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Join Mike and Steve in a special trivia show commemorating 400 years of the King James Version Bible. Can you guess which phrase is from Shakespeare, Aesop, the King James Bible, or a difference source?
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On Tuesdays across the country? With our opening act, David Lee Roth. I don't know. David Lee Roth.
That's funny. I did see Van Halen when I was younger, but they were the third act. They were the opening act, the pre-opening act, and that was before they were bigger. So see, I'm cooler because I recognize them for the talented people they were.
Yeah, I never saw them. Even though they were right down the street in Pasadena, Pasadena.
Who used to say that? Pasadena. I think that was, I don't know who it was. Okay, listen, here's what we wanna do today. Very interesting show, I think. And so we'll see how smart Steve is. Today is how smart is Steve?
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Into the 2011 May edition of Christianity Today, page 30, looks like 33 with my eyes. There's a article or a quiz about Shakespeare and the King James Bible, and there are a bunch of quotes, and you say to yourself, is that quote from Shakespeare or for the King James Bible?
Or from Aesop. Well, I know, but that was gonna be my punchline, so that's a good word if you wanna play Scrabble. You know, words with friends, Aesop. But I don't think they can take names. That's right.
Otherwise, Shaq would be a great, a great name.
I need a letter with a Q, but without a U.
Yeah, well, imagine being able to end a word with a Q. That'd be awesome. Shaniqua.
That's a good U. Yeah, that's right. So in light of the King James Version's 400th anniversary, so you have the 1611, now 2011, there's all kinds of Bible stuff in here. And so it's only apropos, it's only fit, it's only suitable, it's only fitting that we have this quiz.
And Steve has not looked at this. I'd like to have your word ahead of time.
That you haven't looked at the answers. It's been certified by one of those CPA companies.
Uh-huh, uh-huh. You know, one of the big four, yes. Yes, wasn't that, I think that was in Johnny Carson or something, Tonight Show years ago, they do that. I'm not sure. And so here's what happens. Shakespeare, Aesop, or King James, which of the following phrases are from the King James Bible?
Okay. Okay, and so we're gonna try to do this in a Christian comedic form. Is Jeff Foxworthy, is he a Christian comedian? He is not a Christian. And some question whether he's a comedian. Oh, yes. I guess I wish there were funny Christians out there, funny Christian comedians, but you know what I think we'll do, Steve?
Why don't we just cancel the sermon series in First Corinthians and in First Timothy? And we just have some comedy. You know, we need money for that new building down there. Ba-da-da-da-da. Yeah, that's a bad plan.
Okay, there is a method to my madness, number one. Shakespeare, Aesop, or King James?
There's a method to my madness. Okay. Okay, which one do you think it is? There's a method, go ahead and ask the question. There's a method to my madness. Yeah, go ahead. That's the phrase.
Ask the question. Is it from Shakespeare, Aesop, or the King James Bible? I think that was Balaam.
No, that, I'm gonna say. That, see, now that is funny.
That's why we're doing this, and that's why I'm asking the questions, because even though I'm more theologically astute than Steve, Steve is faster with his tongue and with his wit.
Yeah, which is a problem. I'm gonna say that that is definitely not King James, and I'm gonna go with Shakespeare. Okay, you are right.
$500 to Steve's account. Hope he tithes off of it.
I'd just like to know where that money's coming from.
Polonius, Hamlet, though this be madness, yet there is a method in it.
Polonius? Yeah, that's what it says. Speaker, wasn't she Speaker of the House of Polonius?
Yeah, and they were gonna get rid of her, but she actually made it back, she rebounded. She flies around a lot, though, I heard. Yeah, that's true. Okay, so that's good. So far, so good. Which of the following phrases are from the King James Bible?
Number two, love is strong as death. Love is as strong as death.
Love is as strong as death. I'm gonna say. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love is as strong as death. Boy, Shakespeare. Ooh, very close.
King James? Song of Solomon. Love is as strong as death, chapter eight, verses six. Well, I have to say, when I was reading the King James,.
Back in the Mormon church and stuff like that, my parents taped together my Song of Solomon. I was not permitted to read it. Remember back in the Puritan day,.
I don't know why they did this. This was a very stupid thing. If the couple, young man and young woman, were courting and they wanted to spend some more time together, they could actually sleep in the same bed together, but they were bundled up.
At least the boy was. He was bundled up in this big burlap bag and they sewed him shut. The only thing that was exposed was his head and he couldn't get out, and so then he was allowed to sleep next to his loved one.
And this was a reward somehow.
I mean, what are people thinking? So anyway, love is as strong as death. So, number three. I think you're gonna get this one. Shakespeare, Aesop, or King James on No Compromise Radio. In the twinkling of an eye.
Oh, well, I'd go for King James. Okay, good.
It's interesting, when we think of that passage about the Lord's return in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, I would always think as fast as you could blink your eye. I'm blinking my eyes right now. As fast as you could wink.
But it's more as fast as your retina can accept the speed of light type of thing.
Did you know that? No, that would be an interesting translation. As fast as your retina can receive.
Well, that's why they were known for more of their poetic structure, the superfluity of naughtiness.
Can we call that the New Avendroth Standard, NAS?
Oh, wait, that's already taken. Oh, New Avendroth Standard, that's exactly right. Avendroth, but he doesn't set the standard in anything. That was Dick Lucas about the New American Standard. The Americans don't set the standard in anything.
That's quite funny. A plague on both your houses, number four. Oh, yeah, that's Shakespeare. Okay, Romeo and Juliet. Boy, that wasn't very loving.
Well, you know, Shakespeare, he had a superb superfluidity of naughtiness.
Number five, gave up the ghost. King James. Yeah, there you go, John 9, to give up the ghost. What's that mean? Die. I thought that was... Move out of a haunted house. Harboring Casper, and the feds come, and you have to give up the ghost.
Yeah, yeah, I saw that on a Scooby-Doo episode. Spooky world.
Okay, today on No Compromise Radio, we're going through Shakespeare, Aesop, or King James. This is a quiz phone. That was a shout out to Gracie. That, I think that was. These are taken from Verily, Verily, the King James 400 Years of Influence and Beauty by John Sweeney.
That's where this comes from. John Sweeney, yeah. I think he wrote a book about some other historical figures. I'm pretty sure he didn't. No, I think I just got it, yeah. They sent it to No Compromise for free.
That was nice of him. Yeah, that was very nice of him. It's nice of them, it's nice of them. Okay, we turn not older with years, but newer every day. That's Shakespeare. I don't know why this is put here, because it says Shakespeare, Aesop, or King James, and then it's really not good advertising.
It's a lie. That's Emily Dickinson. It should be Shakespeare, Dickinson, Aesop, or King James. That's not fair at all. I don't think that's fair at all. That's a push. Number seven, the wisdom of Solomon.
The wisdom of Solomon. Well, I guess I'm gonna go King James.
Yeah, I think that was the wisdom of Solomon, Jesus said, and all his wisdom displayed or arrayed would still not be as cool looking as the flowers.
That's the end of our standard. There's no reason I would say Shakespeare, and that seems like a gimme. Okay, that's a gimme.
That's a layup, brother. That's the two-inch putt. I cannot believe, this is gonna be taped later, so I don't know who wins, but right now, as of today, the Celtics have gotten run out of town, as it were, by the Le Bon Company, and they seem to be the front runners now.
I just hope Miami didn't win. I'm just rooting solidly against them. No offense, LeBron, if you're in town.
No offense. Okay, now, this is one from King Shakespeare, King James, or King LeBron? You tell me. As pure as the driven snow.
I'm gonna go with Shakespeare.
You are exactly right. Shakespeare, as white as the driven snow, from the winter's tale, and black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow.
Now, what I'm waiting for is an Aesop. I know, okay. I mean, it's
All right, well, let's go. We're nine minutes in. Let's see, today, we're talking about Bible knowledge, Bible trivia, where the Bible becomes trivia, part two. Because, you know, when you warned me about this.
Ahead of time, I spent a lot of time studying Aesop's fables, preparing for this. I know, I gave you three weeks for that,.
And I'm not sure you got it all done. Okay, here. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. King James. Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Aesop.
See, that sounds a lot like a proverb, though, so,.
You know. That is basically the interpretation of the proverb. So, exactly right.
So close. Abraham Lincoln, Emily Dickson. Dickinson.
Whatever. I actually think that is a proverb, Steve, but we just don't have our resources here.
Where's our crack staff when we need them? I don't know, I think they took the day off or something.
I think we should have probably taken the day off. We should have probably taken the day off. Hey, it's a great day to go golfing. Welcome to No Compromised Golf Tournament. Maybe we could just have a... No Compromised Golf Tournament.
You know what, that's exactly right. We could have little golf balls that are white with a bunch of faux blood splattered all over them. Yeah, no compromise. We could say no-co. Yeah. Hit at this spot for extra far hitting.
Wow, you're like a golf expert or something for extra far hitting.
Now I've got the smoker's cough going. Ah, R .C. Sproul, Gershner, James Boyce, James Montgomery Boyce. This is No Compromised Radio today. We're testing your Bible knowledge through Steve. We're going to go to number 10 now, O Ye of Little Faith.
Oh, that's King James. Okay, very good. That's a refrain from Jesus. I would say that you should study that if you're listening today. Why would Jesus say over and over and over, O ye of little faith?
And that's a ye there too. That's just not a, that's not a you, that's a ye. That's a y 'all. Okay, number 11, A Cloud of Witnesses. Now this preaches. Yeah, King James. Okay, and what was going on there with The Cloud of Witnesses?
Aren't they up there watching us now doing the radio show saying, go, Steve, go, go, Steve, go. We've got spirit. Yes, we do.
We've got spirit. How about you? Yeah, I don't think witnesses is meant in quite that way. I think it's actually referring to The Watchtower.
Oh, well, see, you know what? I didn't really know that. I've been reading the NAS for too long, I guess. What is the writer of Hebrews saying? He's saying that there is a great cloud of witnesses just after he talks about Hebrews chapter 11.
And there was a great cloud of witnesses there starting back with, I believe, Abel and working our way through Abraham and Sarah and all these have walked by faith. They have had faith in something that they haven't seen.
And then we have this cloud of witnesses that spurs us on and then we fix our eyes on Christ. Okay, any other comments about that? No. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything, number 12.
This is not Aesop. This is not King James. This is not Shakespeare. This is not Emily Dickinson. This is not LeBron James. Well, see, Jack Webb?
One out of 12. Roger, you got that. How did you figure that out? Mark Twain. Close. Yeah, that was very close. Okay, we're working our way. I mean, much closer than the King James or Shakespeare. It's so unfair.
Life is not fair. When our kids say, you know, oh, that's not fair, then the other one's quick chime in. Aesop? Quickly chime in. Quick chime in, yes. Grimm's fairy tales. Grimm, all right, what do we have here?
If you go to number 13, it says, in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Shakespeare. Martin Luther King, Jr., who, by the way, had the moral equivalence view of the atonement, and you're so Sinian in heart, and had the wrong view of soteriology.
Other than that, a pretty good theologian. Yeah, that's right. Other than some heretical views.
Allegedly. Number 14, the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Let me think. King James. It's interesting, when Jesus was talking to the disciples there in the garden, you know what? I can't find a place, Steve, where Jesus said the disciples, pray for me.
Now, he did say pray, and maybe the inference was, pray for me at this difficult hour, but Jesus never said to anyone, as far as I know, please intercede for me, pray for me, beseech. Maybe he asked his dad when he was growing up, you know, please pray for me, but not recorded in the scriptures that we have.
Well, let me ask you a question. Did he ever call for a Holy Spirit-filled revival?
Well, this was before tents were made, but according to the Passion of the Christ movie, along with the tables with four legs that Jesus knew would be a hit one day, tent pegs were going to be developed soon.
He knew it would be a hit one day.
Wow, some anachronistic. Did you see the Passion of the Christ? You know, is this true confession time? This is.
I bought it, but I haven't watched it. Oh, well, Jesus is growing up. There's a flashback, and it's a series of flashbacks throughout the movie, and he's in his father's carpentry shop, and he is there with his happy face on, and he's making things, and so he was making, actually, a table, and his mother, and he sat down at the table without the chair, just kind of using his quads and his hams to sit in this invisible chair, and his mother said, you know, stop it, knock it off.
You know, that's never gonna sell, and he said something like, believe me, it's gonna catch on one day, this table to sit at, because, you know, they normally recline. Wow, prophetic. How prophetic. Okay, here we have the next one.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. Yeah, she's true. George Bernard. George Bernard Shakespeare. Yeah. Well, I don't know if the people listening today are having fun, but remember that one lady wrote, and she said, do you know, it makes me feel good to hear you laugh.
It makes me feel good to hear me laugh, too.
This is my birthday today, and so I think I get to do whatever I want. You say it's your birthday. Okay, pop culture here. Redo. Redux. Number 15, when a thing is funny, oh, I just said that. Number 16.
Seek and ye shall find. King James. Seek and ye shall find, that's Matthew. The King James. Type it on the internet, listeners, today. MacArthur rap, and you'll get a King James rap, and then you'll get a Little Ducks rap.
Bible, King James.
Number 17, go and do thou likewise. Yeah, King James. That is for certain. Number 17 is from Luke 10, so now we go to number 18. God helps those who help themselves. Benjamin Franklin. You are exactly right.
Richard's Poor Almanac, 1757. Yeah. Tell us a little bit about that. We have to preach some. Steve, why is that so horrible? Why is that so ungodly? Why is that just so Benjamin Franklin?
Well, God helps those who help themselves. That is an inverted view of grace. That makes grace dependent on man. You know, God looks down somehow, and says, oh, Steve's tightening his belt. He's, you know, buckling up.
He's getting ready. I think I'll give him some help. No, no, no, that's not grace. That's works.
Can you imagine God looking down on the earth, seeing the Pharisees, the scribes, the lawyers, the Herodians, Pontius Pilate, and say, you know, my son's down there, and he is proclaiming the truth, and those men, those leaders, they're helping themselves just a little bit, and so therefore I can, I'm now able to help them.
What's the difference between that slogan and a rough or rude Arminianism? Very little. Steve. Very little. This is not a controversial show. If you want smooth water downwards,.
This show isn't for you. And you might possibly, you know, I just look at Romans chapter five, and listen to verse six. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly, for the ungodly.
It goes on to talk about how, I mean, basically the idea is that we're helpless, that we cannot do anything for ourselves, and so this idea that we did do something for ourselves, and in that event, that's what caused God to somehow respond to us.
That's bogus.
Steve, I have a new contemporary English translation here, Ephesians two. And when you were helping yourselves in trespasses and sins, and when she once walked. That's Ephesians two? Yeah. That's excellent.
That's exactly right. Among whom we also lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind. See, I don't think that works here, so.
Helping ourselves as opposed to dead, right? Just help yourself.
Okay, we're here talking about this, what of one of these phrases is from the King James Bible? And we are up to number 19 out of 25. We're gonna have to hurry up here if we're gonna get these done. No one is useless in this world.
Who lightens the burden of another. Well, that's definitely not the King James Bible, so I'm gonna have to go with. Charles Dickens. Yeah, he was gonna be next up, because it didn't really sound like Shakespeare.
Yeah, and here, number 20 is from Dickens as well. Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old and sit under it, under the shade of it. Figs will hit you in the head. Number 21, by the way, is a folk saying, we don't know the source, so I'll just say it anyway.
What goes around comes around. I think that sounds more Hindu. That's karma. Voodoo? I was gonna say Buddhism. Why did you say voodoo? Because you interrupted. You know, all I can say is. He was trying to be nice, but I interrupted.
Instant karma's gonna get you. See the pop culture that bleeds through the radio as you listen to this show? That one goes out to Jack down in Connecticut. Right there, Jack, you know who I'm talking to.
You know, Jack and Deborah down there, they like to listen too, so I'm glad they do.
And you've got an ingrown toenail that's being.
Yes, I'm getting, the Lord is moving me now, and I'm getting an aura, kind of a feeling that there's somebody out there with an ingrown toenail. And if you. Okay, number 22, the weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Speaking of Hindu. Yeah, Gandhi. Okay. What else did Gandhi say? Shakespeare, Gandhi. Gandhi said something else too. It was something from the Sermon on the Mount, but I'm not exactly sure.
All right, we finally get to the one that's been missing the whole time, in Shakespeare, Aesop, and King James. The one that's finally missing, Steve. This is 24? It's 23. It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
This is where we get the idiom sour grapes.
It is easy to despise what you cannot get, King James.
Well, this is one that we haven't gotten, so it says Shakespeare, Aesop, or King James, and it's Aesop fables, can you imagine? No way, seriously. It is the foxes and the grapes. Foxes cannot reach the grapes, he desperately wants, and says the grapes are sour anyway.
See, I can't have something, so they're bad anyway. Go right ahead. Sorry. All right, these next two are gonna be super easy. There's no new thing under the sun. Yeah, that's King James. It's Solomon.
I think that's pretty true. When you look at the world today, there may be new technology, but the way humans respond to it, there's nothing new.
Nothing. Just repackaged, et cetera, but nothing new. Lastly, but not leastly.
Nice. Don't count your chickens before they hatch. Yeah. What's that one from?
That would be from, let me see. Aesop's fables.
Well, I trust that this has been very un-edifying for our listeners today.
Extremely un-edifying. Maybe we could call this un-edifying theater.
Let's talk the last two minutes, Steve, about why we like the King James Bible. We don't think it's the only Bible. We don't read it from the pulpit here, but I wouldn't be afraid to read it. What do you like about the King James Version?
People really are familiar with it. I mean, it really has impacted the culture. So when you start reading from it, people recognize it. So I think it's got that going for it. There's a certain poetic elegance, I was gonna say, in the King James.
I think NAS sometimes is not poetical enough. Steve, do you like this part about it? I like it that it translates the second person, plural, properly, ye. So you don't have to say, well, you, is he talking to all the disciples or is he talking just to Peter?
But when he says ye, then we know.
I love that about the King James. Yeah, I wish the more modern ones would use the word use. You know, so that we'd know.
Use, use. That's not E-W-E-S, is it? Y-O-U-S, what's it called? Yeah, that's Archie Bunker translation. All I use. I'm sure people use the all in the family Bible studies, too, to teach morality.
Eat it? Any other reasons why you like the King James Bible?
You know, I mean, I have my reasons for not liking it and I'm trying to think what other reasons I would like it. Stood the test of time. Yeah, I mean, certainly that's true, yeah. I mean, I think it can get really confusing because of the ancientness of the language.
You know, even the original NAS that carried over with the thous, the 1978 NAS or 77, that was difficult when you read John 17.
Yeah, I was thinking about John 17, too. Yeah, I can't even imagine that in the King James. That must be really.
The thous and the these. You know, it is more godly if you pray with thous and these, though.
You know, you're going to laugh, but that's how we prayed in Mormonism. You are kidding me. Seriously, I mean, if you didn't do that, thou were not very spiritual.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. No Compromise Radio. I shall pray for thee.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I have a burning in me bosom. In mine bosom. Oh, okay.
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