Living Hope Fellowship Church

GOD’S ONLY WORD

Training Material

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

GODS ONLY WORD

Preface

King James Version Bible

          Revelation 22:18-19 says, “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”

GODS ONLY WORD

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

          Revelation 22:18-19 says, “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” 

           Now beloved, I’m letting you know that there is a conspiracy against mankind straight out of the pits of hell.  It has been brought to divert the instructions on how to get to heaven by the shed blood of Jesus Christ.  If I were to write a letter of warning to my children, it would be on many things.  It would be about how to live this life in perfection, in love, and in edifying one another. It would be about helping one another and making heaven your home.  If someone came along and diverted or perverted the letter or the writings that I sent to my children, I would be fiercely angry.

          If you sent a word or warning to your children and somebody come along and watered it down, or perverted it, or changed it to read some other way where they would read the message and be turned away from the truth, and then end up perishing, you’d be fiercely angry at them.  Wouldn’t you?  So would I, and so is God, at the church world today. 

          Do you know why, beloved?  It is because they are listening, and reading, and quoting as God’s Word that which is NOT God’s Word.  I’m talking about the revised, so called versions of the Bible.  They are not versions of the Bible.  They are perversions of the Bible.  They are not godly.  They are not inspired of the Holy Ghost.  If God wanted His Word changed He would have done it.  He made this declaration in prayer one time.  This greatly shook me as I began to realize that when you doctor the truth it turns it into a lie. 

          It doesn’t make the truth easier to understand by changing it into a lie.  It is worse yet to make it where it will read like a person wants it to read.  This is what the modern so-called translators and interpreters of God’s Holy Word have done.   In the beginning, the King James Version Bible was translated out of the original text and manuscripts.  The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek.  Fifty men made up a council to translate the King James Version Bible and they did not get to compare notes until they had completely translated it.  They found their notes were identical, because they prayerfully asked for the translation into the English tongue from the original tongues of those manuscripts of God’s Holy Word.  It was Holy Ghost written and Holy Ghost translated. 

          Today men have interpreted and perverted God’s truth into editions or so called versions of God’s Word to make it easier to understand.  The problem is that in translating their interpretation, they’ve perverted God’s truth and watered it down.  In the Bible book of Revelation it says whenever somebody adds to God’s Word that He will add plagues to them.  He will send the plagues written in God’s Word, which are terrible.  If any man shall take away from God’s Word, “. . . God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” 

          This includes anybody who was saved and then tried to say, Well, I’ll make God’s Word easier to understand so the rest of the people can understand it.  They are perverting God’s Word by changing it, and their name then will be taken out of the book of life.  If a person who is born again and saved begins to tamper with God’s Word, God says He will take their name OUT of the Book of Life.

          When a person tampers with the truth and the holiness of God’s Word, he brings a curse upon himself that can destroy him and those who will read and believe these other translations. 

          Look in Proverbs, Chapter 30.  It says in Verse 5-6, “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.  Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”  You will go to hell for lying unless you repent, because it says in Revelation 21:8, “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. . . .”

          When you mess around with God’s Word, whatever the reasoning, you are found a liar.  This is because it will not read the same, and it will pervert the truth, turning the truth of God into a lie, as Romans mentions.  You are cursed from that day on until you repent.  The person reading it must repent and go back to the King James Version Bible, which is straight from the manuscripts of God’s Holy written Word. 

          In Deuteronomy 4:2 God speaks to us: “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.”

          Do you see, beloved, that these are very dangerous things to be messing around with?  The best thing to do with ungodly versions of the Bible is to destroy them so that no one will read them and be cursed from the day that they read it and begin to believe a lie. 

          2 Thessalonians 2:12 says, “That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”  It’s a terrible and a desperate thing.  Deuteronomy 12:32 says, “What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.”

          The Word of God is perfect and without flaw or error.  If you don’t understand it the first time, read it again, and again, and again until you get a grasp of the things of God.  These things are spiritually discerned.  John 4:24 says, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”  God’s Word must be interpreted by His Spirit.  God’s Spirit wrote it, and He can bring it back to your remembrance. 

          Many people read other versions to try to understand God’s truth.  How can you understand the truth better by reading a lying version?  God wants His people sanctified, holy, and clean from the doctrines of devils that have come forth. 

          One of the main things you’ll see omitted many times other than whole scriptures, which is blasphemy, is the blood of Jesus Christ and things that concern sacrifice. 

          Colossians 1:14 says, “In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:”  If the blood of Jesus is omitted from the version you are reading, you cannot read that version and have redemption through his blood or forgiveness of your sins thereby.  In Hebrews 9:22 it says, “. . . and without shedding of blood is no remission.”

          If a Bible does not speak of the blood of Jesus, or speak of the virgin birth of Christ, then it is a perversion against God’s truth.  God’s true Word says that he was born of a virgin.  That means that the Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary and she was with child “. . . of the Holy Ghost.”  (See Matthew 1:18).  This means that God Almighty sitting on the throne in heaven is Jesus Christ’s Father. 

          If you say that Mary was a young unmarried woman, and leave out the word virgin, then it leaves the door open that Jesus could have been conceived by a human father, making him a son of a man rather than the Son of God.  The Bible declares that if you do not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, then you are not saved!  (See John 3:16-18.)  You must believe that He is the Son of God, and be forgiven of your sins.  Then you are saved and washed.  Romans, Chapter 10, tells us this.  Anything that would bring doubt or make a possible option for this is a perversion.  These other Bibles do just that, and they are foolishness.  They are profanity, and they’ve changed the truth of God into a lie. 

          You must turn from this thing.  If I spoke to you, would you have two or three other people speaking at the same time, trying to say the same thing?  When somebody is reading the King James Version Bible with another Bible version on their lap also, it would be just like that.  If something doesn’t read the same, then it’s not the same. 

          Any Bible version that leaves out the blood atonement of Jesus Christ will turn you away from heaven.  It will command that your name be taken out of the book of life, which is your salvation experience.  This is according to Revelation 22:19.  This is not a difficult message, though some would say it is hard.  Some have been estranged from their first love and the doctrine of Jesus Christ! 

          Some say, Well, I was saved through one of those versions.  God is the one who saves and sets free.  The truth that comes out of the King James Version Bible reads correctly for a godly walk in Christ Jesus.  Anything that says otherwise brings another Jesus.  Paul said in Galatians 1:8, “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”  In Verse 9 he says it again, “. . . let him be accursed.”

          These other versions of God’s Word, these perversions, preach another Jesus.  They preach another salvation.  They preach another way, to make things easier.  Let me tell you that Satan’s way is easier.  Hell’s way is easier.  Matthew 7:13 says, “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:”  Jesus added in Verse 14, “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”  

          There are far more perversions of God’s truth than there are versions of the truth.  Jesus said in John 14:6, “. . . I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”  In Ephesians 4:5 the King James Version Bible says there is, “One Lord, one faith, one baptism.”

          Beloved, there is only one Jesus who can save you, set you free, and make your life clean before God.  His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Son of the Most High God.  The only way you can get saved is by His shed blood and what He has done on the cruel cross of Calvary.  You must know that He has risen from the dead, and that He is sitting at the right hand of God the Father. 

          Don’t turn away from the truth.  Don’t believe a lie and be damned.  God wants you to destroy that perversion you’ve been reading and get into the truth.       

          Some say that they can’t understand the King James Version Bible.  When Jesus departed to go to the Father, He sent another Comforter, whose name is the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth.  He will teach us all things that Jesus has said unto us by His word, and he will bring all things back to our remembrance, whatsoever He has said to us.  (See John 14:26 and John 16:13.) 

          This is a spiritual walk, not an intellectual walk.  Faith doesn’t come out of the mind.  Faith doesn’t come out of interpretation; faith comes from the heart.  A godly interpretation is spiritual discernment by the Holy Ghost to someone who is reading God’s Word, and has faith and an upright walk with God.  Today beloved, harden not your heart.   

          Father, I ask you to let people know by your Spirit that what they are reading, if it’s not the King James Version Bible, is a perversion of the truth.  God, let every soul be saved and set free and begin to read your truth.  Lord, we praise you, and we believe you for the victory, in the name of Jesus.  Amen. 

This sermon refers to English language Bibles.  We are not familiar with Bibles in other languages except for the Spanish Reina-Valera 1960 Bible which we are told is very close to the King James Version. 

 CONTACT INFORMATION:

Pastor Kevin Badgley

LIVING HOPE FELLOWSHIP, P. O. BOX 111, GRAND CHAIN, IL  62941

CHURCH / FAX (618) 634-2541

E-mail  livinghope@hughes,net

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These condensed Bible studies have been published to help new Christians in their new walk with the Lord.  Kevin Badgley, the author, is the pastor of Living Hope Fellowship Church.

This is a Living Hope Fellowship publication.