Having the Right Mindset

Good morning, everyone. It's great to be here. We love this church. And uh after 30 years of of pastoring, we turned the church over to my son. We felt like that was the will of God. And we moved to St. Louis, as you do. And uh God has always been very, very specific with me. And this time he said, "You're just going to have to follow." And so for months, the only thing we knew for sure was we were going to be at ABC. It's it's the thing God told us.

And that's a that's a incredible uh step of faith at times to to move to a new place. But we found such a a home here. And we knew I knew immediately that this is where God wanted us to be. And so, um, I'm I'm just excited to see how God's going to work through that and all the wonderful things. But I give honor to the Bishop this morning and this beautiful church, the pastor. Uh, what a privilege it is to be here. and to my wife who's joined me again working together again.

She can't get enough of working together with me. And after 30 years, we've now working together global missions. And so God has worked out and just woven a web of of of uh his provision in our lives. And we're so thankful for that. Amen. Well, um I'm going to tell you some things so you get used to kind of who I am. My mother was a German Jew and she was um her prayer life was a sounded more militant than most people's. She knew how to pray.

Oh, she knew how to pray. And I remember being a little little like be maybe kindergarten age and in my little bedroom there was two uh single beds and an aisle that down the middle that led up to the window. Well, I was woken up in the middle of the night. She was rebuking at the top of her voice a tornado that was coming down the street. Now, her the curtains were spread back and she was ordering that thing to turn around and it did. It did.

It hit the neighbor's house across the street and they weren't at school for a while, but it didn't hit our house. I guess that's all that matters. And so, you can imagine how confused I was. I'm I'm going someplace. I haven't forgotten my subject. Uh, you imagine how confused I was when I went to first grade and they said, "It's our we're going to practice for a tornado. Go out and bow down in the hallways." Like, this is not what you do. This is not how you handle a tornado.

This I know this is not how these people don't know very much, do they? And I I I told my sister go these people don't know very much. Went home told these people don't know very much, do they? They just don't know what to do. They should have let me go to the window window and pray. And so, um, years later, we were doing a children's camp at Buckeye Lake, and Ohio has, um, I what I believe is the oldest church camp in the United States.

It was a church camp in 1880s. I mean, it was and and I'm sure you've been there. And it's it's it's nice and old. It's 40ome buildings. It's it's it's in a little community. So the the streets around the tabernacle within, you know, 20 feet of the tabernacle are public. Um and and so um we're we're there and this storm is coming through and it's from Cleveland to Cincinnati, just red, just solid red all the way down through there. And I w we were gathering all of the the kids, I think it was 8, nine, 10 year olds.

We were gathering all the kids in the old tabernacle. And I can hear the staff members talking in front of them. Oh, this is the the most dangerous place in the world. We're all going to get killed. What are we doing in here? And the kids are starting to get scared and it made me angry. And I just blurted out, "If God can't protect us here, he can't protect us anywhere." So, I pulled out my phone expecting to see a miracle. I pulled up the the radar and I was watching from Cleveland to Cincinnati.

The storm comes through. It opens up over top the campground and comes right back together. We didn't lose a single shingle, which in itself is a miracle. I don't know if there was ever a rainstorm. He didn't lose a single, but it's just, you know, it is what and and and and God just did this miracle. Now, across the street, you know, 50 feet from the campground, you know, a telephone pole was leaned against the house, there was trees down, there was debris everywhere, but the campground wasn't touched, and that's all I was concerned about.

So, I went back. Um the district secretary, brother Kramer, walked in and I I look at this. You you've got to see this on the the radar. You've got to see how it opens up. And this guy walks in right behind me and hears the whole story. And his response to me was, "Well, it didn't miss us by much." And I just wanted to point him in the eyes. just wanted to point him in the eyes. I did and I I didn't know what else to say except I didn't pray for it to miss us by much.

I just asked for it to miss us. And sometimes when we look at things, our perspective matters. Our perspective matters. And uh we're going to put up some slides here uh if if that all that went through. If not, we're good. But the first slide is the difference is having the right mindset. The difference between divine providence and what's now become known as the hermeneutics of suspicion. And this is what's being taught in our world today. And it impacts us. It it really impacts the way we think.

We have to be careful. We have to call it out in our minds so that we don't think like that. Um, I have a good friend. I I really care a lot about him. And um, we were talking about July 4th and of course um, the signing of the Declaration of Independence um, has some negative connotations depending on how you look at that. And I'm not trying to offend anyone. Slavery is wrong. There's just it's evil. It's wrong. It's there's there's nothing good about that. But this is a current event being the 250th anniversary.

I think I think we can think about this because I think it was somewhere around 23 signers of the Declaration of Independence were slave owners, you know. So there's two ways of looking at this. one in the hermeneutics of suspicion there's there's it's called the fallacy of composition where because there were so many slave owners then uh I I think the more clear term is the legal term where we talk about the fruit of the poison tree that there's something wrong because of the the founders here were were slave owners and it's true they her.

And I don't know how we process that, but here's how I at least look at the story because I think of it as divine providence. And that is, think of it, God who hated evil, who hated slavery, convinced 23 slave owners to put their name on a document that said all men are created equal. There was a divine flow in that. Then less than a hundred years later, those words in that document that those 23 slaveholders, if I meant right about that number, if that they signed now becomes the legal cry to end slavery.

And when it ended here in the United States, it largely ended around the world. God had a plan. how we look at it. It it's what matters here is do we see God's hand in things? Do we see God's hand in it? Um in a Middle Eastern country, several years ago now, we announced that we're going to do this this secret baptism after like when the moon comes out in the middle of the night and at this lake. And the word got out and hundreds of people showed up to be baptized.

And the military found out in that country and went and slaughtered everyone in the water. And a few months later, the United States hit Iraq. And we can wonder, is it about the oil? Is it about power? Is it about this? Is it about that? But where's God in all of this? What's he doing? Because when we start looking at what he's doing, then we start saying, "Hey, wait. He's got this. How How many knows he's got this? He He has this. This is going to be okay.

He can protect his word. I I don't have to. If he won't, it would be useless for me, too. I mean, really, honestly. So, when we look at his word and and we're going to look at some some texts today that, you know, we can say, well, men changed this here, or maybe this isn't the best translation or this or that and the other. And I've chosen some fun ones to do today because uh it's it's a summer Sunday morning and I want to help everybody to stay awake.

But we look at this concept. If we look at and oh wait a minute here, this verse is wrong and that's verse is wrong. I want to tell you there is a plan out there. There was a man that came to our church. He had I'm not going to go the whole story, but he'd been out of the country and he had discovered the oneness of God. and I tried to work with him, but he clearly rejected truth at at some point while he was with us and and demonic spirit came over him.

It was it was something. But every once in a while, I'll go on in Facebook and what he'll put on there is this. They're taking scriptures out of the Bible. I know because I've had the conversation with him that he knows why, but it's sedition. It's sedition. They're trying to divide. He's trying to pull people to himself is what it really boils down to. He's trying to get a platform. And if we're not careful, we'll grab on to some emotions there that aren't ours to have.

And if we'll just say, "God's got this. He's got this. He's going to protect his word. I don't have to I don't have to defend a translation. I don't have to do this. I don't have to do God's got this. He knows what he's doing. And despite of all the things that's happened to come against the his word, he's managed to work it through. When they wouldn't let didn't want the common people to see the Bible, he allowed them to develop a printing press. That's God.

The first thing they printed was the Bible and the common language. This this is what we have to under. He's going to take care of things. IT'S GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT. He's going to follow it through. King James started it and then he tried to kill the people who was making the translation and they had to go underground, but they survived. And God's word just keeps surviving. And then every once in a while, a little boy in English will in Israel will throw a rock into a tunnel and find a whole another set of scrolls because he's got this and he's woven a thread.

I think sometimes we we look at things and I um I think we're getting close to the end because I think there's things in this word of God that we're experiencing today that we didn't experience 20 years ago, 30 years ago, 40 years ago. And I don't think it's because we're smarter. I think it's actually going the other way. But I don't think it's we're smarter. I think God is opening up some stuff in the Bible because it would not have been the right time for us to know 10 years ago or 20 years ago or 30 years ago.

He's showing us things today that's going to position his church. And so just fasten your seat belt. Let God be God. Let God be God. So let's look at some of these things. Um, we don't want to go to the harmonious ex of suspicion. We want to go to the divine providence. Um, Isaiah 9:6. This I know this is small on the screens, but I do have it on some of it on the sheets if you'd like the copy of the screens. But this idea of English translation and and the Jewish people um they don't like a lot of our translations.

And it's because there's a heavy bias toward three gods is the way the Jews would put it. There's a heavy bias toward three gods. You can have one god or you can have three gods. biggest threat to Judaism today is not the Arabs. It's a doctrine of three. And so this is the way they would look at it. And so they look at the bias. But if you look here at Isaiah 9:6, which is one of our favorite passages, for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.

The government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called wonderful counselor the mighty God the everlasting father prince of peace. I had no idea it would be quite that small. But we look at at this for a child has been born does. This is what the kabad version. Now the kabad is like um the Jewish outreach pro department. There's a kabad house here in in in uh St. Louis. For unto us a child, a son is given to us, and authority is upon his shoulder.

And the wondrous advisor, the mighty God, the everlasting father, called his name prince of peace. There's word choices. Is one more accurate than another? They both declare Jesus. They both declare that there's a prince of peace coming. Amen. But the Jews say this is this is more accurate in the way that we would look at things. And so we we look at the scriptures and we say what is what is happening here in in all of these things? Because we don't it's a different culture. It's a different place.

Let's go over here to 1 John 56 through8. And this is one of the biggest Uh this this lesson's about textual criticism and this is about one of the biggest probably most talked about change between uh like the King James entirely left out verse 7 but they didn't leave it out. Um what really happened was it wasn't in the Greek translations. So, uh, Aramas, if I pronounced that correctly, um, there's a whole story about how he said, uh, if you can find me a translation with it in it, and they went and found the Latin translation, which was translated from the Greek to the Latin, and and wasn't, um, wasn't what we would consider to be a quality translation.

But he put it in here. He put later uh in his life, he put in verse seven with this footnote that said it didn't exist in the original text. And so when you go over to the new text, um if you, for example, the New American Standard Bible, 1995, it has things in brackets, it has these added phrases. There's several of them through the Bible. I um because I'm that boring person, I went through every one of them at one point. my life. And most of them are non-consequential.

Most of them are just phrases and some of the phrases kind of make sense. And you know, it's it's not a big doctrinal issue. But this one here is interesting to me because it leaves out there are three that bear record in heaven. The father, the word, and the holy ghost. And these three are one. And this is um boy we we we can use the scripture and we can use we can identify with it. We and also we can say you know it's it's a strong trinitarian statement um from their perspective.

And so it's just left out in the new translations. Why? Because it wasn't found in the originals in the oldest forms that we have. So, is that is that them taking out the word of God or is them is that the new translations per pres preserving the word of God? And we don't know all of what's happened, what's transpired. We we're kind of dependent on what was recorded in history. But this is the kind of things that's happening in the scripture is some of the newer translations don't go back to that.

Everybody has understand. So, so that's that's kind of um um there's there's all kinds of them. I'll I'll mention a couple of them. How be it this kind goeth forth by much prayer and fasting? Uh some translations take out that entire phrase. Some of them say take out just the and fasting part. But to be honest with you, don't these kind go out by much prayer and fasting? It's kind of true. And so it's not most of it is not that. And so why I'm saying it in this way is they've tried to change the scripture and in the preponderance of everything they could have changed.

I mean there is another New Testament of Jesus Christ. Um we live near Kirtland if you didn't know what that's all about. The the Mormons had a one of their early temples was in Kirtland, Ohio. Um until persecution came and so uh and they moved out to Utah. But I live right close to that. They have this other test. Somebody just wrote a whole New Testament. God said, "No, he kept his hand." They might have changed a few things here and there, but he kept his hand on this thing.

He didn't let him go crazy with it. Whether we whether we say it should be there or shouldn't be there, he didn't let him go crazy with it. It's it's amazing how God has kept his divine providence and hand on his word that it goes from generation to generation to generation. And if we keep the right attitude, what I find is it interesting. It sparks my interest. It causes me to study more when I look at the nuances, when I look at the differences. Let's go to another popular scripture.

Matthew 28:19. How many love this scripture? I always tell people and our church back home is largely first generation. So I'm always pumping these types of things. You never read 19 without reading 18 and all all of the things. And but you look here and we we see this this idea of one, you know, I grew up seeing first of all that um you know, baptizing them in the name. Everybody baptizing them in the name. If you go to the next slide, uh we'll we'll see that real quick.

Um baptizing them in the name. What's the name of the father? Father's not a name. It doesn't say baptizing them in the names, father, son, and holy ghost. It says baptizing them in the name of the father. What's the name of the father? Well, those those Jews, they they didn't like like these other people who weren't following their traditions. These Jews that were kind of said, "No, we're just going to follow the scriptures." And those Jews wanted to say the name of God. So they started putting YHWH in without the vow sounds in the scripture so people wouldn't accidentally say the name of God.

But I have an acquaintance whose father was Orthodox rabbi and he's gone he went to the Vatican. He went to several places and found I think he's more than six sources now where he found in the original text the vows for Yahweh. It's Yhovah is the correct way in Hebrew to pronounce it. What is the name of God? It's Jesus. Jesus is in in the Greek. Jesus in Spanish. It's it's what is the name of God? What is the name of the son? What is the name of the Holy Spirit?

We see that and we understand that it's singular and it goes forward. But there's other nuances about this. If you'll go back to that previous pre uh or into the to the next side and then the one that says Matthew 28:189 comparison Jesus came and spake unto them saying all power is given unto me in heaven and earth go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the father and the son of the holy ghost butus's translation was different nowus was an interesting guy because he had the original text.

He had the original documents and his version of Matthew 28:19 just said, "Go and make disciples of all nations in my name, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you." Doesn't mention baptism at all. Well, that's an interesting development. Now, after the council of Nika, uus's translations of Matthew 28:19 included the full version of the father, son, and the holy ghost. But for some reason in a period of time he left that completely out and he had the original documents. So what does that mean?

It's kind of fascinating, isn't it? And so um we we look and and see why would this be? Now, I've always had a problem with this scripture because it seems to be that there were plenty of times for Jesus to describe a threeperson deity. This is this is my rationale in all of this. Show us the father and we'll be satisfied. Well, see, you Jews have it wrong. There's actually three of us. He could have said that. but he didn't. And it always seems odd to me, particularly knowing that John 5:7 wasn't in there, because there's really only two verses in the scripture that lists the three, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

And so, it's 1 John 5:7 and Matthew 28:19. And it's just I like Jesus, what are you why would you say it this way? Because it's it's not necessarily apples to apples. I remember in kindergarten, you know, you're circling apple, oranges, and bananas as fruit, you know, and they throw in a baseball or, you know, some other thing in there and you had to circle what things were like. And then you're, you know, then you got to the third grade and they told you that tomatoes are fruits and not vegetables and it just threw off your whole economic academic progress.

But we look here and see, and I want to reference back to Acts 2:38 for a minute. We're going to come back to Matthew 28:19 in a second because using these scriptures that we know, I want to talk to you about the nuances. So, always read verse 37. What's so that's the question in verse 37. What must we do to be saved? I don't know of any theological debate against that statement that that's what that means is they're asking what they must do to be saved.

And so Peter responds repent. Now here's I'm going to give you two nuances here in this scripture and it's easier I think when it's a familiar scripture for you. Repent means about faith. In western thinking we think about action. In eastern thinking, they think about how and this is the one of the main difficulties of translating the Bible. So, it's not um the example I I use is you tell your teenager to go upstairs and clean his room. He goes up, slams the door, throw some things under the bed, throw some things in the closet.

It looks a little bit straight and we assume that it got something done. But in Eastern culture, that wouldn't fly because it wasn't what you did. It was how you did it that mattered. Does that make sense? It's how you did it. It's how you performed that. I I listened to one song and and it seems a little disrespectful to me. If we sing it here, I apologize. Bless me. Bless me. Bless me. Bless me. Bless me. Bless me. Well, the Jewish blessing means you're asking God to come on bended knees and offer you a gift.

It's how he comes, not what he does. Do are we really saying, you know, I I think that causes us to pause a little bit, causes us to think about the word a little bit when we say, Lord, I I need you to bless me. I I'm not but I'm not asking you to come on bended knees. I'm not asking you to offer there. There's a whole another level of respect when you think about the how the action is done and not the what action is done.

So here in this scripture, the what action and in our western thinking and I've preached this and I'll preach it again and say these ex exact same words. So I'm not turn your back to sin. That's the western philosophy of thinking about this. But that wouldn't been the Hebrew understanding of this. The the Jewish understanding of this is not just to turn your back, but where your eyes are looking. You see, Lot's wife had her back to Sodom as she ran, but she had her eyes on Sodom.

And that was the problem. That's why I like that old song, turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full into his wonderful face, and the things of this world shall go strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace. Turn your eyes. Quit trying to turn your back on the world. You see, some of us are strong enough for a while that we could turn our back on the sins and never look at Jesus for a period of time. It's never enough just to turn your back.

We're not just trying to leave sin. We're trying to get our eyes fixed on Jesus. We're trying to get our eyes fixed on him. And this is the this is some of what's lost in the translation is it's not just enough to get your back to the thing. You got to get your eyes on Jesus. And if you get your eyes on Jesus, the next two things in the scripture are going to happen. We We're trying to sometimes dunk people in the tank that don't have their eyes on Jesus.

And I know what that's like. I've pastored for 30 years. Somebody wants to get baptized. Oh, I have baptismal stories. I have baptismal stories. My wife came to me one Sunday afternoon said, "Do you know what happened today?" I said, 'I'm afraid to ask. We've we built a new building and it's a gym for our school, so it doesn't have water in it uh in that portion of it. So, the baptismal at the time was still in the old sanctuary. And this we we pick up um homeless people.

We just pick up people everywhere Sunday morning. We have no idea who they are. They just bring them to church and we baptize them. And lives have been changed. It's It's amazing what God has done. But this guy came and he I I come out in the lobby and he is wasted. He's just he's out of his mind wasted. And I'm like, "Oh, we're going to get you some food here. We're going to get you some food. We're going to we're going to make this happen.

We're going to get you some food." And uh but after service he's like, "Man, somebody he's" He's laying down on the sidewalk outside of our doors saying somebody's going to have to call 911. And so our our dear outreach guy, he doesn't know. No, he doesn't know the answer. No. And he walked over and he said, "We'll call 911, but first we would like to baptize you. And I promise you when you come out of the water, you'll be sober. Well, um he was high and he just came down the steps in the baptismal tank just wearing his underwear and men are lined up and some my wife said, "Do you know we we baptize a naked man today?

But they, my men were undeterred. They put him under. He came up sober without withdrawal. Got his life together. God gave him a job. Gave him a house. I believe in this thing called baptism. But if you can get your eyes on Jesus, things will change in your life. Everybody say, "Amen." And so it says, "Be baptized." And and it starts answering some very uh good questions. Who should be baptized? People who want to join the church. That's not what it says. Because we don't baptize into the church.

We baptize into Christ. Amen. If you've been the church, you need to consider getting rebaptized again into Christ because that's what matters. Yes. Everybody say, "Amen." Amen. If you had a miracle happen to you when you got baptized, say, "Yeah." Amen. It's lifech changing. It's lifechanging. I don't know how many people I've baptized that were drunk or high and came up sober. Go down with cancer and come up healed. It's life-changing when you do it in his name. So, who should be baptized? Every one of you.

How should you be baptized? In the name of the person who went to the grave for you. In the name of Jesus Christ, the name of the propitiator. the guy who actually died on the cross for you. We're buried with him in baptism. Amen. That's the reason why many churches don't want to teach that baptism is a part of salvation because of Acts 4:12. Neither is there salvation in any other for there's none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. And so if you're not bapti so if baptism is a part of salvation, it has to be done in Jesus name.

So they spend all of this effort trying to separate it from baptism. It's really hard to do. I don't let him do it very easily. I had a man one day. He I was working on my house and he stopped by to see it and and and uh my wife knows that if an neighbor comes by um there's going to be a Bible study before it's over. So I had him sitting around the the picnic table and I opened it up. He said, "I could have quoted Acts 2:38 when I before I got here today, but I never saw these questions because the next question is, why do you get baptized in Jesus' name?" And that is for the remission of sins.

And this is my second thing I want to talk about because the new translations say forgiveness of sins. That is correct. From what I can study, it's it's it's it's correct. It kind of means the same thing. But what I think for me is it loses the payment aspect. I'm baptized in his name because when I'm baptized in the name, the payment he made on the cross gets applied to my life in the waters of baptism. It wasn't a judge standing there like and I I feel like Christianity's kind of gone this way where we think like there's a judge standing there and and we come up and he just says dismissed.

I'm like wait a minute there's evidence of my sin. It wasn't dismissed for lack of evidence. It was dismissed because somebody paid my price. And so when you look at word nuance, there might be word that's accurate, but there might be one that's more accurate. Does that make sense? When we talk about the textual aspects of this, I think remissions is more access because it brings back the payment aspect. It reintroduces back and then you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Now, let's go ma back to Matthew chapter 28:19 because um here's here's the thing.

There is a a a Bible called the complete Jewish Bible. And what they did was the original text was largely sometimes written in Hebrew translated to Greek. And so what they did was they took the original Greek text and directly translated it back to uh Hebrew and and that's a much more direct translation. The two languages haven't changed. So there's a like ours continually changing meanings on words and all of this stuff. And and so it pulls into this. But here's what Matthew 28:19 says in the Hebrew English Bible.

Immersing them into the reality of the father, the son, and the ruakadesh. immersing them into the reality of the father, the son, and the ruach hakadesh. So the reason why I brought up Acts 238 is because remissions of sins, forgiveness is a correct word, but there's one that's more complete. Can ruakadesh be translated to the Holy Spirit? It can, but it's not complete. The Jews don't have a concept for the Holy Spirit. God is a spirit and he is holy, but they don't have a term for the Holy Spirit.

I don't know what to say. The term that's used in the New in the New Testament is this bruhakadesh, which means the spirit of holiness, the spirit of separation, the spirit of setting apart. Come out from among them and be separate, sayeth the Lord. Be holy for I am holy. What Jesus was saying here is he wasn't trying to identify three parts of God. He said you have to know who the father is. You have to know who the son is. And you have to know this culture of separation.

You have to know the culture. You you it's not just enough to know Jesus. It's not just enough. You have to know the culture of separation. You have to get this. And when I saw that and I was like that probably makes more sense to me than any other explanation I have is because he's not just saying three parts of God. He's really saying you've got to know this culture. You've got to come out from among them. And for the Jews, they understand that. They live that.

They understand this the distinctiveness of God's people. We can't look like the world. We can't act like the world. We're going to have to behave differently. There's going to be something different about the way we conduct ourselves. People ought to be able to tell who we are. Not just in the way we look, but in the way we conduct ourselves, the way we act. The spirit of God that comes with us whenever we go to the whether we're in the grocery store, in the hospital, or in Goodwill, the spirit of GOD SHOULD GO WITH US.

AMEN. SO, we look at this marvelous. I said, "Wait a minute here. There's more to this." When we start peeling back the layers, I said, "Wait a minute. I want to know more." Somebody told me one time, he said, "Jesus didn't preach holiness." Yeah, he did. Just because you don't know the Jewish references he was making doesn't mean the Jews didn't didn't get it. Somebody told me one time, they said, you know, look, why did God forsake Jesus on the cross? And I said, well, that's not really what happened.

He was making a reference to a song. God didn't forsake him, but he was feeling the barrier that sin puts between us and God. There's more to the story. And so we look and say, "Wait a minute here. I I I know that uh sometimes people are at a disadvantage when they talk to us. I had a Baptist pastor call me one day and I was bringing up this Acts 238 and he says, "Well, you don't think it's for the remission of sins? That whirly word means because of the remission of sins." And he said, "Sir, you're at a disadvantage.

He was highly educated, but I was seeing it in front of my computer. And that probably puts probably most people at a disadvantage in my world. And so I I looked it up and I said, "Well, listen here. Here's how it works. A Greek word means the same thing every time. It's ice. Ei means ice." And so I started going through scriptures that had the word ice with him in it. And I said, "Can you me can't translate this to because of? Can you translate this scripture to because of?

Can you translate this scripture to because of?" He hung up. But I gave him something to think about because we go into the word of God. It's precious. He's preserved. He's kept. I wonder if we couldn't just lift our hands and voices and thank him for his word today. Oh, heavenly father, we thank you, God. We thank you for your word. We thank you, Lord, that you preserved it, that you protected it. We thank you Lord that it's so multi-dimensional layered that we can just continue to learn and learn and learn and it just keeps bringing us back with greater truths and better understandings and over and over again we find your truth in your word.

Amen. Did somebody along the way change a word or two? Yeah. But in the end, God's in charge. He's in charge. I love it. Amen. God bless you. Thank you for being here today and enjoyed this. Amen.