I have often wondered how many precious children of God are never built into what The Heavenly Father desires for them to be by the tools of His Holy Word. The Holy Spirit of God is Holy! He cannot use an unholy, false set of words. He is called The Spirit of truth. He cannot teach truth from the”...feigned words...” of a Bible critics mind. This is why so many, who seem to have a testimony of being saved, have so much false and confused doctrines in them. For instance, how is it that a person who says they trusted and asked Jesus, by faith, to give them the gift of eternal life; and yet they think they can lose their salvation??? If The Holy Spirit is in that person’s heart, why don’t they know salvation is an eternal gift?

I believe I know the reason why. In our Bible, The King James Bible, The Holy Ghost had Paul write of Jesus in Hebrews 5:9, “And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;..” If someone claims to be saved today, but thinks they can be unsaved tomorrow; then they have been reading words in a book from the wrong author! Jesus, The Author of only One Book... wrote only of Eternal Salvation!

If in fact The Holy Spirit is in such a confused heart, He has no tools to use in that person to work on helping them to gain the absolute assurance of their salvation. God wrote that when we read His Book, we can “...know...” that we have eternal life.

The Author “...of eternal salvation...” wrote in I John 5:13, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”

The Spirit of God cannot give assurance of salvation from words He did not give!

Many, because of having the wrong tools in the form of words in their minds, are confused as to The Doctrine of The Faith as “...once delivered unto the saints...” (Jude 3) The words given by The Spirit of truth in I Corinthians 14:33 tell us why...

“For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.”

Those who study bibles revised and edited by an author from earth, will be at best confused in their beliefs. Where there should be peace in their hearts, there is turmoil, doubt, and debate over doctrine. The Apostle Paul was a man, and because he had the right words in his mind and heart, he was not confused, and neither were those that heard him teach doctrine! The Holy Ghost had him write in II Timothy 3:10 “But thou hast fully known my doctrine...” What a statement of The Faith! Only The Holy Ghost can teach that, but He needs the right tools in words to do so.

When it comes to the Word of God, and the words in His Book, The Holy Spirit of God is not going to teach from books called Bibles with differing and contradicting words. Men may present those “feigned” words in a very sincere and appealing manner, and may even help some who hear them. But it must be said that if a Hollywood actor can cause people to be moved by a planned performance of words prepared by another, then men in pulpits, trained to speak to people, can do the same. But if The Holy Ghost of God does not have the right tools... words... He is not in the pulpit where the words of another author are present! Amen!

Consider this hypothetical illustration. Imagine with me for a moment, that Jesus visited a church in your town. He went into the pulpit on which were two books with ‘Holy Bible’ on their covers. One was the 400 year old King James Bible; the other was the New International Version. That book has a copyright date. A group of revisers and editors removed or changed over 64,000 words in that book. The words of this new perversion do not match the 400 year old, authorized copy of God’s Book. Many entire verses are missing from the NIV such as I John 5:7, where some author, other than The Lord Jesus, decided to take out the whole verse. In that verse was one of the names of Jesus: “The Word.”

Now, honestly, which Book do you believe Jesus would preach from that day? Someone reading this may think themselves clever and answer, “He would preach from The Original Greek.” I’m sure He could, and all by memory, after all, He is The Author of that set of words too. But the congregation of English speaking people would not benefit from those Greek words, so Jesus would have to follow His own instructions to the Corinthians and interpret what He read from the Greek...And to do that, all The Lord has to do, is to read directly from the perfectly preserved and inspired words of the King James Bible! Amen!

The Holy Ghost of God cannot take so-called bibles with differing words and interpret those books to saved people. He needs the right words to do so!

To translate a word from one language to another requires that the same words are used and not changed from one language to another. If a word, one word is changed or omitted, any proper interpretation is then lost! The original thought of The Author is diminished, erased and is gone...and so is the eternal power in those words. Not only that, the whole book has now been altered...When speaking of the Bible...The Scripture would then be “broken.” It is no longer the same Book.

Here is the lesson in this for us. We must be sure that the words we use are words that do not hinder or limit The Holy Ghost from teaching “...spiritual things...” We must use the tools He needs to communicate to the people who hear us, as we speak about any Bible subject. For instance, if I use a protestant term and expect the Holy Ghost to help me get the point across to someone...He is then limited by my choice of words. If I use a word that I am familiar with, but a person listening is not, then The Holy Ghost may also be hindered from helping that person. But if I define my terms, and explain my words so that that person is literally on the same page concerning God’s Word; now God can do His work in that heart and mind.

I am sure that The Holy Ghost is often hindered because we do not allow Him to work at His full potential when it comes to words. With His help, and with His Word; we can speak with more of His power!

Chapter 6

Idle Words

Matthew 12:36 “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.”

The word “...idle...” in God’s vocabulary is an amazingly timely word when applied to our day. Look at some of the parts of its definition.

Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing.

Slothful; given to rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy.

Affording leisure; vacant; not occupied.

Useless; vain; ineffectual.

Unfruitful; barren; not productive of good.

Trifling; vain; of no importance; as an idle story; an idle reason; idle arguments.

Unprofitable; not tending to edification.

Let’s use this one word, “...idle..,” and apply its usages, to speak of those who do not “...hold...” that the King James Bible is The only perfect Copy of God’s Book in English. Let’s let this one word speak about those who do not respect its “...sound words...” as the very power of God. Let’s let the word “...idle..,” be used to describe those who say, “They use the King James Bible,” but they do not believe in its absolute perfection. Let’s allow the word to be descriptive of the spiritual weakness in a ministry, where people are not taught that it’s translated words still carry in them the same Inspiration, of the first words that The LORD Authored in His Bible, which is “...for ever...” “...settled in heaven.” (Psalm 119:89 KJV)

And above all, this ought to break our hearts for those who do not yet know or understand what we believe concerning the Word of God.

Keep the definition of the word “...idle…” in mind as you read this next paragraph which contains the definition of an “...idle…” word. You will see how it can be applied in the case of a preacher, a Bible teacher, or just someone who attends church with the wrong idea about The Words of The Bible.

Those who attempt to teach or preach, but who do not believe that there is a perfect copy of a Bible, containing every one of God’s Inspired words; although they may be sincere, are not employed in their task by the Author of The Bible. They may be good people, busy in a ministry, but are actually unoccupied with business that can be fully blessed by God’s Spirit. This is because the words which are necessary to bring spiritual power are rendered inactive by their own unbelief. The words they hear are doing nothing to bring about any lasting spiritual cleansing in lives. Many who hold this diminished opinion of the words of the Bible have no real concern for reaching the lost, and are instead slothful; given to rest and ease; wanting only to cause people to hear things that do not cause them to be convicted or uncomfortable. The actions of some who sit under such as these, are many times averse to labor or employment; lazy; they do not want their conscience invaded by things of God that are not affording leisure instead of hard work for God. They live as if the words preached were vacant of the principles of personal holiness. In their private lives, their minds and hearts are not occupied with words that can help to control the emotion and anxiety of their souls. Many count the sermons they hear as useless; vain; ineffectual. When it comes to personally winning souls to trust Jesus as Saviour, these are unfruitful and barren of spiritual births. Many of these do not seem to understand, and are even in despair, of why the majority of their life is not productive of good things. They seem ready to be involved more with things that are trifling; vain; of no importance when it comes to eternity. Much of the Bible they read seems only as an idle story. The counseling they hear is no more than an idle reason that they pass off as not relevant to them. A pastor’s honest pleadings for their wellbeing are nothing more than idle arguments. These become spiritually unprofitable; and, if some of these decide to go into the ministry, they too, by their lack of faith in The Word of God, will use what they consider to be “...idle..” words, only to the hurt of others, and not tending to any edification.

The words we choose to use in our teaching and preaching should never cause nor allow the hearers to be idle listeners!

Chapter 7

Doctrinal Dementia and The Word

James 1:22 “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”

In many cases it is not that God’s people have not learned the Doctrine of The Faith; but because they will not do what the words of that Doctrine demand, many are suffering from a spiritual, self-inflicted degeneration of their minds.

The greatest challenge for a God-called preacher is not only to help the Lord’s people to hear the Word of God; but to be “…doers…” of what they hear.

We can help how people hear perhaps more than we can get them to put the teaching into practice. It is not within our responsibility to force anyone to do what we teach or preach. It is however our responsibility to know how we are using our words with God’s people. If we use words or terms that are associated with false churches or doctrines, we will lose some of the Holy Ghosts help in getting the power in God’s Words to His people. God’s words always have in them the same power that once created the universe as Jesus spoke them. His Gospel always has in it the power to regenerate a dead spirit. But if people who hear those words will not be “...doers of the word...” they will be deceived in and of themselves.

We cannot fully control this tragic plight of Doctrinal Dementia; but we can help people to hear better. We do this by doing our best to give folks every opportunity to hear God’s Word, and with the hearing, challenge them to do what they have heard.

The more God’s words are known, understood, respected, and used, the more faith will be produced in God’s people.

The stronger the faith, the stronger the doctrine. The stronger the doctrine, the more God’s people will practice the Word of God. The more we practice The Word, the less people will deceive themselves. When fewer of God’s people are self-deceived, the less others will be deceived by them. If fewer people are deceived, more people will believe the Word of God. The more people who believe God’s Word, the more lost souls will be saved! Because more people are saved, the more churches will be built. The more churches that are established upon the Word of God, the more lives will be blessed. The more lives that are blessed, the more God will be glorified!

I believe that which will be most responsible for loss of rewards at the Judgment Seat Of Christ, will be the sin of self-deceit brought upon by not doing what God wrote for us to do. When a child of God hears The Word of God taught and preached, week after week, month after month, year after year, and they do not put into practice what they hear; God makes it very clear that they are deceiving themselves.

Many faithful Preachers get blamed for people in the Lord’s churches not being “spiritually fed.” I know this is the case at times, even with the best of preachers. But the truth is, many who will not do what the preacher is teaching and preaching, have put themselves in a sub-spiritual state of being; where they may no longer be able to feed themselves, or be fed.

I have never had a church member, or anyone else, come to me for counseling and say, “Pastor, I am deceived, can you help me?” If a saved person is deceived, they do not know it! They “think” they are normal. They “feel” as if everything is well! They no longer see in themselves what others who view them see. In fact, many times they may be convinced that the one who is trying to help their condition; is the one who is deceiving them.

The only cure for what I call Doctrinal Dementia, is concentrated exposure, and submission to large and powerful doses of The inspired Words found in God’s Book. Only They can regenerate and renew a damaged mind. The only problem with this is, if a person goes too long, their condition will further deteriorate to that of a Reprobate Rebel. I’m sure that only a few ever recover from this deceived condition while here on earth.

Many who have put themselves in this situation, because they refused to do something they once had the capacity to know was right, will be cured instantly when they receive their new bodies. At that moment, all that was hidden by deceit, because of their own rebellious minds, hearts and wills, will all come back to their then perfect and spiritually conscious minds in an instant! No more excuses! No one else to blame! And all this, with an absolutely clear mind.

All I can say is this: Is there something you are not doing right now concerning any part of the doctrine in God’s Word? While you still have the capability to know what is the right thing to do? Do It Now!

Chapter 8

Adding To God’s Words

II Peter 2:1-3 “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”

The context of these words in II Peter 2 is usually explained as false teachers revising the words in God’s Bible in order to sell it and profit from it. I believe that is true. But the applications are also very helpful. Many people in the religious world will hold a King James Bible in their hand as they teach or preach, but they use “other” words which do not profit the hearers. Many of these words are not found in the Word of God. I believe even many good and well-intended men have never willingly attempted to revise the actual words in The Bible; but they use words which they have learned from corrupt sources. Many times it is these “... feigned words...” that are the cause of many problems in doctrine and in the faithful practice of it.

We all understand that God expects teachers and preachers to use words from our thoughts that help people see and understand God’s Book. This is a necessity in preaching and teaching.

As God called Preachers, Words from God’s Book, and explanatory words by our voices, are in a very real sense the tools of our heavenly vocation: our trade.

Many religious groups, denominations, and movements, have introduced into the minds of people their own words and terms. Words which bring attention to themselves or their organizations, which do not provide spiritual help to people, in the understanding of God’s “...pure words...”

Those of us who spend time in God’s Perfect Book know that the more we study, the simpler things in God’s Book become. Simplicity is profundity; but attempting to be profound in the use of our words does not help the simple...but often is confusing! (Case in point!)

There are those who, by their “made up words,” seem to want to complicate God’s Word with their own brand of so-called scholarly sounding vocabularies. We know from history, that there were cases where the “common” people were not allowed to read The Bible. That was deemed only for those who named themselves “the clergy.” The actual word “clergy” in this sense is not a Bible word. It is one of those made-up words that can be deceiving. Many hear that word and lump together all who work in any type of church or denomination; male and female. That is unfair Men who hold true to their being called by The Holy Ghost, and ordained by a Biblical New Testament Baptist Church to teach and preach the Perfection of the King James Bible and It’s every word!

We are told in II Timothy 1:1, to “Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.” We do not need to make up new words for words that are printed in our Bible. “Sound words...” are Bible words. Such words were first formed in the heart and mind of God. They are the words that must be out in front, and underneath every other word we speak; both to the souls of the lost and to the born again spirits of the saved. As we define God’s words, His way, with our words, God’s Spirit will open the understanding of His Words first and foremost, and the power in those words will do their job.

We must be mindfully careful of the words we choose to use. Any Bible believer knows that it is only God’s Words which have in them the authority to help people with actual spiritual power. Other words may be able to influence the mind or heart, but only God’s Inspired Words have the power to produce the effect and purpose intended by The LORD. As we use other words to explain God’s Word, we must be conscious of which words have in them The Breath and Life of God.

In order to see more lives changed as we speak, we must be mindful not to rely on words that were formed by the religions or philosophies of this world. Such words may help with the things of earth; but not in the realm of eternity.

Romans 12:2 can be applied to the use of words. “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” If the words we use are “... conformed to this world...” the good listed in Romans 12:2 will not be accomplished in the lives of those to whom we are called to instruct. Lives will not be “...transformed...” minds will remain confused, Bible doctrine will not be proved to others, and the “...will of God...” will be missed!

God used Paul The Apostle to speak of this in I Corinthians 2:4 when He had Paul write… “And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:..” The words in the vocabulary of man’s wisdom may help, on a purely human plane; but such words will not demonstrate the power of God.

God reveals this same principle again in I Corinthians 2:13. “Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”

If I understand this verse correctly, I learn that The Holy Ghost does not teach any other words than that of The Words in The Book of God. I also learn from these words that some words are spiritual and some words are not spiritual. We know for sure that every word in God’s Book is spiritual.

John 6:63 “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

In false churches where the words of false bibles are used, the only help those people in attendance are receiving is that of the words of this world. And, The Holy Ghost is not in attendance for that preaching and teaching! This, any Bible preacher should understand; but what about when we choose to use the “... feigned words...” of this world in an attempt to impress someone with our speech, or just because those words make us to sound ‘more scholarly?’

I’m sure that anyone who desires to see people receive spiritual help will have a desire to use words that have in them the inspiration of God which is the only real power that can transform lives.

The use of “other words” in some cases may not be sinful; but the Scriptures speak of things that are “weights” that can hinder God’s people from moving forward for God. I know this will seem trivial to some; but it needs to be considered. For an example of what I am getting at; take words that have come about from Protestant minds. Many use these terms, but the actual word is not found in the Word of God. Terms such as Eschatology, Bibliology, Christology. These all sound intellectual; but the average believer wonders what they mean. God’s Word uses the words: Church, Word of God, and The Doctrine of Christ. As we use these terms, God’s Book is understood in such areas.

Other terms have also been adopted from other sources that also diminish the production of thoughts in the majority of people who hear such words. Words like Alma Mata which many use to speak of the Bible College from which they graduated. That term actually means ‘Holy Mother.” How the devil must enjoy the irony of a Bible Believing Baptist calling the school they attended their catholic holy mother!

Young men are taught Hermeneutics in Bible college; not understanding that the term comes from the name of a German textual critic who did not believe in the perfection of the Bible. Why would we want to associate the learning about Bible preaching, with a man who thought he knew more about the words of the Bible then it’s Author!

As I was thinking about this subject I thought of the word ‘manipulation.” I thought of how many times in my own ministry, that some people have expressed that they felt like the strong preaching of the Bible was a ploy to manipulate people into doing what the preacher wanted them to do. God did not use the word manipulate in His Book. That word casts a negative thought upon any Bible words that are intended to get people to change their ways!!! I know who is behind that word!

I believe the devil uses this word to cause people under conviction to think that something bad is happening to them. I understand how the world uses this word, and I know that if I attempt to influence people, by my words, to do something that only benefits my selfishness; that that is wrong and must not be used. But if I preach the Word of God, in an attempt to have The Spirit of God convict and convince those who hear, to change their ways for the sake of God...That is a very positive form of what the world and watered-down, compromising teaching calls manipulation.

Because of this “... feigned...” word, perhaps lost people can no longer feel the full sting of the thought of going to Hell; because they have been conditioned to think that such conviction is manipulation!

A faithful man of God stands and preaches about the awful consequences of sin, and because he uses actual illustrations of people whose lives were destroyed because of their choice to sin...and he is called a manipulator! A Pastor or Evangelist warns young people of how their lives will be ruined if they do not heed the preaching...and they are called manipulators! The parents of those precious young people many times cave in to such complaints, as they listen to their kids who have been influenced against being Biblically corrected in public schools. They are the ones being ‘manipulated’...not their kids!

We have become a nation of thin-skinned crybabies, who when corrected say...”Stop manipulating me!” But the saddest thing I see is that some of God’s people are now in this same mindset on a larger scale than ever. If they had never heard the word “manipulate,” they would not think negatively about the conviction of The Holy Ghost of God. If a preacher was not influenced by this “... feigned...” word, he would stand and faithfully preach “...all the counsel...” of God’s Book with a clear conscience and Holy Spirit filled heart, without a second thought!

Many professing saved people have been deceived into the mindset that the preaching of strong doctrine is a form of manipulation.

God warned us of this in II Timothy 4:3, when He had Paul write, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears...” The LORD also spoke an application of this same principle in Isaiah 30:10. “Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits...”

The people did not want to be moved to do “...right things...” It could be said that these people were in reality, asking to be manipulated out of being convicted of wrong, and for someone to deceive them into thinking they were in good standing before God when they were not! Yes, Satan will call manipulation from doing wrong a bad thing, yet he will turn around and manipulate people into thinking there are no real consequences for their sins. The evil one will manipulate people into wanting to be manipulated!

False preachers, ministers of Satan (II Corinthians 11:15), are praised for their manipulating of people away from old fashioned Holy Ghost conviction and standards. The “... feigned words...” of the devil are used for his purposes against God and against Bible Believers. We must be careful concerning the words we choose to use as the tools of our trade.

“Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?” Proverbs 22:20-21

God chose the words, and the formation of those words into sentences and paragraphs, specifically to produce an intended effect on and in those who would hear His Inspired writings as we preach and teach from them. Why then would we want to use “other words” or terms which have no guarantee of being used to help those who need the spiritual help which comes only from God’s Inspired and Preserved Words.

Chapter 9

Common Words and Terms Used by Independent Bible Believing Baptists

I Timothy 4:6 “If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.”

These are by no means the full definitions for, or all the usages of these words. To fully define, explain, or apply the Eternal Words in God’s Book, will be a life-long task for each soul who begins it. One thing is sure; every word of The Eternal Author’s choice... is the word He gave. Because words are the means by which God chose to communicate to men; shouldn’t we make sure the people to whom we speak, understand our words?

These are words I have heard, and also use, in the teaching and preaching of an Independent New Testament, Bible Believing, Baptist Church. These are not intended to redefine a dictionary definition; if fact, it would be wise to check these words with an old 1828 Webster’s Dictionary. I am not saying that other preachers in Independent Baptist Churches of like faith and practice would define these words and terms exactly as they are in this work. But, for over 30 years now, I have been around many who do use these words in much of the same way.

To a Bible Believing, Independent, Baptist, these words and terms are common to our thinking and to our hearts. Even if we use a word that is not found in the Scriptures, there ought to be solid Bible principles which cause us to use such words. Many who hear us use these words as we teach and preach, may have a different understanding of them. If people know what we are “really” saying, perhaps they will get more of what The Spirit of God wants them to hear and do as a result.

What we have to say is far too important, to be lost in a mind that is hearing a different definition of the words we use. The words of God’s choosing never return void, we need to do our best to follow that example.

Defining Our Use of Common Terms

Assurance- This is often used when a person has prayed in the past to be saved; but then they begin to doubt if what they did or said in that prayer was the start of their salvation. When they come to know that what they did was valid, or they confirm such by another prayer for salvation; We say, “They got the assurance of their salvation.” A prayer of faith directed at The Name of Jesus should be all the assurance we need. Sometimes when a saved person lives in sin, their faith gets weak, and they begin to feel like they have no assurance. If they are born again, they can have that assurance settled forever.

Deuteronomy 28:66 “And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life...”

Isaiah 32:17 “And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.”

I Thessalonians 1:5 “For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.”

Hebrews 6:11 “And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end...”

Hebrews 10:22 “Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.”

Atonement- The actual physical shedding of blood, and the placing of the actual blood of Jesus Christ on the Mercy Seat in Heaven, in order to secure salvation forever to those who receive this merciful gift of God.

Romans 5:11 “And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.”

Hebrews 9:12 “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”

Backslide- We use this word to identify saved people who show growth in the things of the Lord, and then they begin to go back from the things which they grew to believe and practice. Many religions misuse this word and say that such a person has lost their salvation. A person who is born again into the family of God cannot be unborn; but they can fall back to old ways or sins practiced before they were saved. A backslider has the opportunity to go forward for the Lord again...If they so choose. Backsliding can be a result of not learning a Bible principle, not being taught, weakness in a temptation, someone putting a stumbling block in their path, or just plain rebellion.

Proverbs 14:14 “The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.”

Isaiah 1:4 “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.”

Jeremiah 7:24 “But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.”

Psalm 26:1 “A Psalm of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.”

Galatians 5:7 “Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?”

Baptism- The first step of obedience taken by one who has trusted and asked Jesus to be their Saviour. Often called Believer’s Baptism, this is to be administered by one of the Churches of the Lord’s ownership only. It is a full physical bodily emersion in deep water. This is when the Holy Spirit brings a saved person into membership with that particular Baptist Church. Bible Baptism has a seven-fold purpose in the life of the believer.

Acts 2:41 “Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.”

Acts 8:12 “But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.”

Acts 10:47 “Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?

Baptist- God gave this word for the title of John The Baptist. God sent John to prepare a people for the ministry of The Lord Jesus Christ, with a baptism that was called “The Baptism of Repentance.” John was also sent to Baptize The Sinless Son of God in deep water by emersion. John was the first one who baptized people only after they showed some viable proof of why they should be baptized. That particular pattern of the baptism of John, is now carried out in a New Testament Baptist Church, when a person is first saved by grace through faith, and then after a profession of their personal faith in Jesus dying for the penalty of their sins, they are then allowed to be baptized into the membership a Local New Testament Baptist Church. John did not start a Baptist Church; but Jesus started a New Testament Church in which only those who are saved can be baptized into that Church. Many believe that just being saved places the person into a “universal church.” That is against The Scriptures. Those saved are part of the Family of God; but to become a member of a true Bible Based Assembly; there must be an authoritative, Doctrinally correct Baptism; both in purpose and in how it is performed.

Matthew 3:1-3 “ In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.”

Matthew 3:8 “Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:..”

Acts 19:4 “Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”

Acts 8:36 “And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”

Bible- The completed Book Authored by The LORD in Heaven, and then dictated in time to men on the earth from Moses to The Apostle John. God’s Bible contains 66 Books with every individual word chosen, inspired, and perfectly preserved in the English of the King James Bible. The men God used were “moved” by God’s Spirit to record The Author’s inspired words. The men were not inspired, but every one of the words were and are still inspired.

Psalm 12:6-7, “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.”

II Timothy 3:16 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness...”

II Peter 1:21 “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”

Born Again- This is the Bibles term for the new birth which takes place at the moment of salvation. It is a new birth because when a sinner asks Jesus to save them from the penalty of their sins, God creates a new spirit in that person that was dead from the time of their physical birth.

John 3:3 “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 3:7 “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”

I Peter 1:23 “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”

Bus Route- We use these words in our soul winning ministry where we use busses as a tool to bring children and adults to Sunday School and Church. This gives people in our churches a place to work and to serve God.

Luke 14:23 “And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.”

Luke 18:16 “But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.”

Carnal- We use this Bible word to identify the bad attitudes, actions, appearances of people who claim to be saved; but pattern the conduct of their lives after things that are more characteristic of the rest of the world’s unsaved people; and not of the Holiness of God and His Bible.

Romans 8:7 “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”

I Corinthians 3:1-4 “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?”

Catholic- This is not a Bible word. It is a Latin word meaning “universal.” We use this word when speaking of the false church which began when a Roman Emperor decreed that all people were to be under the authority of his “Universal Church.” True Bible Believing Christians were then killed for centuries, because they were deemed to be heretics who would not join with that pagan organization. That false church will one day answer to God for the death of many New Testament martyrs. We use it today to teach the origin of the false doctrine that teaches all who are saved are part of one universal invisible church. Even many Baptist Churches have this false doctrine in their Constitutions and in their teachings.

Revelation 19:2 “For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”

Revelation 17:4-6 “And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Revelation 17:9 “And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.”

Charismatic- We use this term to identify ministries, which boast of an unbiblical perversion of the gift of tongues. Biblical tongues was once a valid gift used by Jewish Apostles before the completion of The New Testament. True tongues was a hearing gift that allowed unsaved Jews to hear the Gospel in their own language. Today some falsely claim that the Holy Ghost gives them a super ability that enables them to mutter a guttural sounding gibberish, which they say is the gift of tongues; yet it is not any recognizable language to anyone else. We also use this in speaking of false ministries, claiming they can heal people with a touch or a word from a faith healer.

Acts 2:4-8 “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?”

Isaiah 8:19 “And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”

I Corinthians 13:8-10 “Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”

I Corinthians 14:7 “And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.”

Christian- The word means Christ-like, or that which resembles Christ. This Bible word is one of the most misused, and is the most misunderstood in the world of Religion. A Bible Christian is one who knows 100% for certain that they have been eternally born again because of their personally trusting in the death, burial, and resurrection of The Jesus of the Bible, to take away their punishment for sins... And, they live out those Bible beliefs in the practice of their lives.

There are many people who have been saved by the blood of Jesus, who cannot be called a Biblical Christian. A Christian is not one who simply goes to a church that acknowledges God’s existence, or believes that there was a man named Jesus who came to earth. If that were so, by the definition of some, Satan would be a “christian.”

Acts 11:26 “And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.”

Acts 26:28 “Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.”

I Peter 4:16 “Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.”

Church- The Church is the actual physical Institution and Organization that Jesus began in Luke 6:12-13 when He “called out” the first group from many other saved people. It is also called The Body which is a descriptive term for it is to be the platform for the physical work of getting out the gospel, and growing the saved. It is also an assembly that is to meet in one place locally on the Lord’s Day. That church is now many individual bodies, which when the saved are called to be with The Lord, will then and only then, form one completed group or assembly.

Luke 6:13 “ And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles...”

Matthew 16:18 “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

Ephesians 1:22-23 “And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”

Convictions- This is a word we use as another name for the strong beliefs to which a Bible Believer holds and practices. Next to our love for Bible Based Convictions, any false doctrine or practice will seem, and may be, in comparison, hated. Once we learn these from the Word of God, we strive to lead people to them, without hating a person who has not formed such convictions. A true Conviction is not a mere preference, or personal opinion; a Conviction is a mandate, a divine decree from God’s Written Word.

Jude 1:3 “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”

Psalm 119:128 “Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.”

Revelation 20:4 “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”

Deacon- This word simply means “servant.” A Biblical deacon is a servant who is first nominated by the congregation, tested by the church leadership, and then appointed as a servant under the oversight of the pastor into the office of a deacon. A deacon in the New Testament was not a position of leadership over the people or the pastor. They were only appointed to relieve the pastor of varying aspects of the work in a church, so that the pastor could fulfil his calling from God. Never did God give written permission for a deacon to take a place of leadership against a God called pastor. Many churches of today have adopted the Protestant version of a deacon; which creates a usurping of the authority of the Office of the Pastor.

Acts 6:2 “Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.”

I Timothy 3:10 “And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.”

Doctrine- This is what we are to teach and preach. It is known as the body of truth that was given to New Testament Churches directly by God and His Spirit. That Doctrine is made up of 20 basic parts with other divisions of those twenty. All these combined make up the whole Doctrine of the Church Jesus started. It is always spoken of in the singular when the Doctrine is God’s. It is used in the plural for false doctrines. “...doctrines of devils...” I Timothy 4:1 (Ref. Matthew 15:9, Colossians 2:22, Hebrews 13:9)

Romans 16:17 “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.”

Titus 2:7 “In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity...”

Titus 2:10 “Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.”

I Timothy 4:16 “Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.”

II Timothy 3:10 “But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience...”

Ecumenical- We use this word to identify people, ministries and churches which have not learned that The Bible does not condone, “The joining together of “all faiths” regardless of the differing doctrines they hold.” The Ecumenical Movement is a ploy by the devil to keep people from believing in the Inspired and Perfectly Preserved Word of God, and to keep them confused as to what the truth of God really is.

Romans 16:17 “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.”

Titus 1:13 “This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith…” II Corinthians 11:13-15 “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”

II John 1:10 “If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed...”

Eternal Life- This is another name for the kind of salvation for which Jesus shed His Blood. The words mean exactly what they say. This is 100% definitive of the kind of salvation that Jesus speaks of as “...the gift of God...” A salvation that must be kept by a mere human sinner did not come from Jesus! Our bodies may die, but because we have been given a born again spirit, we will live with The Lord for eternity. If a person trusts and receives eternal life from Jesus today...that life never ends!

John 10:28 “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”

Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

I Timothy 6:12 “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.”

Titus 3:7 “That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”

I John 2:25 “And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.”

I John 5:13 “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”

Faithful- This word is used to speak of the highest compliment that can be given to those who serve their Saviour in a New Testament Baptist Church. These show by their life, actions, attitudes, and their appearance, that they love God and His Word, and these are an excellent example to follow, as they follow Jesus.

I Corinthians 4:2 “Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.”

I Timothy 1:12 “And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry...”

Faith Promise- We use these words to define a way, a method, of challenging people to give above all the tithes and other offerings to Missions. People promise The Lord that they will give a certain amount, or a certain percentage above the tithe and other offerings specifically to support the Missions Program to win lost souls.

II Corinthians 8:1-4 “Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.”

II Corinthians 9:6-7 “But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.”

Family of God- This is made up of all people who receive Jesus as their personal Saviour. Many of these become a child of God, but never learn to grow any further. On earth, this is the only actual ‘universal’ group of believers. It is from this group of saved people, that some of them, join individual New Testament Churches the moment they are first baptized into membership in that local church body. If a person is saved, but is not Scripturally baptized, they are eternally a part of the Family of God, but are not in His Church.

John 1:12 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name...”

Ephesians 3:15 “Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named...”

Filling of The Holy Ghost- This is a filling for service and for the teaching and preaching of the Word of God. This does not have to be a one-time occurrence. This can happen many times in the life of any surrendered saved person.

Acts 2:4 “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”

Acts 4:8 “Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel...”

Acts 4:31 “And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.” (9:17, 13:9, 13:52)

God Robber- We use this term for people who profess to be saved and do not pay God His tithe. When a born again believer gets a paycheck, and they do not bring God His 10%, before the IRS gets their percentage; they are stealing directly from God.

Malachi 3:8-10 “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”

Good Works- Good works are to be performed by people who are born again, but the doing of good works do not bring salvation to a lost soul. Many people hope that it is the doing of the good works that will earn them a place in Heaven. Any good work done with that motive is a work that blasphemes the Work Jesus did on the cross to pay for the gift of salvation.

Ephesians 2:8-10 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”

Titus 3:5 “ Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;..”

II Timothy 3:17 “That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”

Titus 2:7 “In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity...”

Titus 2:14 “Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”

Gospel- We use this word to define what we are to preach: The death, burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave, which is the power of God that allows people to be born again if they receive the Gospel. We also use it to cover all other things we teach and preach from the Bible. God has committed unto us to preach His inspired, preserved, and “spelled out” words. Hence, preach the Word that God...spel...led out to men. This could be said of Paul when God told him to spell out things like, “...according to my gospel.” in Romans 2:16.

I Corinthians 15:1-4 “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:..”

I Corinthians 9:17 “For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.”

Romans 16:25 “Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,..”

Grace- We use this word to try to explain that we do not deserve the salvation we received from choosing to place our faith in Jesus Christ. We say that grace is unmerited favour. It is a gift we could never earn on our own. It is given to all, even if they do not receive it. It is how God treats us even though we treat Him badly. Any soul who will not receive His grace, is truly deserving of spending an eternity in the Lake of Fire.

Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God...”

I Corinthians 15:10 “But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.”

Titus 2:11 “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men...”

Great White Throne- This is the place where all those who did not take Jesus as their personal Saviour, will stand before God to have their works judged by Him. This judgment is not to determine If they can go to Heaven; but it is to prove to the lost that their best works, were not good enough to match up to the one work of Jesus, when He died for their sins. All who stand at this Judgment will be cast into the Lake of Fire, knowing God has been 100% just, in His eternal sentence of damnation.

Revelation 20:11-15 “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”

Hell- Hell is the holding place of all the souls of those who die without receiving the gift of eternal life for salvation. Hell is the beginning of eternal punishment in flames. That punishment begins at death where the soul awaits the Resurrection to Damnation. These will be rejoined to their bodies which have been in a grave, or in the sea to stand in judgment; only to be cast into The Lake of Fire.

John 5:28 “Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.”

Revelation 20:13 “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”

Holy- Of all of the attributes of God, this is His dominant characteristic. It is this part of the personality of Jehovah that is the guide and the balance to all His other attributes. Even for God to exercise mercy and grace, He cannot do so without regard to His being Holy, and still holding 100% to His truth. We use this word as a goal to point believers toward godliness concerning their attitudes and actions, so that in learning to live a holier life, they can experience a closer walk with God while here on earth. A believer’s level of personal holiness, is that which will automatically set him apart from others.

Romans 6:19 “I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.”

Romans 6:22 “But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.”

II Corinthians 7:1 “Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”

I Thessalonians 3:13 “To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.”

Holy Ghost Baptism- This was a one-time event that took place in two stages. The first part is when the first leadership of The Lord’s Church would receive the Holy Ghost in John 20:21-22. The second and final part as prophesied by the Lord Jesus, occurred on the Day of Pentecost. (Luke 24:49) This was an emersion of the first completed New Testament Church when the Apostles were first “called out” from the other disciples in Luke 6:12-13.

Luke 3:16 “John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire...”

Acts 1:5 “For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.”

House of God- We use this term for the Local Baptist Church where each individual Body of saved and baptized believers, assemble together so that the Lord can meet with them, in a physical place of His establishing.

I Timothy 3:15 “But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”

I Peter 4:17 “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”

Malachi 3:10 “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”

Independent- This word is used when we speak of our kind of Baptist Churches. A true Bible Believing, Bible practicing New Testament Baptist Church, is not ruled or owned by any man made board from some distant denominational headquarters on earth. Our Churches are all separate from one another; and dependent only on The Lord Jesus, The Holy Spirit, and His Word to provide us with all we need for all faith and how to practice that faith. We are self-governing as we use only The Word of God to do so.

Inspiration- This word is used to teach that the very words God placed in His Book have in them the same life as is in The Creator. The men whom God used to record His words were not “inspired,’ but the words God told them to write were and still are inspired. This is not the same usage as when we say someone was inspired to write a novel. This inspiration has to do with the life, breath, and power of The Almighty, contained in the form of written words.

II Timothy 3:16 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness...”

Judgment Seat of Christ- This is used of the time when each born again believer will stand before the Lord Jesus to have their works tested by the fire of God. This testing will not be to determine whether or not they can go to Heaven; that was settled the moment they got saved. This judgment is to reckon with the Lord, and answer to Him for all we did, or did not do, as a saved person. Sin is not in question on this day; only our works are tried to determine either loss or the receiving of rewards.

Romans 14:10 “But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.”

I Corinthians 3:13 “Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.”

II Corinthians 5:10 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.”

Justification- We use this word to teach that when a person is born again, they have been justified by a judicial act of God. This cannot be earned by the personal merit of anyone. This is only possible because the Blood of Jesus was placed on our account to pay for, to cover, and to remove the penalty of our sins. This happened in the moment we trusted in what Jesus did for us on the cross. We say to be justified is, just-as-if-we-had-never-sinned. Being justified by God is an eternal act. We then who are justified should live, just-as-if-we-did-not-sin, as a testimony to others that we have been saved, and out of gratitude for what the Lord did for us.

Romans 3:20 “Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”

Romans 3:24 “Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus...”

Romans 3:28 “Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.”

Romans 5:9 “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.”

Titus 3:7 “That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”

Lake of Fire- This is the place of Eternal Punishment for all who do not by faith, trust and ask Jesus for the gift of Eternal life. While the saved enjoy one eternal day; those who go to live in this horrible place will do so in a resurrected body that will be tormented day and night for ever, with no hope of ever stopping this immeasurable time of horror.

Revelation 20:13 “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”

Revelation 20:10 “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”

Lord’s Supper- This the name for one of the Ordinances, given only to The Church started by the Lord in the New Testament. This Ordinance is something we are commanded to do, to remember what Jesus did to purchase our eternal salvation. Protestants, Catholics, and many other false, or doctrinally incorrect churches call this Communion. But communion is more of a descriptive term of what takes place during Ordinance of The Lord’s Supper. Some falsely think in taking what they call communion, is a sacrament that saves their soul, or imparts some grace to them. Some do not even teach each individual must first be a saved, baptized church member, in good standing with their particular assembly, to partake in the Supper.

Luke 22:17-20 “And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves: For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.”

I Corinthians 10:16-17 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

I Corinthians 11:20-26 “When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.

Lost- This is what we say of a person who has not yet received Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour. If a person is not 100% sure that they have been born again, we say they are lost. To be lost means that a person is dead in trespasses and sins and must be born again.

Matthew 18:11 “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.”

Luke 15:24 “For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.”

John 17:12 “While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.”

Ephesians 2:1 “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins...”

Missions- This is what we call the Programs we use where church members give offerings above God’s tithe specifically to the support of Missionaries and Evangelists. We also use some of this money to support ministries that are established by other Baptist Churches for the purpose of providing help to Local Churches and Missionaries.

II Corinthians 8:1-4 “Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.”

Philippians 4:15 “Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.”

Modesty- We use this word to teach Biblical principles of decency in how a believer is to dress in the view of a world bent on immodesty. This applies both to the modesty standards of men and women; yet most of the time, it is the female that God created who is addressed more often. Scripture teaches that there is to be a distinct difference in the appearance of His creation. It is He Who made Male and Female; and it is an abomination to allow the two to be confused as to their appearance to others. The male is representative of The Male Creator. When a female looks in appearance to be that of a male; she is crossing a line set down in writing by The LORD.

Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

Proverbs 7:10 “And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.”

I Timothy2:9-10 “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.”

New Nature- We use this term to teach of the “new creature,” or that which God created in our being the moment we were born again. The new nature does not eradicate, eliminate, or do away with the old nature. It is the new spirit of a saved person that now can learn from God’s Bible, and have fellowship with The Lord and with His people.

Romans 6:6 “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.”

II Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

Ephesians 4:24 “And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”

Colossians 3:10 “And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him...”

Non-denominational- Non-New Testament, man-made institutions which call themselves churches, use this name to describe themselves as having no set standards of doctrine. These seem to want to avoid being labeled with anything that would offend people who do not know the truth of the Word of God. Most of them will use just about any so-called version of a bible. We use this term to teach against the support or the attendance of such ministries. The Lord Jesus did not start His Church as one that had no absolutes in standards of doctrine, and the practice of that Faith.

I Timothy 3:15 “But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”

Ephesians 4:11-14 “And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive...”

Offerings- Anything above the Tithe given to God to help His work at one of His Churches. This can also be something given to a person to help them in God’s work, or to provide some need for them.

Luke 6:38 “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”

II Corinthians 9:6-7 “But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.”

Old Nature- This term is used to teach a born again believer, that he or she still has the same sinful nature that was in their being, before they asked Jesus to save them. Salvation does not reform the old nature. At salvation God creates in us a new nature that must co-exist with our old sinful nature while still in our bodies on this earth. We can now choose to control our old nature by exercising obedience and submitting to the principles found in the Bible. The more we learn and practice from the reading, study, teaching and the preaching of the Word of God; the stronger we become spiritually over our old nature.

Romans 6:6 “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.”

Ephesians 4:21-24 “If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”

Colossians 3:8-10 “But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him...”

Overseer- This is a descriptive term for part of the duties and responsibilities of a New Testament Office of the Bishop, which we now refer to as a Pastor. He is responsible to The Lord for all aspects of the administration of the Local Church he pastors. A pastor is given this responsibility by the Holy Ghost. A pastor may delegate some responsibilities to others in a church, but he is ultimately the one person with direct delegated authority from The Lord Jesus, Who is The Head of the church.

Acts 20:28 “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.”

Pastor- We use this word as a title for what the Bible calls a Bishop in a New Testament Church. It has become the excepted name for that Scriptural Office. It is a word that describes how a man called of God, is to lead, feed, and protect a flock. The Lord Jesus is the Great and Chief Shepherd of His Church; the pastor is often called “the under shepherd.”

Jeremiah 3:15 “And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.”

Hebrews 13:20 “Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant...”

Ephesians 4:11-12 “And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ….”

Preference- We speak of things that we chose to do or not to do as being a preference. A preference is a personal or discretionary choice. That choice could be prompted by a bias; a preconceived notion, prejudice, or favoritism. A preference can also be a choice based upon a personal view of a Bible principle. A preference may be a good or a bad thing; in contrast to a Bible Conviction which is an absolute from God. All preferences are not bad things; but we must know why such choices are preferred, and their purpose. A true Bible based conviction will always please God, while a preference might not always do so. A badly chosen preference could be a stumblingblock for which we will answer to God; while if a conviction is the reason someone stumbles; they will answer to God for it.

Romans 14:13 “Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.”

I Corinthians 6:12 “All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”

Preservation- We use this word when speaking of how The LORD not only gave men the exact words He wanted in His Bible, but that God took upon Himself the responsibility to insure every word of The Scriptures would be available in perfect and unbroken form. God is able to preserve His Bible in any language He chooses. Because every word of God was given by inspiration in the beginning, that same life and power remains in every word that is preserved by God even to this day.

Joshua 8:32 “And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.”

Joshua 8:34-35 “And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law. There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.”

Psalm 12:6-7 “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.”

Luke 4:4 “And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.”

John 12:48 “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.”

Protestant- This is not a Bible term at all. We use this word to identify all of the churches started as a result of what history calls the Reformation of the 1600’s. These organizations called themselves churches, but they all came out of Catholicism, and have never been part of the New Testament Churches started by The Lord Jesus. The Lord’s kind of Church first began with Apostles who were sent directly by The Lord. All these “other” so-called churches, have men who were not sent by God as their actual founder. The differing beliefs of those extra-biblical organizations, are a result of these men, who only attempted to reform the teachings of Catholicism. A Protestant church has never been, and is not a Biblically authorized New Testament Church. As well intentioned as these men may have been, they had no right to start new and doctrinally differing churches.

II Corinthians 11:13 “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Romans 16:17 “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.”

Quickened- We use this word to teach how at salvation, the dead spirit of man that we inherited from our earthly father, back to Adam, is made alive when The Holy Spirit comes into our hearts the moment we are born again. This is the regeneration of a new spirit of man in us. Our body and soul will not be quickened until our physical death, or when The Lord calls us out of this world.

Ephesians 2:1 “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins…”

I Corinthians 5:35-36 “But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die….”

I Peter 3:18 “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit...”

Rapture- This is not an actual Bible word. We use this word to describe the coming event when The Lord Jesus descends to the clouds above the earth, and calls out all those who have been saved by faith. It will begin with the saved hearing the voice of God saying, “Come up hither...” First the graves will open, and only the saved who have died will rise up. Then the rest of us who are born again will also “...”be caught up...”

Revelation 4:1 “After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”

I Thessalonians 4:16-17 “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

Saved- We use this word specifically and exclusively for a person who has by faith trusted and asked Jesus to be their Saviour. We then say such an individual has been saved from the penalty of their sins.

Acts 4:12 “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

Acts 16:30 “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Acts 16:31 “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”

Romans 10:13 “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God...”

Salvation- This is a one-time eternal event that takes place the moment a sinner, without trusting their own goodness, good works, or personal merit, calls out on the Name Jesus by faith, asking Him to be their Saviour, to be saved from the penalty of sins which is Hell and The Lake of Fire.

Hebrews 5:9 “And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him...”

I Peter 1:5 “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”

Titus 3:5 “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost...”

Scripture- This word is used when we speak of the unbroken chain of words that make up the completed Book of God. We say we quote from the Scriptures because we are using a small portion of the whole Bible. The Bible is God’s script; a written manual given to help direct and live our lives for our Saviour. The Scripture is God pre-script-ion for a holy life. Actors memorize a script to be someone they are not. Born again believers have a perfect script that will conform them into the image of Jesus Christ if they memorize and follow what God has written.

II Timothy 3:16 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness...”

II Peter 1:20 “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.”

John 10:35 “... and the scripture cannot be broken...”

Sealing of the Holy Spirit- This is a one-time eternal event that takes place at the moment a sinner trusts Jesus by faith for eternal salvation from the penalty of their sins.

Ephesians 1:13 “ In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise....”

Ephesians 4:30 “And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”

Separation- This word is used in order to cause saved people to realize internally, their responsibility to live an outward life worthy of the Name of the their Saviour. Teaching and preaching about this word is usually directed at the appearances of the outward life. How we conduct ourselves before a sinful world can reflect good or bad on our Heavenly Father’s Name. Born again people are commanded to be separated from things that are not characteristic of a Holy God. We are to find the proper, Scriptural balance, between having to live in a sinful world; and yet showing outwardly that we are not of this world.

II Corinthians 6:14-17 “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”

John 17:14-16 “I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”

Soul Winning- This is a term we use for someone who has been saved or born again, when they go out and speak to people about their need to have their sins forgiven by trusting Jesus as their personal Saviour. We hope to win their souls over to turn to God and ask Jesus to save them. When we can win their souls, Jesus can then save them from Hell and the Lake of Fire.

Proverbs 11:30 “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.”

Acts 18:28 “For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.”

Speaking In Tongues- We use this term when comparing the hearing gift that God gave, with the false speaking gift some people of today claim to have. God’s Word teaches that “tongues” was a gift given only to be used when an Apostle was present. With this gift, God allowed people who spoke other languages, to hear the gospel in the tongue (language) of their birth or homeland through an Apostle. This hearing gift ceased at the completion of the Scriptures on earth, when John, the last Apostle, completed the Revelation and died.

Acts 2:6-8 “Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?”

I Corinthians 14:6-9 “Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.”

Spiritual- This Bible word is often misused and greatly misunderstood by religious people. True “...spiritual things...” have to do with the things of God. Anything that concerns the flesh is not spiritual. Satanic and demonic things are called “...spiritual wickedness...” and are never good. False religions are often called spiritual when they are not so. People involved with mysticism, the occult, and Eastern Religions are mistakenly thought to be spiritual but they are not. All things which are not “...spiritual things...” can be categorized by these basic terms: fleshly, carnal, humanistic, worldly, soulish, satanic.

I Corinthians 2:13 “Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”

I Corinthians 3:1 “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.”

I Corinthians 14:37 “If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.”

Galatians 6:1 “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.”

Ephesians 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

Standards- We use this term to speak of the things Bible Believers use to be the basis for the conduct of every aspect of their lives. We use this word when we speak of establishing guidelines for things such as dress standards, music standards, dating standards, or standards of modesty in Christ-like appearance with regard to fashions of this world, hair length and style, or even make-up standards for a Christian Lady. A believers personal standards, in honor to their Saviour, ought to be of the highest Biblical conformity.

Romans 12:2 “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

I Timothy 2:9-10 “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.”

Ephesians 4:24 “And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”

Storehouse- This is the word we use to teach that a Baptist Church is an actual physical place, were the business of God is carried out by the people in membership. This word is synonymous with what God calls His House in the Scriptures.

Malachi 3:10 “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”

Testimony- We say we give a testimony at church in order to praise or thank God for a good thing experienced in a life. We also use the word in speaking of the example of how we conduct our lives outwardly before the eyes and ears of others. It is also used for when we tell another person the actual events of how we personally came to trust and ask Jesus to be our Saviour. (Acts 22:6-10)

II Thessalonians 1:10 “When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.”

Revelation 6:9 “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held...”

The Faith- These two words together are used 25 times in the Bible to describe the entire body of doctrinal truth, as it was delivered to the churches directly by God’s Spirit in written form. The faith is what a true New testament Church is to be grounded and settled upon, without the doctrines of man.

Ephesians 4:5 “One Lord, one faith, one baptism...”

Acts 6:7 “And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.”

Acts 14:22 “Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”

Acts 16:5 “And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.”

Jude 1:3 “ Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”

Tithes- This is the 10% that God requires to be brought in by each member in particular, and paid to Him at His Church. This is not something that is “given” to God; for it already belongs to Him. This is to be 10% of all income before taxes and expenses are taken out. It is to be used for the operating cost of His Local Church.

Malachi 3:10 “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”

Leviticus 27:30 “And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’S: it is holy unto the LORD.”

Unequally Yoked- This term is most often used in speaking about marriage between the saved and the unsaved, as being against God’s Word. And, it is used to warn saved people not to spend too much time in fellowship with ungodly people without being a strong witness for them to be saved. But it is also used in the case of doctrinally correct saved people, being involved in any joint venture with others who profess to be saved, but do not hold to the same doctrine of The Faith as we do. We also use this term when speaking about two or more people that join together in a business as partners; who do not share the same Bible principles when it comes to things such as values, morals, ethics, standards, or even the need to be sure of the salvation of a partner.

II Corinthians 6:14-18 “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”

Romans 16:17 “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.”

II John 1:10 “If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed...”

Worldly- This is a term we use to teach a distinction between the things God wants saved people to be involved with; and things that are not good for a Biblically Christian life. Something considered to be worldly can be in the form of ideas, and philosophies, viewpoints, attitudes, opinions, characteristics, fashions, trends, fads, lifestyles, traditions, governments, religions and movements.

Romans 12:2 “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

I Corinthians 2:6 “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought...”

Ephesians 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

I Corinthians 2:12 “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”

Colossians 2:8 “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”

Chapter 10

Good Sounding Words Are Not Always Good

Romans 16:17-18 “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”

There are thousands of differing organizations which are called ministries and churches. Most all of them disagree in doctrinal belief, and in how they practice what they call their individualized faiths. Yet many of these institutions use common words. A Bible believer understands that it is God Who created the concept of words. We also know that God authored one specific set of Inspired words. He divided those words into the sixty-six chapters in His Book that we call The Bible.

“For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.” Psalm 119:89

After that Original writing, The LORD chose 44 men, to record that same set of words from His “...settled...” word onto the pages of perfect copies on the earth. That process ended with the Apostle John on the Isle of Patmos in around 90 AD.

Then The LORD, proceeded to oversee the copying and the exact translation of perfect copies of His Bible. He has kept His promise to preserve every word of His Book.

“The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.” Psalm 12:6-7

He must keep this promise, for His Book will be the only perfect standard for all men, of all languages. For the English speaking part of the world, He has kept that promise by giving us a now 400 year old copy of the same set of His Inspired and Preserved Words, in His Authorized King James Bible.

But now here we are in a very religiously confused world. Churches, Denominations, Incorporated Ministries, and Individuals, can’t seem to agree on anything when it comes to the Bible. Why? I believe it is the fact that many of these use the same individual words; but those words have been assigned differing meanings according to individual and personal preferences and beliefs. It is not all that hard to understand why there is so much confusion about religion. If the words and terms used by just two people are the same words, but the meaning of those words have been altered or changed; no wonder many people cannot agree. If all people had one set of words, as given by God Himself, and we all understood the exact basic meaning of that one set of words; at least then we would be on the common ground of the truth. If a disagreement then occurred, it would be due to simple lack of knowledge, or rebellion.

But in these days, how “...good words...” are used is not always a good thing. Many “...good words...” are being used to “...deceive the hearts of the simple.”

The Bible tells us that “The words of the LORD are pure words...” His words do not cause confusion; they bring understandable knowledge and peace. It is only when men redefine God’s words that confusion settles in and disrupts the mind. God wrote of this principle in II Corinthians 6:14-15.

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?”

As already written in chapter one, the word “...concord...” has to do with the agreement and use of words.

“In grammar, agreement of words in construction; as adjectives with nouns in gender, number and case; or verbs with nouns or pronouns in number and person. Or concord may signify the system of rules for construction called syntax.” Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Syntax

“In grammar, the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences, according to established usage. Syntax includes concord and regimen, or the agreement and government of words.” Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

The devil does not use only one method to diminish the effect of God’s Word; he uses many.

1He changes words.

2He takes words away.

3He adds words.

4He changes the arrangement of words.

5He denies words.

6He redefines good words.

A Bible believer could be speaking to a lost soul, with all the heart and power from The Holy Ghost; but our words could be falling on ears with minds that do not have the same definition of the words which they are hearing. Their ears hear one word; but their mind and heart hears another meaning. We must be very aware of this problem as we are speaking to anyone, but especially to a lost person.

It is also the case, when we are speaking to a person who claims to be saved; but has been influenced in their mind by false doctrines. We must train ourselves; to be aware of how they are defining the words they are hearing from us in their own minds. Many times, this is why a doctrinally sound believer walks away from a conversation with such people, overcome by frustration and sadness. They know they have used the right words in their attempt to help that confused soul; but it seemed to be of no avail.

The Lord Jesus warned us of this in Matthew 13:19. “When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.”

In the case of people praying to be saved, this can mean a prayer to go to hell instead of heaven!, Because of not being sure that soul understands the basics of the words we use, many people who pray a prayer upon being asked if they “want to be saved” end up thinking they are saved, but, not in accordance with the words that define Bible Salvation! If a lost soul does not understand the words we use in our gospel presentation, The Bible clearly states that Satan “…catcheth away that which was sown in his heart!”

This principle can also be applied to saved people who have not learned the language yet. This is why so many new-born unlearned believers join up with the wrong groups of people, and unequally yoke themselves together with those who hold to false doctrines. The same “good words” may be used, but the definitions are not in concord.

Some examples of “good words” that are bad: consider the following.

You are speaking to a Catholic and you ask them if they have “received Jesus” as their Saviour. You fully understand this to mean, that a person must ask Jesus by faith to be their Saviour from the penalty of their sin. But what that soul is hearing in the same words, is that they have already “received Jesus” every time they take what they call communion.

You are out soul winning, and you ask a person who attends a Church of Christ if they have been “saved.” They say, “Yes I have, and they even give you the date. You understand that being “saved” means a person has admitted they were a sinner, believed that Jesus died for all their sins, and that they have asked Jesus to be their Saviour. But in that person’s mind, when they were “saved,” was the day “they came into contact with the grace of God at their water baptism.”

You are speaking to a person who attends a Charismatic church about their salvation. They have a testimony that is heartfelt. You then ask them if they know have “eternal life” and they say, “Yes I do.” But in further conversation you find out that they believe they can lose their salvation if they sin willingly. You fully understand that “eternal life” is the gift you received from Jesus the day you got saved. But they are thinking that salvation is on a probationary basis, which depends upon their doing of good.

You are speaking to a person who attends an Ecumenical ministry about “unity.” You understand that “unity” is when we agree with the Doctrine found in The Word of God. But when they hear the word “unity,” they are hearing that we should not divide over differing doctrine, but be together in fellowship regardless of our doctrinal differences.

You are speaking with a lost person who calls themselves a Jehovah’s Witness. You ask them if they believe in “Jesus.” You fully understand that “Jesus” is The Second Person of The Godhead and He is God. But when they hear the word “Jesus,” they are thinking about a person that they believe is not God.

You are speaking to a person who is a Calvinist. When you hear the word “...predestinate..,” you understand that it is God’s plan for all those saved by their faith in Jesus, who willingly submit to the teachings of the Bible, That Gods will for all the saved is that they will be “... conformed to the image of...” Jesus. But when they hear “predestinate,” and make it predestination, that says God has determined who will go to Heaven or Hell without the persons choice in the matter.

There are many, many “good words” that when heard by people, are not good to their understanding. It is our responsibility to do our very best, to make sure we define our terms and words to those to whom we speak.

We are called to use words, but if we do not consider how our “good words” are being understood, we may be to some degree accountable for the terrible result, at the Judgment Seat of Christ.

As we listen to people, if we are hearing “good words” but we do not enquire as to how another understands the meaning of those words, it can be very easy for us to misjudge things and people in many situations.

The next time you find yourself speaking to someone and not making much progress; perhaps if you will stop and define some simple words according to God’s Book, you will be better able to help that soul to understand exactly what it is they truly need.

Chapter 11

The Silencing Power Of The Word

The words chosen by The Author and Finisher of our faith, when respected and understood to be truly inspired from and by Himself, often amaze the Bible preacher; and those who hear His Word. At those special times with our God, we are moved to openly praise what we hear and read from The Scriptures.

But there is another effect which The Words of God can and need to produce. There must be times when we allow God’s Word to literally shut the mouths of some who hear it. And that includes us as preachers.

In this chapter, I want to attempt to get us to see the need for times when we allow God’s Word to speak, and we are simply quiet!

In Ezra, God uses the word “astonied” for the first time in His Book. From the usage in context the meaning is clear. The word is similar to the words astonish or astonished as God also writes

Def. Astonish- To shun or to strike dumb with sudden fear, terror, surprise or wonder; to amaze; to confound with sudden passion.

When there is something that needs to be corrected in the lives of God’s people, we who are called to use God’s Word for that admonishment; must allow God’s Word to have its silencing affect: especially in situations of sinful and disobedient behavior. God has promised us that His Word will accomplish what He sent it to do. There will be cases when all we must do is to speak or read His Word to the disobedient; and let God shut their mouths; instead of trying to do so in our own power.

This too is how a preacher learns to set himself aside, and let God by His Spirit do the work with the tools of His Word. Read this part of the story in Ezra. You will see much that can be applied to this particular effect of The Word of God.

Ezra 9:1-4 “Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass. And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied. Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.”

I wonder how many times an old-fashioned Baptist preacher attempted to correct a serious problem in a church by using his own words instead of allowing God to silence him and the people first!

As you read the rest of that story in Ezra, you will see the benefit of the silencing power of God’s Word. The main lesson being that the preacher counted himself to be just as much a part of that sinful problem, and allowed God’s Word to rebuke and correct the whole assembly as one. He was not above the same needed rebuke. The Word humbled him into silence before he spoke for God!

Ezra 10:1 ”Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.”

I know that a rebuke from the words of the pastor ‘might’ carry enough power to fix a problem; but I am absolutely sure that a rebuke directly from The Word of God will accomplish exactly what God planned when He first wrote those Words!

I have heard many a preacher begin his sermon with the prayer, “Lord, hide me behind the cross as I preach.” Perhaps we ought to pray with understanding the need to be hidden behind the Words we are about to speak! Amen!

Chapter 12

The Immutability of God’s Word

Hebrews 6:17-19 “Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast…”

We, who use God’s Words as our tools to help people, have a strong confidence in that which we preach and teach. We can rely on the fact that what we say, based only on God’s Word, will cause those who will to hear it to have “…hope…” and “…an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast…”

The word, “…immutable…” that God chose to use in His Book means: “invariable; unalterable; not capable or susceptible of change.” What a word!

It also teaches us that the nature of God is, “unchangeable.” We now live in a ‘religious world’ of many false churches, and deceived people that think God and His Word have changed to suit the times. If they could only grasp the meaning of the words “immutable” and immutability,” many who are actually saved in those ministries would burn their false versions of the bible, run from a church which uses such, and they would start a search for a Church with a preacher who knows what God means when he says, “God’s Word.”

Immutability is an undeniable attribute of God. The 1828 English Dictionary records,

‘Immutability is the quality that renders change or alteration impossible; Immutability is an attribute of God.”

When an authentic Bible believer, reads just those two words and their definition… that born again person fully understands that this same meaning…transfers 100% to each word as found in our perfectly preserved and inspired Copy of God’s Book in our King James Bible.

Because of the words “immutable” and “immutability,” we understand that The Same God Who gave us a copy of His Word, cannot have two differing sets of the truth containing differing words. That would make God a liar; and it is “…impossible for God to lie…” That would make Him a confusing writer; and our God; The One Who gave us The King James Bible; wrote that “…God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.” I Corinthians 14:33

If a preacher uses his opinions based on his own words, the people under him will be confused and unsure about their faith in God’s Bible. They will not trust that preacher’s word. They will continue to search for the truth, but find no real hope as they attempt to live for God. We on the other hand, must know and preach from a heart and mind that has received the fact of “…the immutability of his counsel…”

We, who have learned only from God’s Word, also know and believe that God is not capable of changing His Word once it was given out. In Psalm 89:34, God wrote, “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips.” When words such as these are our tools, we do not have to go back and “correct” something we said, at least not very often. When we had to do so, it was because God’s Word corrected us; for we failed to get what He said the first time, from His Word.

As I look at the words “immutable” and “immutability,” I see other applications that we can use. The word “mute” comes to mind. The direct opposite of this word is implied in the words “immutable” and “immutability.”

Def. Mute- Silent; not speaking; not uttering words, or not having the power of utterance; dumb. Mute may express temporary silence, or permanent inability to speak.

We can apply this to the fact that as long as we use God’s Words as our tools for the ministry, we will always have something to say; and we will always have the power of God to say it for us! We will not be a spiritual mute when we get up to preach!!

Mute in the case of law, is “a person that stands speechless when he ought to answer or plead.”

As we use God’s “…immutable…” Words, we will not be speechless…mute… when asked for answers.

1Peter 3:15 ‘But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear…”

We will be able to plead with the lost to be saved; the deceived to a renewed mind, and the disobedient to obey as we attempt to fulfil our calling to get them all ready for the day when they will be judged by God’s Word at The Judgment Seat of Christ.

The Lord said in John 12:48, “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.” We as preachers, and the precious folks who hear us, need to know that the words we use are in fact getting them ready for that final day! If they understand this better, perhaps they will not hit the ‘spiritual mute button’ when we preach to them.

In music, a mute is a little utensil of wood or brass, used to deaden or soften sounds. When we have full respect for the use of God’s Words, we will not deaden or soften what we must teach and preach to only tickle “…itching ears….” II Timothy 4:3-4 warns us as preachers, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” If we give in by not using God’s Words, then we are a form of a mute.

There are also other usages of the word mute, but I will direct you to Webster’s 1828 Dictionary for them…especially if you want a very pointed application of what many people in churches with false bibles are left with after they hear those “feigned words. It is written in Scripture that the devil is able to take the seed of God’s word out of the hearts of those who do not understand it. God uses the fowls of the air as words to help explain this. The word mute is also the droppings of a bird!

People desperately need to hear “…immutable …” words!

I’m sure by now you have also thought to apply words like mutation and mutilate to this subject. These words are diametrically opposed to the concept of “…immutability…” They do not exist in the vocabulary or workings of The Immutable God! By the way, because of this, I am very apprehensive in referring to false bibles as “other versions.” Those literary mutations of man have been mutilated over and over again with each revision. They are not merely false versions. The verbiage and “…feigned words…” in such books are mutations from another world…the devils world! But God’s Word and every One of The Words in His Book; are and will always remain “…immutable things…”

The “…immutability…”of God and His book provide us with some sharp and powerful spiritual tools.

We know, we serve The “…immutable…” God.

We know He is the sole Author of His Book.

We know that as long as there is one copy of a King James Bible, and one old fashioned Bible Believing Baptist preacher left on this earth; The Word of God will not and cannot be silenced!

We know that when a lost soul hears, trusts, and receives The Gospel and is “…born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever…” (I Peter 1:23), that that person will also live forever in Heaven.

We know that when a saved person hears and receives this word; that the spiritual effect is impossible to be silenced in their soul.

We know that because our God is “…immutable…” we have available to us a strength and a hope which goes far beyond any person or thing that is susceptible to change.

We know that because of the “…immutability…” of the inspired and preserved Words in God’s King James Bible; that only those words have in them the power and breath of God, and that they are able to keep us as a part of the Old-Time Religion: that One Faith which refuses to change.

We know that because of our stand with the “…immutable…” One, we are considered out of touch with this present ecumenical attempt to revise Bibles and Christianity. I’ll take “…immutability…” over change any day! Amen!

We, by faith in these things, must allow the sharpness of The Tools of Our Trade do their Holy work.

Chapter 13

One And The Word

John 12:47-48 “And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.”

Did you notice that little word “…one…”? And, the two words “…the same…”?

It is without dispute that words were the divine tools used by The Lord Jesus. After He wrote His Book, and It was“…settled forever in Heaven…” It was with those words that He stood and spoke all other things into existence!

Hebrews 11:3, gives us a glimpse of the verbal and literal Power of The Letter of The Word of God “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”

Those spiritual implements were each chosen as a definite means to an eternal end. When all is said and done, every person ever conceived will stand before “…one that judgeth him…” That “…one…” is none other than The Words of The Word of God.

To a Bible believer, the truth of the words in John 12 will be the internal constraint for how we think and conduct or lives while in this human body on Earth.

These words speak of a “…last day…” on the eternal calendar of The Almighty.

We also read of this day in Romans 14:10 “But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”

And again we get a spiritual sight of that “…last day…” in II Corinthians 5:10-11, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord…”

All of these verses of The Scripture teach us that there is such a day in our future, on which The Lord Jesus will open a Book which will serve as The “…one that judgeth…” What a picture in Words! Do you see The Lord Jesus standing, not as The Judge, but as The One Who made Salvation possible for all men who receive Him? There He is, ready to reckon with each saved person. And what does He do? From on The Bench of The Almighty, see one of those nail scarred hands as The Redeemer Himself, picks up The Presiding Judge of that day; which is called the “…one…” Of that very hour He has recorded in His Book that He is not the judge…But, His Word is! Yes, we know and believe that Jesus and The Word are “…one…” in “…the same…” That only serves to create more of a perfect picture of God as One Being, being more than one: The Trinity!!!

The word “…one…” in God’s Book is a powerful and authoritative verbal tool. It needs no other. It has no mixture. It has neither equal nor an equivalent outside of itself. It has no other that compares to it, nor can it be compared to another. It stands alone. There are not two of them that differ. It has never been revised. It needs no correction. It has always been “…one…” and “…the same…” For an eternity it still remains The One, and The ONLY ONE, “…the word…”! And, that single “…one…” is made up of the “…words…” of Jesus Christ: Who is The Living Word of God.

John 1:1-2, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.”

Those who are called to teach and to preach this “…one…” thing, are to have just this “…one…” tool as our main tool. That “…one…” thing is an unbroken chain of inspired words. Anything less is not the “…one…”

As we use this great tool, God is then able to use us to get people ready for that “…last day…” Any saved person who is able to grasp this truth would plead with evangelists,’ their pastor and teachers of The Bible, to help them to be ready for that last hour with their “…one…” and final Judge.

Isn’t it frustrating and heartbreaking, to know that some people think that this “…one…” has so many differing versions of itself? To a logical mind who can understand the meaning of the word “…one…” as it is used by God The Author, there is no confusion of mind. There is only faith in what God has Written. We know and believe that God is ONE. That One Eternal Being is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Each of those three are each 100% God and equally The “…one…”God If just “…one…” of those three eternal persons, which are all God, as individuals and as together, were removed, altered, or added to…God would not be, and He would never have been, because He Is Immutable!!!

So it is with “…the words…”of Jesus. Every word as individuals and together are “…one…” As He said and wrote, “…the word…” is “…the same…” “…one…” that will be the judge in “…the last day…”

What was just written is simple. Yet it is the foundational truth for The Written Word of God. The Lord Jesus is saying to us that He by Himself is not The Judge. Why? Because He is not complete without His WORD! So many people who think they believe in a Bible have missed that fact. The Scriptures teach that God has placed His Word above His own name. In Psalm 138:2, God moved the Psalmist to write and give us the proof of this truth.

“I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.”

He in His eternal wisdom designed and built this amazing authority structure in words. He has set this in Scriptural Stone by the tools of His own Mind and Hand! His Word is also The Authority over Him, because He made it so.

It will be that Authority which will be the “…one…” there on that day to do the judging; and that will be The Written Word of God. Because God is ONE, so is His Word. Many “…words…” in “…one…” God-Breathed Book “…given by inspiration of God…”(II Timothy 3:16)

There is not two differing versions of The God of Heaven. There is not two differing versions of The Father. There is not two differing versions of The Son. And there is not two differing versions of The Holy Ghost of God. They are all together and as individuals still eternally “…one…”

We must use this great tool of God’s forging, to work in and on those to whom we are called to help build up. We must understand the extreme importance of the need to get those precious people ready for that “…last day…” When they stand one-on-one, before God, much of how they do on that day will be directly connected to how we have used the tools of our calling.

Jeremiah 23:29 “Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?”

This word “…one…” is a powerful tool to be used to chisel away at the false ideas about there being more than one version of the English Bible. The precept of just “…one…” is not all that hard to understand. The simplicity of its meaning is no doubt the point of the greatest attack on The Word of God. In the beginning with man, The LORD gave one simple command; just “…one…” rule. The LORD God also spelled out the consequence for the breaking of that single requirement. Disobedience to that “…one…” simple law meant the immediate death. of man’s spirit; with the death of soul and body to follow. This consequence would pass on to every soul who did not receive God’s redemptive plan of Salvation.

Satan knew it then and he knows it now. Those devilish words have been repeated by him over and over again. But today, Satan himself does not have to speak the words, “…Yea, hath God said…”? That feigned tongued serpent has many men and women to speak for him; every time they read or teach a word from a false bible.

Thank God that He has given us “…one…” Book which supplies us with every tool needed, to help ourselves as preachers, and others who hear us to be ready to stand before God and His Word: the “…one…”

Chapter 14

The Word Removed From Hearts

Matthew 13:19 “When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.”

As we employ the tools of words to attempt to see hearts moved and act upon what we speak, we must be conscious of a tool of “…the wicked one…” That is, he has the ability, to remove what we just said from the heart of one, who does not understand the words we preach.

Every true preacher of The Word of God has at times experienced this heartbreak. But, some may not have applied the teaching of this parable to that problem.

It is a blessing to watch what we teach and preach be taken in; and to see God’s Word work in hearts, minds and lives. But then there are those frustrating occasions when we have prayed for power, prepared on paper, and preached with God’s presence in our heart, only to witness our use of God’s words falling to the earth and trampled down.

The reason for this is covered here by The Lord Jesus in Matthew 13:19. As you read The Scriptures, you will see that He too had this happen as He spoke to some people. But when He recognized that this was taking place, He stopped and called it out! In John8:43 God recorded this for us so we too could be aware of it.

The Lord Jesus was preaching to what we would call a religious crowd who should have understood the words of The Scriptures. But as He spoke, He had to stop and ask them, “Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. The Lord’s question was not for His own information, but to inform an unseen presence that He knew what was happening as He spoke!

The Master Preacher was well aware of the level of their not being able to understand. He did not just continue to speak until He confronted them with the origin of their lack of understanding His words: which was, their “…father the devil…” (John 8:44)

We must always be aware of the fact that Satan may be in the air of the assembly place looking to remove what we say from hearts. Just the fact that a preacher is aware of this removes the full power of “…the wicked one…” to use his evil tool on our hearers. As we teach and preach we must ask The Holy Spirit to make us aware of the strength of our witness as we use the tools of God’s words.

In our introduction to any Bible sermon or study, we ought to carefully establish the basic definition of the words of our main subject. This will get more of the people on the same page with us. I have sat at times through half a sermon before I understood the full use of the words I was attempting to hear. If we can do our best to eliminate such a lack of understanding, “…the wicked one…”will not be able to work under his cloak of darkness.

Taking the necessary time to define our words as we speak is like a tradesman who uses time to prepare, tune, and sharpen every tool before he goes to work. Our calling is directly involved with the use of words as our tools, yet many times those words are just said without any conscious thought as to how they are being received.

This is a spiritual matter of extreme importance. The Apostle Peter, the preacher whom God put on the platform to preach the first New Testament sermon at Pentecost, was aware of this situation as he spoke. As you read the sermon recorded in Acts 2 and you will see him carefully explain to his hearers exactly what he was saying; and the result of him doing so was amazing!

We must ask the help of The Holy Ghost of God. We are made aware of The Apostles understanding of the need for help from The Holy Spirit as we read in Acts 5:32-33

“And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him. When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.”

Now, Peter may not have seen the result he desired in that particular sermon, but he knew…that those who heard him knew…. exactly what was said!

Chapter 15

Words: The Substance of all things.

Hebrews 11:3 “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”

Revelation 19:15 “And out of his mouth goes 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.”

II Peter 3:10-13 “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”

In these verses, it is evident that words were the tools used “In the beginning...” (John 1:1), and are the basis for all things created; and one day, it will be the use of words which will also be the beginning of the end of the destruction of this world and beyond. All of the creation of the past which we now see, was the result of words spoken by The Lord Jesus. When He stood at the beginning of time and said, in Genesis 1:3 “… Let there be light…” The power in those words was unleashed and their sound went forth, “…and there was light.” And, yet to come in our future, the creation will also be subject to power in the inspired words of II Peter 3:10, “…the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”

At the forceful, verbal wielding of those words, the deconstruction of the present creation will also be accomplished… as spoken by the Lord Jesus: The Word of God.

Everything has been and will be accomplished by use of the Word of God. I do not believe that the Book of God’s Words was only a reference by which all things were made, I believe the Words of the Book, and the power contained in each of them, were the tools that created all things that were made. The Words were truly “… the substance…” of all things created.

John 1:1-3 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

The Words in God’s Book are truly the “… substance…” of all things.

As preachers of the Word of God, when we understand, apply, and practice this truth, we are then able to use the Words of God to build anything that we need to build. Whether it be a life of a lost soul needing to be saved, or a child of God that is backslidden or broken. Or, it might be a church that needs to be repaired, reinforced, or built from the foundation up. Whatever the case, we have been given, “…by inspiration…”all the tools, and the “…elements…” we need in the form of words.

We have to know and be aware of the fact that the words which we use either have in them the command of creation, or not. We who believe that the Bible is The Book of inspired and preserved words, have the potential to use this power. We do not have to build things in our own strength, nor with our own words. If our words come from the thoughts generated by God’s Words, His power will be transferred into the speaking of those words.

I believe God expects us to get to the place, where we see in His Words the application of this truth. Just to know this, and be consciously aware of it, will help us as we use the Word of God to try and affect the lives of others.

When you hear the words of God spoken, are you consciously aware of the creating power of those Words? If you stand to teach or preach the Word of God, is this truth in you every time you speak from the Words of God’s Book? In your private time with God, meditating in His Words; are the Words as spelled out in His Book the tools which form the thoughts of your devotion to Him? In your worship to God, is it the power in His Words, which lift you from self, and sin, up from this world and into His presence?

Whether you are a Pastor, assistant to your Pastor, Evangelist, a Sunday school teacher, a faithful church member, or a Bible teacher in a Baptist College, you too can tap into this eternal source of power. The more this is grasped, it will build your faith in the use of the Words in the Book of God; for you, and for those who hear you open up The Words in God’s Book.

Romans 10:17-18 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.”

As is true that the Words of God can build all things, we must also understand that our words can be used to tear things down. We must be conscious of both as we speak. Our goal ought always to be to have the words which we speak to be used by God as He intends them to be used. With God, whether words are used to create or to destroy, all will be eventually known to be for His purpose. You and I on the other hand, have to be aware that we must use words properly. We must plan to do so. For instance. The more we use the Words of God as we to speak to people, the more they will be helped to be convinced as to the truth, convicted when in error, or comforted in times of testing. The more of God’s Words we can get in them, stronger they will stand. For this to take place requires all people to have not only to hear the Words; but they must be led to understand God’s Words, so that the power contained in every Word will affect their lives!

Are we not commanded to “… preach the word…? When God said in, Psalm 119:11 “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.” Isn’t He also teaching us about the power in the Words of God, and what they will do if those words are in us? If this is at work, all those who hear us as we use the words of God, from The Book of God, can and will be helped.

By the way, stop and consider the sad plight of those who have to sit under teachers and preachers who have no respect for, and will not use only the inspired and perfectly preserved words of our King James Bible. When saved people are subject to sit under preaching where the Words of God are not used, all they receive are “…feigned words…” eloquently deposited into their hearts from the rudiments of the devils’ fowls of the air!

As I am thinking about this subject, it is not impossible to imagine that everything that we see and know are really a constitution, a composition, an arrangement, and configuration of words. We as human beings are what we are because of the words we learn, understand, and obey…or not! The Churches of which we are members are the same; a local Baptist assembly based on God’s Words…or not!

It may be that we do not yet see or understand all the words, but we do see the evidence of the substance of the words presently active in our minds and hearts.

As we think of the people to whom God has called us to serve, we ought to take a closer look at what we have attempted to put into their lives; For what we see is actually the accumulation of the words they have learned as they study the Word of God, and what we as teachers and preachers have put into their lives from the Word of God. That is very sobering thought. Many times we speak so many words that really do not help people. We give our own opinions. We give our own thoughts. From our own understanding we teach another’s version theology. When all that we should do, ought to be completely birthed by, based upon, and built from the Words of God’s vocabulary.

As a God-called preacher, such a man is said to have a “…vocation…” Think of this statement, and then I will attempt to explain it in this application.

Men in The Lord’s kind of Baptist Churches, are men called by God to call others to obedience to The Word of God.

Of course this is accomplished by use of words. We are called by The Word of God; and we are to fulfill our calling by faithfully teaching and preaching the Word of God. That is the definition of the word “…vocation…”

Ephesians 4:1 “I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called…”

When the power contained in this Word “…vocation…” is opened up to the thinking, I then understand that my calling, and that of every faithful called man, is built and is constituted by The Creator and Giver of this Word. When you discover that in that Word is the word “voice,” things get spiritually interesting surrounding this subject! I have been called by The Voice of God’s Word, to speak The Words of His Book in the “occupation, employment; calling; and trade of a divine call” on my life. I have been given a calling from God… the “…vocation…” of calling people to God, with my voice, by means of The Words of God! All this is to build people with The Words of God’s Book.

As I am writing this, I seem to know that there is so much more to this subject of which I do not understand. I do know, “…by faith..,” that this is how the Lord Jesus “…framed…” “…the worlds.” By His Word. I know I and others who are called, have got learn to see the people we serve in terms of words. We must see their strengths and their spiritual deficiencies in the light of The Word of God. We are not to be respecters of persons in any way. All must be according to what we see in The Bible. We must point all people to God’s Words and let those Words change them from the inside out. And, we too must show The Words upon which our personal life as preachers and servants have been built.

We can literally say that our lives ought to be an example of Scriptural “…substance…” If we compare anything or anyone; let it be only compared to and by The Word of God. If there is one thing that is definitely lacking today among God’s people, and we as preachers, it is verbal“…substance…”

We as the saved of God, are no more and no less than the Divine Vocabulary of The Scriptures which live in us!

The strength of our lives and the control of our character is the evidence of the substance by which we have so far been built!

With that in mind, look at the application of the words of II Corinthians 3:1-6

“Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Hey! The Words of our King James Bible are not just letters on a page! They are directly from God and are “…spirit...!” His Words are spiritual things!

John 6:63 “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

Perhaps these words will cause us to be more aware of just what His Words really are, and we will be soberly conscious of what They will produce if we stand on Them!!

Look carefully at, II Peter 3:1-11. In the context of these verses, the apostle ties the creation of the world and the destruction of the world together in these words. And it is easy to see that it’s all according to the Word of God. As you read these words, think of the subject at hand. But especially when you get to the last sentence of these verses.

“This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...”

What a question! We ought to be the kind of “…persons..,” who make our speech, “… holy conversation…” to help people by the Word of God. Every time we open our mouths we ought to show the literal, verbal substance of our new nature. As others view our lives, they must be shown evidence of the work that The Words of God have wrought in and on our lives.

Hebrews 11:1-3 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

Colossians 2:6 “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”

Let’s determine afresh to allow The Lord to build in us more spiritual“…substance…” so that we can be better used to turn the Words of that “…substance…” into visible “…evidence…” in our lives and in the lives of those whom we serve.

Chapter 16

A Final Word of Warning

Jeremiah 23:31 “Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.”

When we in Independent Bible-Believing, Baptist Churches fail to use and teach Bible words, the truth will not be fully understood. When we say, “Thus saith The LORD…” we must be sure we are in full agreement with God’s words. When we are teaching about, attempting to explain, or defining one of His words, we must also be careful not to use words that would cause Jehovah to have to set Himself against what we say.

By The LORD’S design, Words are the key to gaining eternal life, and are the means by which born again people gain the understanding to learn, and to have the power to live according to the will of God.

When a teacher, preacher, or a writer, uses other terms for God’s words, without defining them according to the Bible: The effect of the Words will be diminished. The LORD wrote in Deuteronomy 4:2…”Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.”

We must not allow the choice of our own words to cause us to be in violation of this Scriptural mandate. We know from the reading of the Bible, that God’s Words are often explained by those whom God used to record His Word on earth. The Apostles often quoted the inspired words from what we call Old Testament verses. in the writing of the New Testament, God also gave inspired words to those men. Both the Scriptures they quoted, and their explanations were also from the use of inspired words as given directly by God’s Spirit. Now, when we are teaching, or preaching from The Scripture, of course “our words” are not “inspired.” We must be sure that when we use other than words from The Bible, that we do not allow our choice of words or terms to take anything away from God’s inspired words. We must be careful to define Bible Words with Bible terms and examples. This will allow the power in God’s words to be at full capacity to be heard, used, received, and practiced.

The more a person has been around only Bible words and terms, the easier it is for them to identify the use of words which water-down, and weaken the effect of God’s words. Many men who have faithfully taught and preached God’s Word, can hear a person speak, and with some accuracy, they are able to recognize what kind of church they are involved with; who and what they have been listening to; and even which so-called version of the Bible they have been reading.

In honour to God and His Word, we must be careful not to allow protestant, catholic, or some other theological religious sounding terms, to be our definition of The Words written and inspired of God.

It is a wise thing to know and respect each of The LORD’s authorized words, and to be careful not to “...diminish...” them with words from our “...tongues...”

Those who do so, with just one of His words, will cause those who hear it, to miss out on all that The LORD intended for His Word to produce in them.

God defines His words; we are to apply them as they were given. A word of His will have one interpretation, but many applications. One of His words may be used to address many differing circumstances; but never do they cause a contradiction. Some of His words have many usages; but the Word itself is not to be changed.

The Lord wrote that those in His New Testament Churches are to be responsible for teaching and preaching the truth. I Timothy 3:15 says to the preacher, “But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”

Let’s make sure we do not harm, weaken, or limit “...the truth...” of God’s Word, by our choice of words.