Jesus is the Word of God. Revelation 19:13, “And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.” Jesus is the inspired Word of God made incarnate (flesh). Dr. John R. Rice (1895-1980) used to say that Jesus and the Bible are twins—Jesus is the Living Word, the Bible is the Written Word. We just read in John 1:1-13 and verse 14 that THE WORD became flesh (incarnate) and we beheld His glory AS OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF THE FATHER!!! The Bible could not be any plainer that Jesus is the incarnate Word of God.
The Bible teaches that all of the Godhead embodied the Lord Jesus Christ. Colossians 2:9, “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” We read in John 1:1 that THE WORD WAS GOD! That means the Word is God! I don't claim to understand it all, because I don't, and neither do you. Jesus is the Word of God, that is His name! Psalms 138:2, “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.” Philippians 2:9-11, “Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Those Bible passages are very interesting. One thing is very clear, God highly esteems the Word of God, even exalting it above His name. That means the Word of God ought not be tampered with!
The Wickedness Of Promoting Corrupt Seed
Brother Lester Roloff (1914-1982) had these wise words to say:“The Word of God is our only hope—that's our only hope! This has been the generation of translations and abominations, and perversions, of the Word of God! It's been a long time; now when the Revised Standard Version came out, I stood against it before I knew what it was, because the wrong crowd heard of that, and the wrong crowd received it, and I knew it got too much publicity to be right! And I knew if the newspapers publicized something, it had to be wrong! And so I knew that the American people and a lot of American preachers—they welcomed it into their house before they knew it was a rattlesnake!” —Brother Lester Roloff, a needful quote from the MP3 sermon titled, “'THE LIVING BIBLE' EXPOSED!”Also, please listen to Brother Roloff in this sermon excerpt I titled: 'The King James Version Is All We Need!' If you'd like to hear the complete sermon, it is called: 'The Book That Makes The Difference!' Brother Roloff used to get invited regularly to Bob Jones University (BJU) in the 1970's. In fact, BJU gave Brother Roloff an honorary doctorate's degree for his incredible outreach ministry to tens of thousands of troubled youth across America. The ministry's phone rang off the hook, but there simply wasn't enough resources to help everyone at the Roloff Homes. That is a sign of the wicked times that we are living in today. I'd call it “surviving” more than “living“ today. These are perilous times.
The Apostasy At Bob Jones University
It is sad and unfortunate that BJU today is apostate, promoting multiple corrupt Bible versions, confusing and corrupting everyone. BJU is more interested in music, ping pong, having fun, and earning a piece of paper that will land them a job as a graduate, but truth means nothing to the Bob Jones crowd today. All of BJU's female alumni that I have met wear sexy pants! Is this what fundamentalism has deteriorated to in America? No, because it is NOT fundamentalism, it is worldliness and of the Devil. The Harvest Baptist Church on Guam is a disgrace. I have a right to my opinion, and I can't stand their cultish attitude at Harvest, playing favorites and kicking out anybody who doesn't fit in with their stuck-up crowd of snobs. Harvest Baptist Church on Guam is the definition of shame!Dr. Bob Jones Sr. would be ashamed and shut down BJU if he were alive today. I am confident of that fact, just like I KNOW Pastor Jack Hyles would definitely close the doors of Hyles-Anderson College (since they have denied the inspiration of the King James Bible since 2008). I am not trying to be mean or unkind to anyone, I am simply telling THE TRUTH. It really does matter what we believe as Christians. If God wanted us to search through 15 different Bible revisions for truth, then He would have told us so! In sharp contrast to having multiple Bible versions, the Lord Himself taught in Matthew 4:4b that “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” If we are to live by 'EVERY WORD' of God, then we need an EVERY WORD BIBLE. Clearly, hundreds of English Bible versions CANNOT all be God's Word, nor even TWO for that matter, because God only authored ONE BOOK!
“The church is a means to an end—not a means in itself. Whenever the church becomes a means in itself it ceases to function according to the divine will. Some churches are nothing more or less than social clubs.” —Dr. Bob Jones Sr., “Comments On Here And Hereafter,” page 128; Bob Jones University Press Inc., 1942
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