Preservation of Scripture, Pt. 2 (05/20/2001)

The battle over beliefs it was a battle over the manuscripts.

They have depraved the scriptures by their doctrines and glosses.

Do you know what a gloss is if you study this manuscript evidence?

You'll see the word time and again.

It's a place where the scribe changed what the Bible said to fit what he wanted it to say.

It's called a gloss and You can go back to Alex who traces the italic

Ancient Latin version and quotes these people who believed only in the Bible who

were obviously not Roman Catholics and They criticized the Popes and the priests who depraved the scriptures

by their own doctrines and by changing the manuscripts with their glosses.

I Found this in the book.

I quoted earlier churches of the Piedmont by Alex.

It is recognized that the Atala was translated from the received text.

In other words the and here again, we use that word in the general sense.

It's not a thing.

It's a line of it's a line of manuscripts or a type of manuscript.

Which came from the Syrian which of course Antioch is the capital of the Syrian world back in that

day even Hort Recognized it earlier in the quote as the

message began this morning.

That the Vulgate is the Italia in other words the modern Latin Vulgate is

the Italia with the readings of the received text removed and

I quote that from a book called our Bible and the ancient manuscripts by a man named Kenyon.

Kenyon by the way does not agree with the received text theory.

But he still wrote that in his book that it is recognized that The Latin

Vulgate is the old Italia or the ancient Latin Bible with the things

changed the Protestant Verses changed and made to be more of a Roman Catholic

Bible.

So I think the history is fairly clear on these two lines of manuscripts.

For Waldensian works influenced John Calvin.

Now we come up into a time in history that we are more familiar with With what we call the

modern Protestant Reformation.

But what's interesting is it's not such a clear -cut as one would say it is not just simple.

It's not enough to say that what we had was Martin Luther who was a Roman Catholic who tried to

stay in the Catholic movement.

Which he did but then who came out because he did see that it was salvation by

grace.

And then from Luther we had Calvin and from Calvin we had this so we got the Presbyterian Church came from

it the Lutheran Church and on and on it's not that simple because the fact is that John Calvin

was influenced by the Waldensians.

Who had these beliefs long before Luther ever came out of the Roman Catholic Church?

So there is an admixture if you want to use the word Protestantism in the general broad sense is

the fact is it's just a group of people who protested against the Pope and the Catholic traditions

and even the Bible that they used and This group of people was in

direct contact with John Calvin.

For Waldensian works influenced John Calvin.

We know that he had a Greek Dictionary.

We had a Waldensian vernacular and we had a French and an Italian version of

The Bible that Luke that John Calvin read.

Calvin was tutored by Oliveton, which was the French Waldensian and

according to ledger Calvin recognized a Relationship to the Calvins

of the Valley of st. Martin one of the Waldensian valleys.

He was even kin to these people.

So as God brings this line of manuscripts up to

what we would call more modern history and brings it into the hands of Calvin and Ledger and

and in Oliveton over in France and the different Protestants in the different countries of the

Western world.

He brought this manuscript through the ancient Waldensians that they had used all the way back to the ancient

Latin version now.

What did the Protestant the modern Protestants do they were also living in what age?

The Renaissance and what came with the Renaissance.

Printing presses and.

So they printed Copies of this line of manuscript in whatever language they

spoke of the day.

So we have a French Bible today that follows this same received text.

We have Martin Luther's German Bible that follows the received text.

We have the King James Bible and others before the King James all of the English translations

followed the received text that your King James is based upon.

Unquestionably the leaders of the Reformation the Reformation German French and English were

convinced that the received text was the genuine New Testament because of its irresistible

history.

Internal evidence and the fact that it matched the Waldensian form of Bibles.

Which is traced back to almost to the times of the Apostles.

Two streams of descent of the received text may be followed through the Greek Eastern Church and then the

Waldensian in the West which would have been Latin they met

as associates of Calvin and Beza and Olivet on and ledger and

Dio Dati of Italy produced Bibles in these different languages from

this Greek text.

Olivet and translated the received text into French.

Calvin later Translated his into English with the

from Geneva and then we later had the Geneva Bible Martin Luther into German and The

Olivet and in turn becomes the basis of the Geneva Bible which was the leading English Bible until the

King James appeared.

Dio Dati translated the received text into Italian.

Interesting point of history sir Samuel Moreland under the protection of Oliver Cromwell, which is

a figure you'll remember Received from ledger the Waldensian New Testament

Which now lies in the Cambridge University Library and this occurred after the

1655 massacre.

Now When you talk about a massacre, it's real easy just to use the word.

And say well this happened after the 1655 massacre and then just go on and discuss the manuscript evidence and so forth.

My point this morning is to show you that there is an identifiable Line of

Greek manuscripts that go back through the reformation and the Protestant era as far back

as 400 AD.

I'm not saying there is one manuscript that you can find but I'm saying that as you match these groups of

manuscripts as They diverge and differ from the Roman Catholic manuscripts.

They are alike they are alike in the difference and people died for that difference

and.

So as we see these Massacres that take place.

Let me just read to you a little bit of history from Fox's Book of Martyrs in the year 1524 at a

town in France called Melden one John Clark set up a Bill on the

church door wherein he called the Pope the Antichrist.

Now.

Do we have the guts to do stuff like that today?

You know.

Well for this offense he was repeatedly whipped now see we can read over that very quickly, but put

yourself there and be stripped naked and tied to a post in public and whipped.

Until you're almost dead.

He was repeatedly whipped and then branded on the forehead.

Now.

This is the way the Roman Catholics dealt with people.

Going afterward to mince in Lorraine this same man John Clark

Demolished some images.

Now how many of you would go after lunch today down to the Catholic Church?

Walk in the door with a sledgehammer and just destroy all their images.

You have the guts to do that.

Well this this man did this.

For which he had his right hand and nose cut off and his arms and breast

torn with pinchers.

He sustained these cruelties with amazing fortitude and was even sufficiently cool to sing the

115th Psalm.

Which expressly forbids idolatry?

After which he was thrown into the fire and burnt to ashes.

Many persons of the Reformed persuasion were about this time beaten racked Scourged and burnt

to death in several parts of France, but more particularly in Paris Malta and limousine a

Native of Malta was burnt by slow fire for saying that mass was plain

Denial of the death and passion of Christ.

Do you understand what the mass is in?

The mass they say the Catholics even to today say that they are literally eating the body of Jesus and so that's

that way Christ is in them and This person in Malta was burnt by slow

fire.

Not just fire but slow fire for simply making the comment that the mass

was plainly denying the death of Jesus Christ as sufficient for removal of sin

at limousine.

Another clergyman of the Reformed religion was apprehended in order to be burnt.

Francis Bridbard secretary to the Cardinal.

For speaking in favor of the Reformed had his tongue cut out and was then burnt

around the year 80 1545.

There was a schoolmaster or a schoolteacher who was burnt in 1545 for saying that the mass was

useless and absurd and About the same time 14 men were burnt at

Malta their wives being compelled to stand by and behold the execution.

Now there's you know, you just need to pick this up and read this book.

It will change your life, but there's a thing called the Bartholomew massacre in Paris

and it had to do with this same difference between the Protestants and the

Catholics and I can't even really read this in here.

Today with children here and and even with women present but it literally lays

out exactly what the Roman Catholics did to these people all because they

Believed in just simply the pure Word of God.

They did not believe in the traditions.

They didn't believe in the mass.

They believed in the Word of God.

They had their own version of the Bible which differed from the Roman Catholics version version of the Bible which made them

very furious and They tried to burn it out stamp it out and they couldn't get rid of it.

It lions 800 people were massacre massacred this woman's

children.

Were hanging on the children were hanging on to the parents and the parents affectionately embracing their

children.

Were pleasant food for the swords and the bloodthirsty minds of those who called themselves the

Catholic Church here 300 were slain in the bishop's house and

the Impious monks would suffer none to be buried.

They just threw him out on the ground and left him there.

And you can go through and read For hours and it'll break your heart.

But what it'll also do is it will let you know What a strong faith

these people had now I believe this.

I Believe that the modern translations are also part of the

sovereignty of God.

Second Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 3 says let no man deceive you by any means.

For that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be

revealed the son of perdition.

This word falling away is the word aposthesia.

Which means defection from the truth, but it comes from a Greek root word, which means to

remove to remove there must

be a removal of information in order for there to be this

Falling away.

Well Amos talks about it in Amos chapter 8 in verse 9 and following where it says

behold the days come sayeth the Lord God that I will send a famine in the land not a famine of bread nor a thirst

for water.

But of hearing of the words of the Lord and they shall wander from sea to sea and from north even to the east.

They shall run to and fro and seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it.

It's really interesting to look at the Hebrew words behind those two sentences that I just read where it

says.

It'll be a famine of the hearing of the word.

The word hearing means to hear intelligently.

It doesn't mean that they won't hear the word preached or that they can't read the word.

It means they cannot intelligently understand it.

And then when it says they will seek the Word of God and shall not find it.

It doesn't mean that there won't be books called Bibles.

This word seek is the Hebrew word Balkash, which means to search out a

thing.

They will search out and try to find the Word of God and they can't find it.

There are Bibles today right now in the English language that contain things that are not

God's Word.

You can trace it back to a Greek line of manuscripts that was predominantly changed by Jerome and

then others before him.

To fit more along the lines of what the Roman Catholics Wanted to believe but it is

prophesied by Amos that that is going to come to pass.

It is told us in the New Testament there will have to be a great falling away and all of these things

are God's sovereign will and These modern scholars who are not the men of prayer that

that the men used to be who did this type of scholarship.

These modern scholars many of whom are in fact Roman Catholics.

Like Westcott and Hort are proven Mary worshipers who have given us these modern versions.

I just don't believe that's how God Kept it.

I think he kept it through the blood -bought church down through the ages.

And I think if you'll do an honest study, you're gonna find some things that will surprise you.

You're gonna find that a lot of the manuscripts don't match word for word.

But what you are gonna find is that there is a sense To the manuscripts that come down through that line

of the Protestant movement all the way from 400 AD all the way up through what?

We call the Protestant movement that is in divergence from the Catholic Bible.

We find this great falling away.

The Greek word means a removal of something.

Isn't it interesting the different things?

We've looked at in this study such as in several verses where the word Lord was Separated from the word

Jesus.

Isn't it interesting that there are many places where the word cross is Separated from the life of the believer such as in

Mark 10 21 in these Bibles.

Isn't it interesting that Joseph is called the father of Jesus with no clarification in these

Catholic Bibles in Luke chapter 2 verses 33 and 43, but not in the Protestant Bible.

Isn't it interesting that in Luke 4 8 where Jesus said get thee behind me Satan?

You don't find that in the do -a -version, but you do find it in the King James version.

Isn't it interesting where in Luke 4 41 where the demons recognize that Jesus was Christ?

You don't find that in the Catholic do -a -version or the Latin Vulgate.

But you do find it in the ancient bulk in the ancient Latin Bible the Italian that has come up through the

Protestant era to today.

Isn't it interesting where in Acts 2 30 where it says according to the flesh he raised up Christ.

You don't find that it's been removed.

Isn't it interesting in Acts 8 37 where it says I believe that Jesus is the Son of God is not

there.

It's been removed.

Isn't it interesting in Acts 9 verses 5 and 6 in Paul's conversion the actual

point of his conversion where he said Lord What would you have me to do is not in the Bible of the Roman

Catholics?

It's not in the modern versions that we have that Westcott and Hort tricked us into thinking were Protestant

Bibles.

Which never were in all of history that line of manuscripts was never accepted by any

of these Protestant people the non -catholics.

Acts 17 26 the blood is missing first Corinthians 5 7 the

Passover sacrificed for us that phrase is not found in their Bible in

Colossians 1 14 redemption through his blood we have redemption but not through his blood in

their Bible.

First Peter 4 1 he suffered for us in their Bible.

He merely suffered in our Bible.

He suffered for us in First John 5 7 and 8 where the triunity of God

is taught that verse is completely removed.

Why is that Westcott and Hort say it's not in any of the ancient versions and yet Cyril quoted

it about a hundred years before Constantine ever met and

It was in a Bible that he had in his lap.

Dating back that long ago to 250 AD.

That's a long time ago.

It was in a Bible back then.

But since Jerome you haven't found it in the Catholic Bibles nor in the modern quote

Protestant Bibles that come from that line.

What about Revelation 1 11 where Jesus called the Alpha and the Omega by the way, first John

5 7 and 8 Is probably the clearest verse in the whole Bible that mentions

the triunity of God?

And I'm gonna use that word rather than Trinity because I believe it's more accurate.

It's been removed.

Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end in Revelation 1 11 removed.

The entire book of Revelations is missing from Westcott Hort's favorite text the Vaticanus.

Because it's what talks about the mother of whores.

Interesting the Roman Catholic Church that parts removed from that Bible.

Which is the one that they say is the most accurate and the most ancient.

What about the phrase the darkness reserved for ever and ever for the false prophets?

That's not found in 2nd Peter 2 17 in that Bible.

What about and your body and your spirit which are gods that's not found in 1st

Corinthians 620 in that Bible.

What about take eat this is my body.

It's interesting the part about this is my body is found.

But the part about take and eat is not found in 1st Corinthians 11 24.

Heirs of God through Christ.

We're heirs of God in their Bible, but not through Christ.

It's been removed from Galatians 4 7.

What about who created all things by Jesus Christ in Ephesians 3 9 their Bible simply says God created

all things.

Well, we know that.

But it doesn't say by Jesus Christ.

What about God manifest in the flesh.

1st Timothy 3 16 there says who was manifest in the flesh?

What about he by himself purged our sins in Hebrews 1 3?

Did you know that in their Bible it simply says he purged our sins, but it doesn't say by himself.

You know why.

Because they need all their tradition to be involved in it, too.

They need the mass to be involved in it, too.

It is a Catholic line of manuscripts.

What about the fact that nobody came up mentioned to this to me after the message which I found was odd.

But I showed you in 2nd Samuel 21 19 where David did not kill Goliath in the

modern versions.

But they're the most accurate most ancient but your received text version.

Shows very clearly who killed Goliath in 2nd Samuel 21 19.

This apostasy this falling away through removing truth is found

in the Bible of origin.

The Alexander from Alexandria Egypt the beginning of natural scientific method of textual criticism

correcting the Bible this apostasy and falling away through removing truth

is found in Eusebius who Was with Constantine and they came up with the Catholic Bible at that

time, which is different than the Protestant Bible.

It is the removing is found in Westcott and Hort's Sinaticus from Egypt and their Vaticanus from

Rome is found in Jerome's Latin Vulgate.

Which is now the Roman Catholic modern Bible.

This removal of truth is found in the Alexandrian or the Egyptian Manuscripts.

It is found in the Douay.

Roman Catholic modern version is found in Griesbach Lachman which is what New American Standard he

funded the New American Standard Bible.

It's found in Griesbach Lachman Tregellus Turchendorf down through the Nestle

Alland Book which also returns to the modern scientific method of

textual criticism.

New American Standard Revised Standard NIV and some portions of the New King James Version.

These removal removals of truth are found but not in the line of manuscripts

translations.

From which we get our King James.

From which the Protestant people got their Bibles through the years.

The Greek Vulgate which even Hort said was the Protestant Bible.

The early Syrian Church Bible the fashita.

Which means the correct the simple the early English and Ireland Iroh Scottish

Church used.

The same line that's behind the received text the Gallic French Christians from

southern France that were so brutally destroyed.

And killed and their children and wives destroyed in front of the husbands and just you can't even describe what happens.

Get Fox's Book of Martyrs and read and read about it.

But the Bible that they used was from the received text.

The Walden sees of northern Italy.

Which we read about earlier was the received text.

The Reformers such as Luther in Germany Leger and Calvin in Geneva Olivet on in

France held BDS and deal Dottie in northern Italy.

All of these use the received text.

There is no scientific method by which the true word of God may be found today.

Because God didn't preserve it that way he preserved it through these blood -bought people.

Many of whom died for their faith, which really came from this Bible.

It shouldn't surprise us so much because in the 20th century.

Every great revival movement that has ever existed in our history used the received text.

Not these modern translations and not the Catholic version from which it stems.

So, what does the Bible say of itself.

It is preserved.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

It is secure eternally.

It is settled by counsel of God.

It is established in the best state.

It is sure pure protected.

Preserved and that is promised to each generation from the times of David.

It is preserved by the sovereign providence of God.

It is silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times by the blood of these believers.

Not by the Roman Catholics in the Bibles which match their Bible.

The Bible states that the method is this the true apostolic Church in First

Timothy 3 15 is said to be the pillar and ground of the truth.

Do you see that it's not some scholar over in Egypt like origin who's going to preserve the truth?

It's not some Roman Catholic scholar like Westcott and Hort that's going to give us the true word of God.

The Bible itself said it is the Church of the Living God.

Which is the pillar and ground of the truth?

So if you will just simply trace the born -again believers back from here all the way

back to the cross.

And you find out what type of Bible they read.

You'll see that your King James Bible though.

It's not a perfect translation.

It has some translational errors of a minor sort.

The Greek text from which it came can be traced back as Far back as you can go

and you'll find that it'll be the ones getting killed by the Catholics.

It won't be the Catholics that used it.

So the true Apostolic Church was the pillar and ground of the Bible and was Used by

God to preserve it and to recopy it and recopy it and recopy it and that's one reason it's called

a received text because the huge preponderance of Manuscripts that we have

match this text.

Just as the Word of God was preserved by the priestly scribes in the New Testament.

It was preserved by the believer priests the trail of blood.

Not Egypt the world not Roman Catholicism the whore.

But those which started in Antioch from Syria where they were first called

Christians.

This is where this trail began.

The majority of the original Artographs were believed by at least three different scholars to have ended up in that part of the

world.

And then we go to the early Greek Church the early Syrian Church the early English Ireland Scottish Church

Southern France northern Italy to the Reformers to John Calvin to Martin Luther in Germany.

To the Geneva Bible in English to the King James Bible of today the modern revivals of Wesley

Whitfield moody Tory Billy Sunday.

We're all blessed because this manuscript is the line of manuscripts that were used.

The modern missionary movement of William Carey Brainerd Taylor all use the received text.

That's the text that they used to translate into the different languages when they went on the mission field.

All the great Protestant denominations and the Baptists have always used this line of

manuscripts up until the Battle of Burgin and Westcott and Hort and then everything

changed.

So my assessment after looking at all of this vast amount of

information as I look at what the Bible says God's method

will be for preserving it.

It doesn't match the modern textual criticism.

Doesn't match that method because he said it would be the church it would be the pillar of the truth

and it is not difficult to trace the line of manuscripts that the church used and really.

Only in modern days have the Protestants changed and look how their theology has changed.

Why don't you parallel?

The modern theology with the use of the modern Bibles.

Have you ever thought to do that?

It matches it correlates perfectly and some of these very changes where we take away the

Lordship from the Jesus or What had brought about the modern Christianity that we see

all around us today?

So don't think for a minute that which version of the Bible you use is not important.

Don't think for a minute that there aren't clear and provable differences and Don't think for

a minute that history won't bear out which line matches the blood -bought Believers

and those who died for the faith.

That's the line.

I want to use.

I mean you can debate all the rest of your life if you want to about the modern critical methods

but I want to use the Bible that my brothers and sisters died with in their hands and

If you don't choose to I'm not mad at you.

I don't it's your own choice.

It's my job as your pastor to lead you in the area that I think will keep you the safest.

And that's what I've attempted to do and you take it from there, but it's not a thing.

We'll debate in this church a good friend of mine that discipled me when I first got saved.

Confronted a King James only person once who had just told a brand -new convert that that wasn't a Bible because he had an

NIV in his hand and My disciple named Gary looked at me and said David that person

is such a fool for telling that new convert that he said I'd rather him read The NIV than to

not read the King James.

You got to use some common sense.

But I think as you study You'll find that more and more your heart will go with

the fact that these doctrines of the faith that we've believed for so many thousands of years are born up

much better in the received text than they are in the modern manuscripts and in the Latin

Roman Catholic Bibles.

So thus we end the study on the preservation of the Word of God and we'll move into a new area.

Starting next week.

Let's stand and have prayer together.

Father we thank you for The history that did come through the burnings of the Roman

Catholic.

We know many of the books and Bibles of the Waldenses were actually destroyed by fire.

But a couple of manuscripts made it through.

So that we have some of the history preserved that we can read about we ask you to

Bless the Bible verses that we read in this message about how you preserved your word.

How you said you did it by the church to help us to be?

Have more understanding of how the Bible came to us today and father we pray that you'll give us

a peace in our hearts.

That as we read the scriptures.

If we do have a particular version and we come across a passage.

It just doesn't seem right to the ear that we'll have the freedom by the Holy Spirit to realize that.

That that's probably not the right line of scripture.

And so just guard us and protect us and keep us from that latency in Lukewarmness

that is in this age keep us from the falling away the removing of the truth.

Keep all of the truth that you have for us in this church until the Lord Jesus comes back for us.

And father bless our fellowship together and our meal and we ask it in Jesus name.

Amen.

Well, I kept my promise.

I just didn't tell you that there were three messages that I had to finish in one day.