We’ve probably taught this message 40 times from different perspectives over the years, or something along those lines.  It really is a message that radically changed my life.  I think it was probably back in 1976 that we might have taught it here for the first time.  We entitled it “The Doctrine of Jesus.”  We, in teaching it out of Mark, Chapter 4, made reference to the very fact that the sure foundation on which we stand, and that we have our eternal hope in, is nothing less than the integrity of God and His Word; amen?  This Word is truth.  This Word is truth.  It doesn’t contain the truth, it is truth, praise God!  This Word is to be what we build our foundation on.  Jesus, in one of His parables in the Scriptures, says make sure that as we’re understanding this foundation, as we’re studying to show ourselves approved, workmen; amen?  What does He say?  He says we are to be workmen that divide, truly, this Word, right down the middle.  Cut right down the middle, no compromising.  You can’t add to, Deuteronomy 4 says, or diminish from these words that have been put into our hearts and into our minds.  Workmen that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth, praise God!

So, in these days we know the thing the enemy is going to be attacking is our foundation.  If the foundation erodes the building is coming down; amen?  Many people studying the Bible today are looking for new revelations and deeper understanding.  I think it would behoove us, in this hour, to make sure that our foundation is sure; amen?  Jesus is admonishing us in this parable.  In fact, He says in this parable, “If you don’t get the message of this parable, how can you understand any parables?”  How can you understand any of these truths that Jesus is communicating to the church while at the same time keeping the world ignorant?  So, we put our confidence in this Word.

Now we know, today, that when we talk about the infallibility of the Word, the inerrancy of the Word, many of these different truths that we hope in, we know and understand that we’re talking about the original manuscripts.  There are people today that will fight you tooth and nail that the King James Version is the only acceptable version that exists.  We know this Bible that we love, and most of us, until recent years, have memorized it, and it is a great accurate, literal interpretation.  The fact that it’s in the King James‑era Elizabethan English is not a problem as long as the literal message is being communicated.  This King James version is not inerrant, there are errors in here.  It’s not inerrant, but the fact is, it is reliable; amen?

When I use the word reliable, I’m talking about “reliable to communicate the truths that God had spoken through the original manuscripts.”  That will cause us to understand and be able to accept, through this gospel, this translation, the inerrant original message of holy men of God speaking as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.  This is accurate and will bring to us all we need to know to establish our redemption; amen?  To come into that place that God intends for us, our sonship, our reconciliation to the Father, the bold access that is that great gift of God to us that allows us, through the blood of Jesus, to approach the very throne room of God.  All of these things that are necessary for us to know and understand.  These are reliable.  This is bringing to you and me all that’s necessary for life in Christ Jesus.  I want to say that because in the hour we’re coming into, the one thing that is being attacked more than anything else at this time is the Word of God; amen?