WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.120 This is an enormous topic, and it might almost sound more like a lecture, like Nathan said, than actually a sermon tonight. 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:11.580 I definitely think that we have much to be encouraged from and much to learn, though. 00:00:12.620 --> 00:00:19.460 I do love history, but I do think that every believer should make an effort to know church history, particularly. 00:00:20.080 --> 00:00:24.820 There's much to learn, much to be encouraged by, and much to be exposed. 00:00:24.820 --> 00:00:29.300 It actually is something I've been trying to go through with some guys I'm discipling this year. 00:00:29.300 --> 00:00:32.000 And I think they've found some really good benefit in it. 00:00:34.140 --> 00:00:36.340 But there's going to be a lot of questions that come up tonight. 00:00:36.420 --> 00:00:38.760 We definitely don't have time to cover everything. 00:00:39.460 --> 00:00:44.539 But we might have to take a little stretch about halfway through this and keep going on. 00:00:44.579 --> 00:00:51.820 I'm going to really try to finish before 10, but if I don't, you know, you can come or go, you know, like whatever you need to say. 00:00:51.820 --> 00:00:54.780 Just roll with it tonight. 00:00:54.780 --> 00:01:04.299 But I want us to start out by saying that God's Word is a gift of grace to us. 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:07.420 We need to learn to treasure the Word. 00:01:08.299 --> 00:01:12.200 I think that we're just so used to having 10 copies of it laying around our house, 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:19.740 and we forget that even today there are nations and languages out there that don't have the Word written in their tongue at all. 00:01:19.739 --> 00:01:22.599 And it's just a blessing to have this in front of us. 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:29.839 In theology, there's two kinds of revelation that we talk about. 00:01:29.919 --> 00:01:32.560 There's something that we call general revelation, 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:42.539 which is basically this idea of like how creation testifies that there is a God and that He is real and that He has made this. 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:45.179 And that's like what we call general revelation. 00:01:45.399 --> 00:01:46.899 It talks about that in Romans 1. 00:01:46.900 --> 00:01:51.180 It's enough to tell us that God is because He made all these things. 00:01:52.300 --> 00:01:58.300 But the sad part is because of sin, general revelation is not enough to save somebody. 00:01:59.300 --> 00:02:01.020 We need specific revelation. 00:02:01.960 --> 00:02:06.180 And specific revelation is what you're holding in your hand, or hopefully have. 00:02:06.219 --> 00:02:08.020 If you don't have it in your hand, you have it somewhere else. 00:02:08.640 --> 00:02:14.300 It specifically tells us who God is and who we are, and we must understand those things. 00:02:14.300 --> 00:02:22.840 It's God's direct Word to us, and it's for the salvation of our souls so that we can know God and glorify Him again. 00:02:23.620 --> 00:02:29.900 But that's why you can go to tribes all over the world in the most remote places, and they understand that there's a God. 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:31.700 They're like, yeah, obviously. 00:02:31.699 --> 00:02:43.239 I try to do some stuff with the Cherokee Indians up in North Carolina on the reservation, and I've learned a little bit about their religion, their ancient religion. 00:02:44.060 --> 00:02:50.079 And they're like, yeah, there's a Creator who made all of this, and He used to be revered and respected and honored. 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:57.760 And so, like, wherever we go, like, there's general revelation, but we need specific revelation. 00:02:57.920 --> 00:02:59.080 That's what the Bible is. 00:02:59.720 --> 00:03:03.460 But the whole point is, like, God didn't have to do this. 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:07.420 He could have just left us to ourselves, and we could have just been destroyed. 00:03:07.540 --> 00:03:14.980 But He chose to give us His Word, so we've got to learn to see the Bible as grace, like it's something that we didn't deserve that God gave to us. 00:03:14.979 --> 00:03:18.019 This is a quote by Martin Luther. 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:19.739 It says, 00:03:19.819 --> 00:03:24.239 Oh, how great and glorious a thing it is to have before one the Word of God. 00:03:25.079 --> 00:03:27.759 With that we may at all times feel joyous and secure. 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:34.120 We need never be in want of consolation, for we see before us in all its brightness the pure and right way. 00:03:35.399 --> 00:03:39.179 He who loses the sight of the Word of God falls into despair. 00:03:39.959 --> 00:03:42.039 The voice of heaven no longer sustains Him. 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:49.579 He falls on the disorderly tendency of His heart and world vanity, which lead Him to His own destruction. 00:03:51.419 --> 00:03:52.919 Some of us know that to be true. 00:03:53.739 --> 00:04:00.579 But the Bible is a gift of grace, and the Bible has a lot to say about itself, which is pretty cool. 00:04:01.359 --> 00:04:07.560 The Bible proves itself without any kind of outside attention at all. 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:09.479 It, like, says that it is the Word of God. 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:15.500 And this is some things that I want to have in my life and I want you to have in your life. 00:04:16.159 --> 00:04:23.899 But I want us to hunger after the Word of God, like to desire it, to want it, to want to know it, and to understand it and believe it. 00:04:24.899 --> 00:04:25.699 Job said, 00:04:26.539 --> 00:04:28.899 I have not departed from the command of His lips. 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.759 I have treasured the word of His mouth more than my necessary food. 00:04:33.699 --> 00:04:34.740 That's awesome. 00:04:34.740 --> 00:04:39.340 I'll move on down to the third one. 00:04:39.740 --> 00:04:41.040 Oh, how I love your law. 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:42.860 It is my meditation all the day. 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:46.420 If you want to look at one psalm that just specifically talks about the Scripture, 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:52.439 Psalm 119 is the largest one in the book, in the whole Bible, actually, the largest chapter in the whole Bible. 00:04:52.960 --> 00:04:56.400 It specifically talks about the Word of God and the law of God. 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:00.220 So this is really good to go back and read for all this. 00:05:00.220 --> 00:05:04.280 Psalm 119, same psalm of all these. 00:05:04.440 --> 00:05:04.720 It says, 00:05:05.460 --> 00:05:13.000 I have not turned aside from your ordinances for you yourself have taught me how sweet are your words to my taste. 00:05:13.580 --> 00:05:15.420 Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth. 00:05:16.440 --> 00:05:19.760 Read and learn to crave and hunger after God's Word. 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:23.759 Something else about your Bible. 00:05:24.659 --> 00:05:30.060 You need to understand that this didn't just pop up out of the printing machine one day. 00:05:30.159 --> 00:05:38.800 This has been a long process over hundreds and even thousands of years to get the Bible to us. 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:41.060 It's a bloodstained book. 00:05:41.099 --> 00:05:42.819 It's something that Charles Spurgeon said. 00:05:43.300 --> 00:05:45.759 Remember that our Bible is a bloodstained book. 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:48.240 The blood of martyrs is on the Bible. 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:50.219 The blood of translators and confessors. 00:05:51.019 --> 00:05:54.360 The doctrines we preach to you are the doctrines that have been baptized in blood. 00:05:55.459 --> 00:05:59.740 Swords have been drawn to slay the confessors of them. 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:04.639 And there is not a truth which has not been sealed by them at the stake or the block. 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:10.439 So like burning or having to be beheaded at the block. 00:06:11.159 --> 00:06:13.039 Well, they have not been slain by the hundreds. 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:20.960 And so as we begin to kind of talk through this, some things might be hard to hear. 00:06:21.100 --> 00:06:26.160 I understand that, you know, we're going to talk about the Reformation a little bit 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:28.320 and some of the things that happened during the Protestant Reformation, 00:06:29.020 --> 00:06:31.360 specifically the English Reformation. 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:35.080 And there's going to be... 00:06:35.080 --> 00:06:41.600 I'm aware that some of you may be Roman Catholic or know people that are Roman Catholic. 00:06:41.740 --> 00:06:46.199 I have a lot of really close friends that actually are Catholic. 00:06:46.620 --> 00:06:51.639 And I plead with them to understand, like, what the Scripture says about salvation 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:53.460 and about the grace of God. 00:06:53.520 --> 00:06:54.819 So I don't take this lightly. 00:06:54.819 --> 00:06:58.019 So we're going to get to that in a minute. 00:06:58.099 --> 00:07:02.519 But we're going to start in the Old Testament and talk about how we got the Old Testament. 00:07:04.719 --> 00:07:05.800 It's working pretty good. 00:07:07.899 --> 00:07:08.459 All right. 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:17.699 So the background of the Old Testament, written roughly between 1445 B.C. to 424. 00:07:17.699 --> 00:07:19.599 That's an estimation. 00:07:20.539 --> 00:07:22.620 So it's been in the making for a while. 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:30.480 A whole variety of different kind of authors wrote the Old Testament from all the different kinds you see here. 00:07:30.539 --> 00:07:34.120 Prophets, kings, soldiers, poets, shepherds, historians. 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:36.759 So it's not just like one type of God. 00:07:36.860 --> 00:07:41.579 This is many different people from many different walks of life that are writing about the same thing. 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:46.319 Languages, mostly Hebrew, probably some Aramaic mixed in. 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:51.500 Hebrew scribes over the centuries have copied down the Scripture. 00:07:53.459 --> 00:07:55.839 You should really know a lot about Hebrew scribes. 00:07:55.839 --> 00:08:05.639 When they copied down the Old Testament, what they would call Torah or the prophets or the wisdom writings, 00:08:06.579 --> 00:08:11.539 as they copied it, they probably did it like on papyrus or whatever. 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:16.019 But if they ever messed up, like just one little bit, let's just say that he wrote a whole scroll 00:08:16.019 --> 00:08:17.919 when he's copying Isaiah, for instance. 00:08:18.539 --> 00:08:24.240 Even if he was like in the last little crate and he messed it up, like made a bad mark, 00:08:24.299 --> 00:08:25.399 he would throw the whole thing away. 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:27.479 It was like a really serious deal. 00:08:27.620 --> 00:08:33.939 Like they wanted to make sure that what was being transcribed was exactly what was there and nothing less. 00:08:33.940 --> 00:08:41.360 So the canonization of the Old Testament, you know, like a canon is not just talking about a piece of artillery. 00:08:41.500 --> 00:08:46.240 We're talking about an accepted number of books into something. 00:08:46.340 --> 00:08:49.440 Some of them say, yeah, these are a part of what we believe. 00:08:49.540 --> 00:08:51.660 That's like what the canonization is. 00:08:52.660 --> 00:08:53.600 Move to this. 00:08:55.020 --> 00:08:59.320 Josephus Flavius was a first century Jewish historian. 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:03.740 He was captured by the Romans after Jerusalem was destroyed. 00:09:04.640 --> 00:09:06.940 And he eventually became a historian. 00:09:07.100 --> 00:09:12.780 He wrote down a lot of stuff that is really beneficial to us today to understand a little bit more about the context. 00:09:12.920 --> 00:09:13.820 He even wrote about Jesus. 00:09:15.300 --> 00:09:16.500 He wrote about Pilate. 00:09:16.620 --> 00:09:19.280 He wrote about John the Baptist, James, the brother of Jesus. 00:09:19.379 --> 00:09:21.220 He wrote about all these things. 00:09:21.340 --> 00:09:25.300 And he said about Jesus, like, yeah, this guy, something else. 00:09:25.299 --> 00:09:34.579 That's kind of like where he says, paraphrase, he said he did all kind of wonderful miracles and amazed people and could have been the Messiah. 00:09:34.779 --> 00:09:35.039 He doesn't. 00:09:35.139 --> 00:09:35.379 He wasn't. 00:09:35.439 --> 00:09:36.899 I don't think he actually believed that. 00:09:37.019 --> 00:09:38.939 But this was Josephus. 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:42.000 And this is what he wrote about the Old Testament canon. 00:09:42.979 --> 00:09:43.539 All right. 00:09:43.539 --> 00:09:48.979 Now, understanding that this guy had knowledge of things that we probably don't have access to today. 00:09:49.779 --> 00:09:52.059 He had that tradition passed down to him. 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:54.579 He actually was a Pharisee. 00:09:54.580 --> 00:09:55.560 This is what he wrote. 00:09:56.540 --> 00:10:04.960 We have not in a numeral multitude of books among us disagreeing from and contradicting one another like the Greeks have. 00:10:05.060 --> 00:10:08.600 So he's trying to say that the Greeks are not consistent in their literature. 00:10:08.800 --> 00:10:09.520 That's what he's trying to say. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.540 He's trying to say that what we have is exactly what has always been there. 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:20.940 But only 22 books which contain the records of all the past times, which are justly to believe to be divine. 00:10:20.940 --> 00:10:23.580 And of them, five belong to Moses. 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:25.140 That's the first five books. 00:10:25.520 --> 00:10:26.420 That's the Torah. 00:10:26.540 --> 00:10:32.220 Genesis through Genesis, Exodus, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, written by Moses. 00:10:32.920 --> 00:10:36.740 Wrote down on what was done in their times in 13 books. 00:10:36.740 --> 00:10:42.000 The remaining four books contain hymns to God and precepts for conduct of human life. 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.399 So the prophets and the wisdom writings. 00:10:45.560 --> 00:10:51.220 If you look in your table of contents, we have more books than 22. 00:10:51.220 --> 00:10:57.300 That's only because we split them apart a little bit, like 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles. 00:10:58.379 --> 00:11:00.800 We even split Jeremiah and Lamentations. 00:11:01.060 --> 00:11:02.220 So it's the same thing. 00:11:02.940 --> 00:11:05.220 So what is in the... 00:11:05.779 --> 00:11:07.100 I've got to make this distinction. 00:11:08.259 --> 00:11:16.720 What the evangelical or Protestant canon would be is what the Hebrews actually considered to be divine. 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:18.240 And they don't... 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:19.320 There's also the Apocrypha. 00:11:19.460 --> 00:11:25.399 Some of you have heard of the Apocrypha before that's included in a lot of Roman Catholic Bibles. 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:35.680 Well, we don't have those in the Protestant canon because the Hebrews themselves didn't consider them to be inspired by God. 00:11:36.019 --> 00:11:37.620 They're just, like, included in. 00:11:37.620 --> 00:11:45.899 And so what you have, most of us have in our Old Testament is exactly what the Hebrews had in there. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:49.039 So they considered these to be divine and nothing else. 00:11:49.500 --> 00:11:52.740 So we kind of, like, followed that idea. 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:56.720 So the Old Testament manuscripts. 00:11:57.340 --> 00:11:59.259 There was a problem for the longest time. 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:04.960 The oldest complete Hebrew manuscripts we possess are from 900 A.D. 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:06.539 That's bad. 00:12:07.620 --> 00:12:08.560 Why is that bad? 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:14.740 It's because we have tons of prophecies about Christ in the Old Testament, right? 00:12:15.179 --> 00:12:15.720 Tons of them. 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:16.659 Particularly Isaiah. 00:12:16.820 --> 00:12:20.940 Like the huge book that has a ton of prophecies about Christ. 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:27.340 That would be a problem because it would be easy to say they went back and wrote these things way after Christ ever came. 00:12:27.659 --> 00:12:31.799 Just to kind of prove, you know, that He was who He said He was. 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:42.620 So the question is, how could we be so sure of their accurate transmission since before the time of Christ in the first century A.D.? 00:12:42.620 --> 00:12:43.879 And that's a really big question. 00:12:44.839 --> 00:12:46.799 Which leads us to the Dead Sea Scrolls. 00:12:47.500 --> 00:12:48.740 There's actually a picture of them there. 00:12:48.779 --> 00:12:50.539 You can go to Israel and actually see them today. 00:12:50.539 --> 00:12:59.219 It says they were found around 1947 and they contained copies of all the Old Testament except the book of Esther. 00:13:00.019 --> 00:13:02.539 That most date back to 125 B.C. 00:13:02.539 --> 00:13:03.419 That's pretty good. 00:13:03.839 --> 00:13:04.860 That's a long time ago. 00:13:04.860 --> 00:13:12.700 And it was found by a shepherd boy that was kind of looking for a lost sheep up near the Dead Sea in Israel. 00:13:12.860 --> 00:13:15.139 That's why they're called the Dead Sea Scrolls. 00:13:16.259 --> 00:13:20.259 They had been preserved in excellent condition for 1,900 years. 00:13:20.379 --> 00:13:20.980 It's pretty awesome. 00:13:22.019 --> 00:13:23.720 And here's something even cooler. 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:27.759 When they took the Dead Sea Scrolls, okay, they date way back B.C. 00:13:28.460 --> 00:13:35.819 They took those and laid them right beside the ones that we have from A.D., okay, like the ones that are way after that. 00:13:36.620 --> 00:13:37.879 They said the exact same thing. 00:13:38.819 --> 00:13:40.439 So there wasn't any difference. 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:41.159 That's pretty awesome. 00:13:41.860 --> 00:13:46.799 So even the ones that we have from 900 A.D. didn't contradict the ones that were B.C. at all. 00:13:47.179 --> 00:13:53.740 So that just kind of speaks to the testament about the accurate transmission from the Hebrew scribes over the centuries. 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:57.159 They've put down exactly what was there and it hasn't changed at all. 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:00.100 So, really cool. 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:03.779 All right. 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:08.919 Something else I thought I might read to you real fast is something else Joseph said about the scriptures. 00:14:09.500 --> 00:14:10.100 It says, 00:14:10.179 --> 00:14:13.960 We have given practical proof of our reverence for our own scriptures. 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:21.759 For although such long ages now have passed, no one has ventured either to add, to remove, or to alter a syllable. 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:33.559 And in it is an instinct with every Jew from the day of his birth to regard them as decrees of God, to abide by them, and if need be, cheerfully die for them. 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:41.459 Time and again, here now, the sight has been witness of prisoners, enduring tortures, death in every form in the theaters. 00:14:41.839 --> 00:14:47.000 He's talking about like the Roman amphitheaters and Colosseum. 00:14:47.179 --> 00:14:51.919 Colosseum wasn't built yet, but rather than utter a single word against the laws and allied documents. 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:55.500 So, main point, it's a big deal to the Hebrews. 00:14:55.860 --> 00:14:56.059 Okay? 00:14:56.500 --> 00:14:58.120 They weren't going to like mess this up. 00:14:58.179 --> 00:15:03.799 So, you can be sure that like what's there is what God has preserved for thousands of years, like a long time. 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:06.939 So, that's our Old Testament. 00:15:06.940 --> 00:15:10.060 Moving into the New Testament. 00:15:13.780 --> 00:15:14.380 All right. 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:14.960 Background. 00:15:15.880 --> 00:15:17.600 Getting around the first century A.D. 00:15:18.680 --> 00:15:19.280 All right. 00:15:20.420 --> 00:15:22.240 Again, a variety of authors. 00:15:23.140 --> 00:15:27.280 Yeah, fishermen, rabbis, tax collectors, physicians, scholars. 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:37.139 One of the greatest testaments about the Bible compared to a lot of other books, like the Koran or anything like that, 00:15:37.179 --> 00:15:39.639 is that you have a ton of different authors. 00:15:39.860 --> 00:15:46.299 I think it's over 50 different authors that wrote the Bible over a course of a long time, like thousands of years. 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:48.600 And they all tell you the same story. 00:15:49.459 --> 00:15:50.360 That's pretty awesome. 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:51.240 There is a God. 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:52.319 He's holy. 00:15:52.459 --> 00:15:53.519 He takes sin seriously. 00:15:54.379 --> 00:15:55.759 There is a Messiah coming. 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:56.799 The Messiah came. 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:01.819 That's all these guys from all these different backgrounds over a long period of time saying the same thing. 00:16:02.179 --> 00:16:04.519 There is a huge testament to the Bible. 00:16:04.620 --> 00:16:07.519 So, you don't just have one guy writing things down. 00:16:08.539 --> 00:16:11.019 The language is according to Greek and some Aramaic. 00:16:12.379 --> 00:16:14.799 So, you should go find the day. 00:16:17.179 --> 00:16:18.379 Oh, man, I messed that up. 00:16:21.939 --> 00:16:22.600 Backing up. 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:22.899 Sorry. 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:25.399 Oh, man, I'm too still. 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:26.059 This isn't going. 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:29.600 I can't see it. 00:16:30.299 --> 00:16:30.600 Okay. 00:16:30.779 --> 00:16:32.059 Well, I can tell you where it is. 00:16:36.819 --> 00:16:39.019 Oh, well. 00:16:39.899 --> 00:16:40.539 I can tell you where it is. 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:46.339 I had a chart that showed the Bible compared to other ancient documents. 00:16:46.340 --> 00:16:47.280 Okay. 00:16:47.280 --> 00:16:48.139 I'm just going to use one. 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:49.180 I'll tell you all the ones I have there. 00:16:49.259 --> 00:16:49.680 Take you on. 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:52.120 Let's just compare it to, like, Homer's Iliad. 00:16:52.220 --> 00:16:52.440 Okay. 00:16:53.780 --> 00:16:59.480 The earliest copy that we have, we have no original manuscripts from any ancient text. 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:00.259 You shouldn't have that. 00:17:00.899 --> 00:17:02.480 We don't have any originals at all. 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:05.120 They're all destroyed because they're really old. 00:17:05.180 --> 00:17:06.900 They'll just rot and be no more. 00:17:06.900 --> 00:17:17.420 So, there is a time gap between when the originals were written and then the actual copies that we have in our hand today. 00:17:17.420 --> 00:17:27.279 For Homer and the Iliad, I want to say it was around, man, I don't want to get it wrong. 00:17:27.380 --> 00:17:27.800 It doesn't matter. 00:17:27.900 --> 00:17:30.560 I want to say, I think it's around, like, maybe 800 years. 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:35.380 That's a long time gap between the original and the ones that we have today. 00:17:35.380 --> 00:17:41.940 So, people don't have a problem with that, you know, because people try to say, well, the Bible, you don't have any original manuscripts. 00:17:42.820 --> 00:17:47.160 And you're like, well, there's not any original manuscripts from any ancient text. 00:17:47.980 --> 00:17:54.920 And, matter of fact, the Bible has the smallest time gap between the originals and the ones we have today. 00:17:55.660 --> 00:18:01.180 I think the largest manuscript or the only manuscript we have that has the largest time gap is 150 years. 00:18:02.040 --> 00:18:02.800 That's not that bad. 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:09.000 And then a lot of them date, like, just 70 past, like, when the origins were written at all. 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:10.419 So, they have the smallest time gap. 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:18.279 And I think we have somewhere around 5,400 different manuscripts of the New Testament. 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:23.619 Homer's Iliad, remember, almost like an 800-year difference. 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:25.919 We only have 600 manuscripts. 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:35.440 So, the New Testament has more manuscripts in our hands today that dwarf everything else, more than Caesar's histories, more than anything. 00:18:35.620 --> 00:18:39.840 And there's the smallest time gap between the originals and the ones that we have today. 00:18:40.779 --> 00:18:43.720 Some people may say, watch the clock. 00:18:44.360 --> 00:18:45.519 We don't have any of the originals. 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:50.339 So, how can you know that what we have is exactly what they had? 00:18:51.779 --> 00:18:53.000 Because we don't have the originals. 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:54.119 So, it could have gotten messed up. 00:18:55.059 --> 00:18:56.559 Here's an analogy for you. 00:18:57.420 --> 00:19:01.240 Our U.S. Constitution is in a museum in Washington, D.C. 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:02.000 You can go see it. 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.940 I think I saw it when I was in middle school, I think. 00:19:07.579 --> 00:19:13.099 You know, like, everybody's seen the movie where Nicolas Cage steals the Declaration of Independence and stuff. 00:19:13.619 --> 00:19:14.559 It's probably that same museum. 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:21.779 But, let's just say that somehow, like, that building got blown up. 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:22.759 All right? 00:19:23.660 --> 00:19:25.640 And our Constitution was, like, burned. 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:26.880 Like, we don't have it anymore. 00:19:27.339 --> 00:19:28.579 Like, the original is gone. 00:19:28.579 --> 00:19:35.079 Now, when our government, mostly our government doesn't buy by the Constitution anyway, but this may not say. 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:37.339 Maybe they should. 00:19:37.639 --> 00:19:39.359 They're probably saying this is a lot of math. 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:41.059 But, all right, sorry. 00:19:41.199 --> 00:19:41.659 I'm ready to go there. 00:19:42.460 --> 00:19:48.980 But, if that happened, would our government all of a sudden say, man, we don't know what the Constitution says anymore? 00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:52.039 That would be really stupid, wouldn't it? 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:52.899 Why? 00:19:52.899 --> 00:19:57.980 Because, like, we've made copies of the original 1,000, 100 times over, right? 00:19:58.599 --> 00:20:02.500 And so, we have, like, in our hands, none of them date back to 17. 00:20:03.700 --> 00:20:04.039 Uh-oh. 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:04.900 I can't remember. 00:20:05.360 --> 00:20:05.799 Doesn't matter. 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:09.360 None of them date back to that time. 00:20:09.380 --> 00:20:11.339 But, we have tons of copies of the copy. 00:20:11.980 --> 00:20:12.539 Tons of them. 00:20:12.579 --> 00:20:16.500 So, we would never really say, you know, that's not, we can't rely on that. 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:18.180 It's the same thing in the New Testament. 00:20:18.259 --> 00:20:21.700 We have tons of copies of the copy that have been passed down. 00:20:21.700 --> 00:20:24.960 So, we can be sure that, like, what was there is actually what we have. 00:20:26.140 --> 00:20:29.380 So, all right. 00:20:29.980 --> 00:20:36.259 Now, a lot of people have asked me, hey, you know, the church has kept some books out of the Bible. 00:20:36.840 --> 00:20:38.080 That's messed up and wrong. 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:39.500 Not really. 00:20:39.580 --> 00:20:42.240 Not if you're a pastor and you're trying to protect God's truth from heresy. 00:20:42.360 --> 00:20:42.819 It's not. 00:20:42.819 --> 00:20:47.700 So, who decided what stays in and what stays out? 00:20:48.619 --> 00:20:51.819 Well, there was a series of councils that met around this time. 00:20:51.919 --> 00:20:56.460 Like, the defining one was the Council of Carthage in 397 A.D. 00:20:56.460 --> 00:21:03.500 Tons of elders and pastors and bishops from all over North Africa. 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:05.340 At that time, it was still the Roman Empire. 00:21:06.140 --> 00:21:07.980 Came to Carthage to talk about it. 00:21:08.600 --> 00:21:12.559 And this was their criteria for letting a book in or keeping a book out. 00:21:13.779 --> 00:21:14.500 First one. 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:21.019 Whether or not the document was written by an apostle or one in a close association with an apostle. 00:21:21.019 --> 00:21:26.920 So, he was either there or he talked to the guy who was there. 00:21:27.019 --> 00:21:28.220 And it doesn't go beyond that. 00:21:28.879 --> 00:21:31.139 So, you have like Paul who was there. 00:21:31.259 --> 00:21:32.759 Matthew who was there. 00:21:32.879 --> 00:21:33.859 John who was there. 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:37.500 And then you have a guy like Luke who knew Paul. 00:21:37.779 --> 00:21:38.000 Right? 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:40.299 So, that's kind of like how the connection goes. 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:44.920 It's not all kind of information passed down to five or six people. 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:45.639 It's not telephone. 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:46.700 Put it that way. 00:21:46.740 --> 00:21:49.559 It's just like either he was there or he talked to the guy who was there. 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:55.319 Secondly, whether or not the document was recognized as authoritative by the early church. 00:21:56.220 --> 00:22:06.179 At this time, a lot of the guys, by tradition and acceptance, they would know the early church fathers accepted these books. 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:08.460 They were kind of not cool with these. 00:22:08.539 --> 00:22:09.480 They would understand that. 00:22:09.619 --> 00:22:11.480 So, it was not that far away. 00:22:11.539 --> 00:22:15.179 It seems crazy to us today because we weren't living way back then. 00:22:15.180 --> 00:22:20.160 But a lot of that was still around so they would know if it was accepted or not by the earlier church. 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:31.360 Thirdly, whether or not the document was confirmed to the high standards and truths taught already and recognized scripture. 00:22:32.380 --> 00:22:32.620 All right. 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:37.080 So, it would be easy to say we know that John is inspired. 00:22:37.340 --> 00:22:39.080 You know, he walked with Christ. 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:39.700 He was there. 00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:41.039 He saw the resurrected Lord. 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:47.960 So, we know that what is taught here and then also what is taught in the Old Testament teaches us about God. 00:22:48.659 --> 00:22:49.039 All right. 00:22:49.700 --> 00:22:54.180 So, if we just get some random book and it just kind of says, God's cool with sin. 00:22:55.099 --> 00:22:57.279 Jesus didn't die for sin. 00:22:57.599 --> 00:22:59.240 So, God's not holy. 00:22:59.339 --> 00:23:00.339 He's not going to punish sin. 00:23:00.399 --> 00:23:00.980 There's no hell. 00:23:01.099 --> 00:23:01.839 We'd be like, huh. 00:23:02.159 --> 00:23:06.039 That doesn't conform to what we know is already authoritative. 00:23:06.539 --> 00:23:07.819 So, it would be cast out. 00:23:07.819 --> 00:23:11.379 So, this is a really, really good criteria, in my opinion. 00:23:11.899 --> 00:23:14.539 I don't think I can come up with better criteria. 00:23:14.759 --> 00:23:19.659 But that's what you have in your New Testament is what they decided on at this point. 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:27.399 So, obviously, there are certain books that fly around that we reject because they teach wrong things. 00:23:27.539 --> 00:23:28.439 They're not accurate. 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:29.019 They're not true. 00:23:30.019 --> 00:23:32.119 They are all over the place. 00:23:32.439 --> 00:23:33.839 So, let's see. 00:23:33.899 --> 00:23:34.939 Let's move into this next part. 00:23:34.940 --> 00:23:36.200 All right. 00:23:36.259 --> 00:23:39.880 Now, this is what I was talking about a minute ago. 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:43.900 We're going to talk a little bit about the Reformation. 00:23:44.840 --> 00:23:45.100 Okay. 00:23:45.299 --> 00:23:47.799 Now, the Dark Ages are called the Dark Ages for a reason. 00:23:48.380 --> 00:23:50.980 It means that there was just ignorance. 00:23:51.860 --> 00:23:52.980 People were not educated. 00:23:53.220 --> 00:23:59.380 And they were told what they believed, what they were told by the official church at the time. 00:23:59.380 --> 00:24:05.820 And my goal is not to talk a lot about this tonight. 00:24:06.020 --> 00:24:07.820 But it just needs to be mentioned. 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:11.200 The papacy didn't just... 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:13.600 The papacy is the Roman church, the Pope. 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:15.700 It didn't just happen overnight. 00:24:15.800 --> 00:24:16.600 It was kind of a process. 00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:21.560 And for the longest time, though, the church in Rome was a really good organization, actually. 00:24:21.780 --> 00:24:24.860 They were really instrumental in combating heresies. 00:24:24.859 --> 00:24:30.079 St. Augustine and a lot of earlier church fathers were really big in the church of Rome. 00:24:30.219 --> 00:24:35.379 And they actually upheld the Scripture and the Gospel of Grace. 00:24:35.479 --> 00:24:36.740 You can go back and read their writings. 00:24:37.819 --> 00:24:40.379 They preached the same gospel that we believe today. 00:24:41.139 --> 00:24:46.359 But over time, monarchs began to kind of like convert to Christianity, you know. 00:24:47.059 --> 00:24:50.919 And a lot of times they would enforce Christianity on their people. 00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:52.479 This is what we're going to do. 00:24:52.479 --> 00:24:54.399 We're not going to worship these pagan gods anymore. 00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:56.140 And this is what we're going to do. 00:24:56.780 --> 00:25:04.440 So over time, monarchs began to kind of place certain bishops in a position that would favor them. 00:25:05.100 --> 00:25:11.180 And so just slowly there was this transition of the church coming under control of the state. 00:25:11.860 --> 00:25:12.160 Okay? 00:25:12.340 --> 00:25:14.100 Which was never meant to be that way. 00:25:14.800 --> 00:25:16.200 It's always more of a... 00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:17.400 The church is its own entity. 00:25:17.600 --> 00:25:18.940 It's not ever a part of the state. 00:25:20.040 --> 00:25:23.280 And so that's why empires rise and fall, but the church remains. 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:25.500 And it will remain. 00:25:25.580 --> 00:25:27.240 It will be the only thing left one day. 00:25:28.180 --> 00:25:32.880 But he has something called like a hierarchy in the Roman church. 00:25:33.780 --> 00:25:35.300 The pope, cardinals, and bishops. 00:25:36.340 --> 00:25:39.900 Only their occupations could honor God at this time. 00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:42.620 They taught that every other occupation was secular. 00:25:42.840 --> 00:25:44.820 So you couldn't be a teacher. 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:46.720 You couldn't be a farmer. 00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:51.240 And you couldn't glorify God and the work you did because it was secular, not sacred. 00:25:53.259 --> 00:25:59.720 The pope at this time, still a lot today, hasn't changed too much. 00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:02.160 He is the sole interpreter of scripture. 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:08.920 If he says this is what scripture teaches, then this is what you have to believe in a lot of ways. 00:26:08.980 --> 00:26:10.799 He's like the official dictator over scripture. 00:26:11.600 --> 00:26:13.200 The pope actually means the vicar. 00:26:13.299 --> 00:26:14.620 He's called the vicar of Christ. 00:26:14.619 --> 00:26:18.619 It means the person who stands in the place of Christ. 00:26:19.339 --> 00:26:24.179 Saying that he represents Christ on the earth in a way is what he's trying to say. 00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:31.859 And so the church in Rome itself carried equal authority with the Bible on the same level. 00:26:32.899 --> 00:26:33.239 All right. 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:37.679 They said that you have to have this in order to know what's right and what's not. 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:42.660 Last week I talked about justification a little bit. 00:26:43.100 --> 00:26:45.700 And we'll kind of revisit it here. 00:26:46.080 --> 00:26:49.320 But in Roman theology, and even today, this hasn't changed. 00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:57.620 That is, it's a, it's a works-based salvation saying that I have to believe the right thing and I have to do the right things. 00:26:57.619 --> 00:27:04.439 And at this time, particularly, how salvation would be achieved was through merit. 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:09.459 You had to achieve a certain amount of merit in order to inherit eternal life. 00:27:10.219 --> 00:27:14.599 And the number one way you would do this is through the work of penance. 00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:15.559 All right. 00:27:15.619 --> 00:27:18.719 Now, penance is a sacrament in the Roman church. 00:27:18.859 --> 00:27:21.939 And it's more like self-rebasement and devotion. 00:27:22.639 --> 00:27:28.740 This performed externally is like a work you do to show your sorrow or your remorse over sin that you've committed. 00:27:29.379 --> 00:27:31.659 So this is the Roman idea of penance. 00:27:32.740 --> 00:27:35.359 So where does God's grace come in? 00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:40.839 God's grace was something that kind of gave you a little bit of help, but it didn't see the work through. 00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:44.679 And you had to kind of keep up with the grace of God. 00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:49.740 Like, if God gave you a little bit of grace, you needed to kind of make the most out of it and kind of go on to the next stage. 00:27:49.779 --> 00:27:51.220 And then he might give you a little more grace. 00:27:51.299 --> 00:27:55.720 And it was this process of becoming righteous. 00:27:56.000 --> 00:28:04.059 So, as I said last week, a paraphrase of what was taught was God helps those who help themselves. 00:28:04.059 --> 00:28:08.039 It's an easy way to help understand their theology when it comes to salvation. 00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:10.740 That you have to do for your own. 00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:12.480 And if you do, God will help you a little bit. 00:28:13.700 --> 00:28:27.539 So, in their system, God would only justify the ungodly when the ungodly had made themselves godly. 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:27.920 Okay? 00:28:28.019 --> 00:28:30.240 So they had to, like, get to that point where they were godly. 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:35.940 And then only then would it be right for God to justify them and to give them salvation. 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:39.440 So it was a works-based salvation. 00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:41.460 And it still is today. 00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:49.500 What we read in Scripture in Romans 4 that it is not about works, but faith alone. 00:28:50.140 --> 00:28:56.359 It says that God justifies the ungodly because of the work of Christ and what Christ did on the cross. 00:28:56.359 --> 00:29:07.659 So, in regard to salvation, you should know this, though, that the Roman church taught, actually, that no one in this life could actually achieve salvation. 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:12.279 They said that no one could ever gain enough merit in this life to have eternal life. 00:29:12.279 --> 00:29:19.920 So, instead of despairing, they kind of put up a safety net for that, which was purgatory. 00:29:20.099 --> 00:29:29.359 It's a place that you could go to after death to be purified by hundreds and even thousands of years of torture and pain. 00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:37.439 And only then we got to a certain point where you were pure enough, cleansed enough, that you actually could go to heaven. 00:29:37.719 --> 00:29:40.659 So, which is, it's not in Scripture anywhere. 00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:44.479 This is what a lot of the Reformers at the time were like, where are you guys getting this? 00:29:44.500 --> 00:29:45.299 This is just not here. 00:29:46.099 --> 00:29:55.419 It was something they made up to kind of, like, that backed up the works-based salvation thing because you would despair if you thought, well, man, there's no way I can do it in this life. 00:29:55.420 --> 00:29:58.700 If that's true, then what am I doing even trying? 00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:02.220 So, purgatory was your safety net in a way. 00:30:04.120 --> 00:30:12.160 Indulgences, pilgrimages, and relics were all things that you could do to cut down your time in purgatory. 00:30:14.340 --> 00:30:19.880 Pilgrimages would be like going to Rome or going to Jerusalem, going to a place where a saint is buried. 00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:28.240 Indulgences were an official written statement from Rome that absolved you of sin. 00:30:28.340 --> 00:30:30.820 It could be like a lot of your sin or it could be all your sin. 00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:39.920 And indulgences could be obtained by a financial donation or by a service performed, like going on a crusade. 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:45.020 It would tell a lot of the crusaders, if you go on this crusade, you come back and you survive. 00:30:45.140 --> 00:30:47.400 It will give you an indulgence and you'll be absolved of all your sin. 00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:50.120 And this is what you even learn in school. 00:30:50.259 --> 00:30:55.180 Dr. May of North Georgia talked a lot about this in his crusade class. 00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:04.259 So, relics were some kind of object that somebody in the Bible had contact with. 00:31:04.259 --> 00:31:13.240 So, this could be like, this was the staff that David used, or this could be the cloak that John the Baptist had. 00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:18.599 And if you owned it or you could even look upon, it would cut down time in purgatory. 00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:24.140 Indulgences were the thing that really set Martin Luther off years later. 00:31:24.140 --> 00:31:32.920 When he went to Rome and he found out that if he just looked and came up and looked at these nails that were supposedly on the cross of Christ, 00:31:32.980 --> 00:31:37.560 he could have, I think he said, 500 years off purgatory just for looking at them. 00:31:38.280 --> 00:31:42.759 So, it was just kind of a superstition that wasn't anywhere in the Bible. 00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:50.039 So, the Inquisition was more like a religious tribunal, if you want to put it that way. 00:31:50.119 --> 00:31:58.839 If you disagree with what Rome taught, then you'd be brought before the cardinals and the bishops, 00:31:58.839 --> 00:31:59.720 and they would try you. 00:31:59.799 --> 00:32:04.740 And if you refused to recant or take back what you said, you usually would be put to death. 00:32:04.859 --> 00:32:09.680 So, it was like a religious tribunal that went on throughout the medieval ages. 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:12.660 A lot of us have heard of the Spanish Inquisition before. 00:32:12.759 --> 00:32:15.320 That was probably one of the most famous ones in history. 00:32:17.580 --> 00:32:21.060 So, in the state of Christendom, that just means where Christianity is, 00:32:21.700 --> 00:32:23.480 the majority of the scriptures were in Latin. 00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:27.039 The majority of the ones that people had access to were in Latin. 00:32:27.259 --> 00:32:30.920 And the Latin Vulgate was really, really common. 00:32:32.360 --> 00:32:38.360 So, you've heard people say, like I said earlier, the Bible has some errors in it, right? 00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:40.059 But that's what I heard. 00:32:40.139 --> 00:32:42.279 Somebody told me that, so I don't know if we can really trust it. 00:32:43.099 --> 00:32:45.000 Well, this is where that might actually come in. 00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:52.719 A guy named Diderius Erasmus was a brilliant scholar. 00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:55.759 Don't really know if he was a believer or not. 00:32:55.799 --> 00:32:56.839 I'd like to think he was. 00:32:56.839 --> 00:33:00.859 But he was the guy who kind of had it out with Luther later about salvation. 00:33:00.859 --> 00:33:04.639 But he wrote a Greek New Testament. 00:33:05.679 --> 00:33:05.919 All right? 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:09.059 So, you could go and read the original Greek. 00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:11.099 He put one together. 00:33:11.219 --> 00:33:12.759 And you could read the Latin right beside it. 00:33:13.459 --> 00:33:17.779 And when they did this, he discovered there was a lot of errors in the Latin Vulgate. 00:33:18.539 --> 00:33:21.319 And he kind of pointed out the Pope. 00:33:21.399 --> 00:33:24.399 He gave that to the Pope again in that Greek New Testament. 00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:26.240 The Pope was like, thanks. 00:33:26.639 --> 00:33:27.639 Like he's kind of nervous. 00:33:27.819 --> 00:33:28.579 It made him really nervous. 00:33:28.579 --> 00:33:33.240 Because when people start getting their hands on the Scripture, stuff starts being exposed. 00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:36.099 But this is one example of a translation here. 00:33:36.179 --> 00:33:36.839 Matthew 4. 00:33:37.220 --> 00:33:38.419 Matthew 4.17. 00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:42.500 This is reading out of ESV now. 00:33:42.659 --> 00:33:42.879 It says, 00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:45.859 For that time, Jesus began to preach, saying, 00:33:46.500 --> 00:33:49.619 Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand. 00:33:50.019 --> 00:33:52.679 So, this is what that says right there in Latin. 00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:57.879 The problem is, the Vulgate, you see that one word close right there at the end? 00:33:58.579 --> 00:33:59.220 Penitatium. 00:33:59.379 --> 00:33:59.939 Penitatium. 00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:01.899 It means penance. 00:34:02.399 --> 00:34:03.980 It's saying, do penance. 00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:06.759 So, basically saying, do a lot of good works. 00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:09.619 Abase yourself. 00:34:10.819 --> 00:34:11.639 Abase yourself. 00:34:11.759 --> 00:34:15.960 Show like some kind of external expression of how much you hate your sin. 00:34:16.699 --> 00:34:17.000 Okay? 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:21.599 Which Calvin later pointed out that that's not what God wants. 00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:22.719 Remember Psalm 51? 00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:26.199 The sacrifices of God are a broken and contrite heart. 00:34:27.099 --> 00:34:31.960 And Erasmus actually translated this, repent or change your mind. 00:34:32.460 --> 00:34:33.159 That's what he wrote. 00:34:33.260 --> 00:34:34.280 That's what Erasmus was saying. 00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:35.360 That's what the Greek says, man. 00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:38.860 He's saying like, so it's talking about an inward transformation. 00:34:38.860 --> 00:34:41.539 Like you hate your sin out of your heart. 00:34:41.620 --> 00:34:42.820 And you understand that it's evil. 00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:46.960 It's not just saying, well, I really like my sin. 00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:50.440 But if I do this and abase myself, God will be happy. 00:34:50.599 --> 00:34:52.980 God is more concerned about the heart than your outward action. 00:34:52.980 --> 00:34:58.460 So, that was one error of many in the Latin Vulgate. 00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:01.960 So, Rome began to kind of get afraid. 00:35:02.099 --> 00:35:06.300 Like, well, if that's messed up, what other parts might be messed up? 00:35:06.900 --> 00:35:11.579 So, going on to the sermons and music were Latin. 00:35:11.820 --> 00:35:16.420 Now, you understand that like most people in Europe at that time, they didn't understand Latin. 00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:20.240 It was just mainly certain elites knew Latin. 00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:23.799 And if you went to law school or something like that, you were taught Latin. 00:35:24.619 --> 00:35:27.099 And the sermons at this time were not like you'd hear today. 00:35:27.179 --> 00:35:32.939 You wouldn't come to a service back then or a mass and hear them teach just right out of the Bible. 00:35:34.479 --> 00:35:36.659 You know, doing expository preaching. 00:35:37.319 --> 00:35:42.279 Most of their sermons were trivial pursuit and storytelling. 00:35:42.979 --> 00:35:47.899 And they followed more of the teachings of Plato and Aristotle rather than what the Bible said. 00:35:47.900 --> 00:35:58.880 Just like sadly today, and I hope and I pray that you don't go to a place like this where it's like pop psychology and all the cool stuff today. 00:35:59.019 --> 00:35:59.960 It's like kind of taking over. 00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:02.559 Tell me five ways to have a good marriage. 00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:04.019 Five ways to have a nice day. 00:36:04.720 --> 00:36:06.139 And like that's the kind of sermons you hear. 00:36:06.220 --> 00:36:08.960 It's more pop psychology than it is the Bible. 00:36:09.139 --> 00:36:10.660 It was the same thing back then. 00:36:10.659 --> 00:36:15.460 And so that was their sermons and also mystery plays. 00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:22.759 This is just, again, just plays that they did to kind of represent things that happened in the Bible. 00:36:23.899 --> 00:36:25.319 Stories that you saw in the Bible. 00:36:26.420 --> 00:36:29.319 So here's a question. 00:36:29.460 --> 00:36:30.539 I asked this question before. 00:36:30.539 --> 00:36:36.940 So at this time, during this huge period of time in the Dark Ages and medievalism, 00:36:37.619 --> 00:36:43.420 was there anybody who actually taught like the real Scripture and taught the real Gospel during this huge span of time? 00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:45.000 Was there just nothing going on? 00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:46.480 Which one was it? 00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:52.199 And the answer biblically to that is God always has His people somewhere. 00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:56.739 And we'll get to that in just a second. 00:36:56.739 --> 00:36:58.940 But I wanted to bring this up. 00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:00.340 We'll kind of run through this real fast. 00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:02.340 Scripture availability. 00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:06.440 Most people just didn't have a copy of the Bible at all. 00:37:07.259 --> 00:37:08.279 Had no idea. 00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:10.000 They were all handwritten. 00:37:10.860 --> 00:37:11.779 There were a few copies. 00:37:12.699 --> 00:37:15.900 If you had one, it was very, very, very expensive to have. 00:37:16.619 --> 00:37:18.800 And the ones that they did have were like locked and secured. 00:37:18.940 --> 00:37:20.239 So you just didn't have access to it. 00:37:20.259 --> 00:37:23.480 You couldn't just go to Bible Gateway on your computer and look it up. 00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:25.599 Nobody had this. 00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:30.199 So during this time, was there any kind of preservation? 00:37:30.420 --> 00:37:31.279 And the answer is yes. 00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:35.339 God always sovereignly has His people and has His Word. 00:37:35.340 --> 00:37:41.100 It's what we might call in history isolated torches of light in the dark. 00:37:41.099 --> 00:37:45.960 And one of the most well-known groups out there were called the Koldees. 00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:49.139 And it means vassals of God. 00:37:49.380 --> 00:37:51.400 And there's a huge branch of them in Ireland. 00:37:51.559 --> 00:37:55.619 They were called Selde, which was God's sworn ally. 00:37:55.619 --> 00:38:03.139 And at this time, they were a monastic order of settlements in Ireland, Scotland, and England. 00:38:04.279 --> 00:38:08.139 They taught the gospel that you hear today. 00:38:08.739 --> 00:38:11.380 They had access to the original Greek Hebrew. 00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:16.699 They preached the gospel by grace alone, through faith alone, and Christ alone. 00:38:17.359 --> 00:38:18.299 There wasn't anything different. 00:38:18.380 --> 00:38:23.119 They understood that the Bible was the ultimate authority and not a human being, not a person. 00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:26.440 And so, all this was going on. 00:38:26.699 --> 00:38:29.920 And now we're going to kind of transition into England a little bit, okay? 00:38:30.759 --> 00:38:33.339 Because that's how we get our English Bibles. 00:38:33.460 --> 00:38:34.659 Most of us speak English. 00:38:34.819 --> 00:38:36.299 So that's what we're going to kind of go for. 00:38:36.839 --> 00:38:39.279 But the Reformation was going on all over Europe. 00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:42.259 But we're going to start moving that way in just a little while. 00:38:44.579 --> 00:38:50.279 John Wycliffe, he called the morning star the Reformation. 00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.880 He kind of came, he was before Martin Luther. 00:38:54.680 --> 00:38:57.120 He was a product of the Codys. 00:38:57.820 --> 00:38:58.200 All right? 00:38:58.320 --> 00:38:59.400 Like we just looked at. 00:38:59.920 --> 00:39:01.500 So he had been taught this stuff. 00:39:01.580 --> 00:39:04.620 So he was in England, and he was a professor at Oxford. 00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:07.820 He was a very wealthy, prestigious, powerful man. 00:39:07.820 --> 00:39:11.740 And he began to teach at his university. 00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:17.059 He was kind of one of the first well-known guys to stand up and say, 00:39:17.180 --> 00:39:21.380 the Pope and the church in Rome is not God's voice on the earth. 00:39:21.900 --> 00:39:22.680 The Bible does. 00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:25.059 He was kind of, that was like a crazy idea, you know? 00:39:25.580 --> 00:39:29.440 So he was saying, the Scripture is our ultimate authority for everything. 00:39:30.140 --> 00:39:31.580 Just like he says right there. 00:39:31.579 --> 00:39:34.639 So he began to kind of teach this stuff. 00:39:35.259 --> 00:39:39.299 And people would come from all over Europe to Oxford to kind of sit and hear him lecture. 00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:42.639 And they'd just be like taking notes like crazy. 00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:45.460 And they would take it back to whatever country they were from. 00:39:46.019 --> 00:39:50.539 It was like ammunition, basically, just to understand like what the Bible taught. 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:54.900 He eventually translated from the Latin Vulgate into English. 00:39:54.900 --> 00:39:57.300 So it was called the Wycliffe Bible. 00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:01.519 But he only used the Latin to write to English. 00:40:01.579 --> 00:40:02.160 He didn't read. 00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:05.300 He didn't understand Greek or Hebrew at the time. 00:40:06.220 --> 00:40:09.700 So he's called the Morning Star of the Reformation. 00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:11.240 And he was in England. 00:40:11.639 --> 00:40:17.099 And when he died, Rome hated him so much that he actually dug up his bones, 00:40:17.900 --> 00:40:22.599 burned them, and scattered his ashes so nobody would ever know where he was buried. 00:40:24.900 --> 00:40:28.260 So, Reformation does roll around. 00:40:30.139 --> 00:40:33.639 Does anybody know what the 31st is this month besides Halloween? 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:35.920 Reformation Day. 00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:37.559 Cool. 00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:43.260 That's when Martin Luther supposedly nailed the 95 Theses to the door of Edinburgh. 00:40:43.500 --> 00:40:45.980 It was October 31st, All Saints Day. 00:40:47.180 --> 00:40:49.639 So, post-tenebrous looks. 00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:53.240 That means it's a phrase that's used to describe the Reformation. 00:40:53.239 --> 00:40:55.759 And it means after darkness, light. 00:40:56.839 --> 00:40:57.719 Pretty cool. 00:40:58.399 --> 00:40:59.379 Pretty cool phrase. 00:41:00.419 --> 00:41:03.739 Because the light of God's Word began to kind of break back into the people. 00:41:04.459 --> 00:41:06.019 I mentioned this briefly last week. 00:41:06.799 --> 00:41:08.859 The five solos of the Reformation. 00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:14.599 These are pillars of what we would believe today that we teach here at Christ's Family. 00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:20.099 And these were the key truths that were taught in the Reformation. 00:41:20.259 --> 00:41:21.099 And all these are huge. 00:41:21.319 --> 00:41:24.279 But basically, I'm going to try to connect them together for you. 00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:35.219 That salvation, okay, comes by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. 00:41:35.219 --> 00:41:36.459 All right? 00:41:37.419 --> 00:41:42.399 By grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. 00:41:42.559 --> 00:41:48.599 And the loans are really key because Rome taught, yeah, you're saved by grace, but not grace alone. 00:41:49.379 --> 00:41:51.579 Yeah, you're saved by faith, but not faith alone. 00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:55.299 It was also up to you to do a lot of the stuff. 00:41:55.439 --> 00:42:00.559 The works of righteousness, the penance, taking part in the sacraments, confession to a priest. 00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:09.099 All these things were necessary for salvation, but the Reformation said, no, it's grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. 00:42:09.759 --> 00:42:12.579 And all of that is to God's glory alone. 00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:23.199 And the biggest indictment that a lot of the Reformers had on Rome was that they were trying to steal glory from God in salvation. 00:42:23.759 --> 00:42:24.000 All right? 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:35.619 And that's why John and I have been doing this series, because it is in salvation that God has brought the most glory to himself by redeeming man, by sending his son, by showing us grace. 00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:41.760 And their biggest indictment was, like, you guys are trying to steal glory from God in salvation. 00:42:41.940 --> 00:42:47.179 And it's clear in Scripture that God is the only Savior, and he doesn't share his glory. 00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:48.199 He's the only one. 00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:51.159 So, to God, along be the glory. 00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:52.380 So, so would David Gloria. 00:42:52.380 --> 00:42:52.500 Yeah. 00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:57.280 And, okay, so, so Rome says, okay, where are you getting all that? 00:42:58.019 --> 00:42:59.140 Where are you getting all that? 00:42:59.180 --> 00:43:01.320 And they would say, sola scriptura. 00:43:02.500 --> 00:43:05.380 Scripture alone is our authority, not, and the church. 00:43:06.140 --> 00:43:07.660 It's not unequal authority. 00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:10.780 Scripture alone is our authority. 00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:14.019 So, that's the five solas. 00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:16.920 You should do a study on those sometime on your own. 00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:23.639 And so, the reformers' view of sola scriptura stood against the Roman view of Scripture. 00:43:23.820 --> 00:43:25.940 Like I said, it was the ultimate authority. 00:43:26.619 --> 00:43:27.619 The ultimate say-so. 00:43:27.619 --> 00:43:37.019 But what the reformers did teach was they, you don't throw out creeds and confessions and church history altogether. 00:43:37.579 --> 00:43:38.119 All right? 00:43:38.139 --> 00:43:41.539 Because the gospel has been passed down throughout the centuries. 00:43:41.679 --> 00:43:41.880 Okay? 00:43:41.880 --> 00:43:46.500 So, what we believe today has been believed throughout the centuries by real believers. 00:43:46.640 --> 00:43:49.599 So, it's not like you disconnect yourself from the past. 00:43:50.200 --> 00:43:54.440 But you don't put the creeds of the church on equal authority with the Bible. 00:43:54.920 --> 00:43:57.200 It's just a helpful way to help understand the Bible. 00:43:57.320 --> 00:43:59.360 People have always taught the Scripture. 00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:03.620 So, one day, if you just wake up and you say, I'm going to believe this. 00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:10.440 And it's a new idea that has never been discovered by any Christians for 2,000 years. 00:44:11.720 --> 00:44:18.519 Or has been seen in church history to be heretical, like Arianism, which taught that Jesus was not really God. 00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:20.420 Way back when. 00:44:20.940 --> 00:44:22.019 In the Council of Nicaea. 00:44:23.700 --> 00:44:27.440 It's probably a good idea that you just need to throw away your interpretation, if that's true. 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:29.840 Because there's not any new truth out there. 00:44:29.920 --> 00:44:30.740 It's always been the same. 00:44:30.900 --> 00:44:33.460 So, the Reformers weren't saying throw away truth. 00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:35.200 Or throw away church history. 00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:38.220 They were just trying to say that it's not the equal authority with the Bible. 00:44:38.380 --> 00:44:40.280 It's just not on the same level. 00:44:41.300 --> 00:44:46.679 And they would also say that the Pope is not to interpret Scripture alone. 00:44:47.840 --> 00:44:50.320 Every believer has the right to interpret Scripture. 00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:51.240 Okay? 00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:52.019 And to read it. 00:44:52.260 --> 00:44:53.500 And to have it. 00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:54.179 And possess it. 00:44:54.179 --> 00:44:58.719 But the number one rule that they had for interpretation was this. 00:44:59.460 --> 00:45:03.699 It's called Sacra Scriptura Sui Interpretes. 00:45:03.759 --> 00:45:07.739 Which means, Sacred Scripture is its own interpreter. 00:45:08.299 --> 00:45:08.460 Okay? 00:45:09.019 --> 00:45:10.960 So, how do we know what the Bible means? 00:45:11.539 --> 00:45:13.879 Because of what the rest of the Bible says about that verse. 00:45:14.500 --> 00:45:16.000 The Bible is its own interpreter. 00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:17.779 Scripture interprets Scripture. 00:45:17.780 --> 00:45:17.900 Scripture. 00:45:18.360 --> 00:45:21.360 So, if you want to know what this means, come over here to find out. 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:22.220 You know? 00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:23.080 So, how do we know? 00:45:23.660 --> 00:45:28.500 And so, what you do is just over studying the Word, you understand that certain doctrines 00:45:28.500 --> 00:45:31.920 and certain principles are taught over and over and over again. 00:45:32.860 --> 00:45:34.000 Just like about heaven. 00:45:34.500 --> 00:45:35.580 Which, Mr. Overton's here. 00:45:35.640 --> 00:45:37.060 You ought to hear him talk about heaven sometime. 00:45:37.700 --> 00:45:39.940 Like, we look at all these passages that deal with heaven. 00:45:39.940 --> 00:45:44.119 And it helps us get a bigger picture about what heaven actually is. 00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:44.700 You know? 00:45:45.420 --> 00:45:46.639 You say, what does that mean? 00:45:46.700 --> 00:45:47.760 You read here and it tells you. 00:45:48.360 --> 00:45:51.720 So, Scripture is to be interpreted by Scripture. 00:45:51.860 --> 00:45:52.440 What is the rule? 00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:55.240 And that's a safeguard against error. 00:45:56.200 --> 00:45:58.720 So, that's the Reformers' view of Scripture. 00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:02.480 Gutenberg Pring Press. 00:46:02.579 --> 00:46:04.300 Okay, we're really getting historical now, aren't we? 00:46:04.300 --> 00:46:11.300 But really, God uses everything eventually for good and for His glory. 00:46:11.400 --> 00:46:11.920 All things. 00:46:12.680 --> 00:46:15.300 So, this made printing and reading materials quicker. 00:46:16.160 --> 00:46:18.780 Made reading materials more available to commoners. 00:46:19.260 --> 00:46:20.880 And increased the literacy rate. 00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:25.280 So, aka, ideas could spread a lot faster. 00:46:26.140 --> 00:46:26.340 You know? 00:46:26.340 --> 00:46:31.220 So, these things that these scholars like Calvin and Martin Luther are putting out, 00:46:31.219 --> 00:46:34.480 they can be easily put in print and sent out to people to read. 00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:37.179 They don't have to, like, hand copy everything anymore. 00:46:38.279 --> 00:46:39.619 So, big invention. 00:46:40.699 --> 00:46:43.519 So, we're about to move into the English Reformation, 00:46:43.779 --> 00:46:48.779 but I need to mention two people who had an enormous influence on the English Reformation. 00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:50.719 Martin Luther. 00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:59.219 When he was asked to recant, you know, his teachings about how salvation is by grace 00:46:59.219 --> 00:47:02.019 and the Word of God is the only authority, 00:47:02.899 --> 00:47:03.299 he said, 00:47:03.359 --> 00:47:05.559 My conscience is held captive to the Word of God. 00:47:05.799 --> 00:47:09.119 And he was instrumental. 00:47:09.419 --> 00:47:10.619 Like, he was the... 00:47:10.619 --> 00:47:11.579 If you think about the Reformation, 00:47:11.719 --> 00:47:12.919 most people think about Martin Luther. 00:47:13.359 --> 00:47:15.000 Pretty incredible guy. 00:47:15.099 --> 00:47:16.179 Not a flawless guy. 00:47:16.239 --> 00:47:17.659 He had a lot of serious problems. 00:47:17.659 --> 00:47:20.659 He had a lot of serious issues in his life. 00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:23.279 He wasn't, like, a perfect guy by any means. 00:47:23.359 --> 00:47:24.159 But he just understood... 00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:25.739 The thing is, he understood that. 00:47:26.279 --> 00:47:28.719 He understood, like, man, I'm a wretched sinner, 00:47:28.859 --> 00:47:30.439 and I need the grace of God. 00:47:31.339 --> 00:47:33.119 So, that's what he taught. 00:47:33.199 --> 00:47:35.919 He eventually translated the Bible into German. 00:47:36.899 --> 00:47:37.699 John Calvin. 00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:40.539 This guy really blows my mind. 00:47:42.319 --> 00:47:43.119 No doubt, 00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:45.959 if you go back and look at what this guy did, 00:47:45.959 --> 00:47:48.079 he did the work of 20 men in his life. 00:47:48.239 --> 00:47:49.659 It's just crazy. 00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:56.419 He had an enormous influence on the Reformation in England as well. 00:47:57.459 --> 00:47:59.959 He actually wrote a lot of systematic theology. 00:48:00.179 --> 00:48:01.559 He took, like... 00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:02.379 So, the Reformation, 00:48:02.539 --> 00:48:03.779 all these big events going on, 00:48:03.859 --> 00:48:05.599 he was actually a scholar who was able to say, 00:48:05.839 --> 00:48:07.579 this is what's going on here. 00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:08.899 This is what this is really about. 00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:10.859 Salvation by grace alone, 00:48:10.959 --> 00:48:11.699 through faith alone. 00:48:11.699 --> 00:48:15.299 Two things he said. 00:48:16.899 --> 00:48:17.500 Really cool. 00:48:17.559 --> 00:48:18.639 This is about the Scripture itself. 00:48:19.439 --> 00:48:21.159 Let us become submissive to God, 00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:23.719 and then He will convey to us by His Word 00:48:23.719 --> 00:48:24.659 nothing but sweetness, 00:48:25.539 --> 00:48:26.419 nothing but delight. 00:48:27.319 --> 00:48:29.539 We owe the Scripture the same reverence 00:48:29.539 --> 00:48:30.699 for which we owe to God, 00:48:31.259 --> 00:48:33.500 because it has proceeded from Him alone, 00:48:33.899 --> 00:48:35.799 and has nothing of man mixed with it. 00:48:35.800 --> 00:48:37.700 The experience teaches us 00:48:37.700 --> 00:48:39.039 that the highest proof of Scripture 00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:41.180 derives in general from the fact 00:48:41.180 --> 00:48:43.060 that God in person speaks in it. 00:48:43.680 --> 00:48:44.539 Like I was saying earlier, 00:48:44.640 --> 00:48:46.000 Scripture proves itself. 00:48:46.160 --> 00:48:47.100 It's just... 00:48:47.100 --> 00:48:47.740 It's amazing. 00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:48.420 It's beautiful. 00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:52.340 Anybody need to kind of stand up and stretch? 00:48:53.140 --> 00:48:54.940 We've got about 20 more minutes, I think. 00:48:55.620 --> 00:48:56.640 I'm trying to move fast. 00:48:56.720 --> 00:48:57.500 We don't feel like... 00:48:57.500 --> 00:48:59.679 If you're getting kind of like warm and cozy, 00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:00.860 you need to move, that's fine. 00:49:02.099 --> 00:49:02.980 Wow, what happened? 00:49:05.079 --> 00:49:05.880 Do that again. 00:49:07.260 --> 00:49:07.679 Oh, well. 00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:09.059 It says the English Reformation. 00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:13.679 So, that's a picture of England, Scotland. 00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:17.039 For those of you who don't know, 00:49:19.579 --> 00:49:20.579 Thomas Bilney, 00:49:20.659 --> 00:49:22.800 he was kind of like a forgotten figure 00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:24.719 in the English Reformation. 00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:26.940 He was a scholar, 00:49:27.500 --> 00:49:28.780 and like a lot of people, 00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:30.800 he got a hold of one of Erasmus' 00:49:31.460 --> 00:49:32.360 New Testament, 00:49:32.639 --> 00:49:33.639 or Greek New Testaments. 00:49:34.659 --> 00:49:34.980 All right? 00:49:35.059 --> 00:49:37.360 Now, he had been brought up in Roman theology. 00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:39.119 And one night, 00:49:39.179 --> 00:49:41.000 he kind of like... 00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:42.260 kind of got by himself, 00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:43.300 got in a corner, 00:49:44.059 --> 00:49:45.860 and started reading this by a candlelight. 00:49:46.860 --> 00:49:48.719 And he read 1 Timothy 1.15, 00:49:48.860 --> 00:49:49.519 where it says, 00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:50.599 or Paul says, 00:49:51.380 --> 00:49:52.960 This is a faithful saying, 00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:54.800 worthy of all exception, 00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:56.840 that Christ Jesus came into the world 00:49:56.840 --> 00:49:58.579 to save sinners, 00:49:59.180 --> 00:50:00.700 of whom I am chief. 00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:03.120 And that just exploded in the world. 00:50:03.220 --> 00:50:03.440 He's like, 00:50:03.519 --> 00:50:04.960 Wow, Paul is the chief of sinners? 00:50:05.019 --> 00:50:06.960 Because Paul is made out by Rome 00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:08.280 to be like this sinless, 00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:09.100 beautiful, 00:50:10.180 --> 00:50:10.880 most, you know, 00:50:11.120 --> 00:50:12.620 right under Jesus type guy. 00:50:13.260 --> 00:50:14.100 And Paul's like, 00:50:14.140 --> 00:50:15.559 I am the chief of sinners. 00:50:15.740 --> 00:50:17.079 And Christ came to save sinners. 00:50:17.079 --> 00:50:19.480 And that's just something he said 00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:21.319 as a result of that. 00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:23.340 So imagine that the world you live in, 00:50:23.380 --> 00:50:24.059 like right now, 00:50:24.739 --> 00:50:26.400 is really common to kind of believe 00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:27.239 a certain idea. 00:50:28.179 --> 00:50:30.299 And people that say otherwise 00:50:30.299 --> 00:50:32.579 are imprisoned or put to death. 00:50:33.159 --> 00:50:34.739 And you read something like this, 00:50:34.779 --> 00:50:35.619 it just kind of like, 00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:37.900 says contrary to what you've always heard. 00:50:38.559 --> 00:50:38.900 And you're like, 00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:39.579 What do you do? 00:50:39.579 --> 00:50:39.980 Well, 00:50:43.319 --> 00:50:44.400 Bill and he actually went out 00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:45.920 and began to preach the gospel to people. 00:50:46.679 --> 00:50:48.039 Preached God's word to people. 00:50:48.659 --> 00:50:50.519 When he was cast out of the pulpit, 00:50:50.619 --> 00:50:51.440 he began to kind of preach 00:50:51.440 --> 00:50:52.000 in the countryside. 00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:54.000 Just out in the countryside, 00:50:54.219 --> 00:50:54.920 the English countryside. 00:50:56.179 --> 00:50:57.319 Eventually he was caught 00:50:57.319 --> 00:51:01.340 and he was imprisoned for a year 00:51:01.340 --> 00:51:02.239 in the Tower of London. 00:51:03.420 --> 00:51:05.420 One of his biggest things 00:51:05.420 --> 00:51:06.059 that he rejected 00:51:06.059 --> 00:51:06.960 other than, you know, 00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:09.059 salvation by works 00:51:09.059 --> 00:51:12.079 was the Roman idea 00:51:12.079 --> 00:51:13.639 of transubstation. 00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:14.559 That's a big word. 00:51:15.240 --> 00:51:16.780 It's basically the Eucharist, 00:51:16.820 --> 00:51:17.659 like the Lord's Supper. 00:51:19.940 --> 00:51:20.780 Rome taught 00:51:20.780 --> 00:51:23.320 that when you actually partook 00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:24.099 of the Lord's Supper 00:51:24.099 --> 00:51:25.659 and you ate the bread 00:51:25.659 --> 00:51:27.400 and you drank the wine, 00:51:28.179 --> 00:51:29.320 in that moment, 00:51:29.420 --> 00:51:30.920 it literally turned into 00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:32.760 the blood of Christ 00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:33.760 and the body of Christ. 00:51:33.840 --> 00:51:34.699 You were like eating him. 00:51:34.699 --> 00:51:37.019 And this was a way for you 00:51:37.019 --> 00:51:38.399 to have grace in your life. 00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:39.219 It was kind of to 00:51:39.219 --> 00:51:40.799 take care of Christ 00:51:40.799 --> 00:51:42.119 and get their explanation 00:51:42.119 --> 00:51:42.819 from that in John 00:51:42.819 --> 00:51:44.539 where Jesus says, 00:51:45.219 --> 00:51:45.919 He who wants to have 00:51:45.919 --> 00:51:46.439 eternal life 00:51:46.439 --> 00:51:47.279 must eat my flesh 00:51:47.279 --> 00:51:48.079 and drink my blood. 00:51:48.759 --> 00:51:50.259 But he was speaking figuratively, 00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:51.279 not literally. 00:51:52.539 --> 00:51:52.899 So, 00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:54.879 which is what the rest 00:51:54.879 --> 00:51:56.159 of the Scripture teaches anyway. 00:51:56.159 --> 00:51:56.619 So, 00:51:57.879 --> 00:51:59.679 have you ever heard, 00:52:01.059 --> 00:52:03.019 see if this sounds familiar to you. 00:52:03.779 --> 00:52:05.000 In the Roman Eucharist, 00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:06.179 they used this phrase, 00:52:07.059 --> 00:52:08.539 Hocus Ium Corpus. 00:52:09.859 --> 00:52:10.219 And, 00:52:10.299 --> 00:52:14.159 that's the Latin for something. 00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:16.839 Hocus Ium Corpus Miam. 00:52:17.899 --> 00:52:18.539 Alright? 00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:20.699 That's where it's saying, 00:52:20.799 --> 00:52:20.899 you know, 00:52:20.940 --> 00:52:21.759 this is my body, 00:52:21.899 --> 00:52:22.960 literally in Latin. 00:52:23.820 --> 00:52:24.139 But, 00:52:25.179 --> 00:52:27.179 sometimes the priest 00:52:27.179 --> 00:52:27.579 that would actually 00:52:27.579 --> 00:52:29.840 perform the Roman Eucharist 00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:31.099 would like stumble 00:52:31.099 --> 00:52:31.659 with the Latin 00:52:31.659 --> 00:52:32.440 like they didn't really know 00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:32.740 Latin. 00:52:32.860 --> 00:52:33.280 They were like, 00:52:33.820 --> 00:52:35.000 even like you listening to 00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:36.099 somebody speaking their language 00:52:36.099 --> 00:52:36.860 and just trying to imitate 00:52:36.860 --> 00:52:37.619 what they said 00:52:37.619 --> 00:52:38.720 because you didn't really know 00:52:38.720 --> 00:52:39.320 the language, 00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:41.340 it turned into Hocus Pocus. 00:52:41.659 --> 00:52:42.500 That's where you get that from. 00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:45.240 It was like this magical thing 00:52:45.240 --> 00:52:45.519 that, 00:52:46.179 --> 00:52:46.940 and that's what the people 00:52:46.940 --> 00:52:47.599 would joke about, 00:52:47.659 --> 00:52:48.360 it was like they're magically 00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:51.500 turning the wine and the bread 00:52:51.500 --> 00:52:53.019 into the body and blood of Christ. 00:52:53.380 --> 00:52:53.539 You know, 00:52:53.559 --> 00:52:54.119 Hocus Pocus, 00:52:54.280 --> 00:52:54.719 that's kind of like 00:52:54.719 --> 00:52:56.420 where that actually comes from. 00:52:57.159 --> 00:52:57.460 So, 00:52:57.780 --> 00:52:58.800 Bill and he rejected that 00:52:58.800 --> 00:52:59.679 and it was really common 00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:01.559 for most reformers 00:53:01.559 --> 00:53:03.519 to reject that idea. 00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:05.699 As we would teach it, 00:53:05.719 --> 00:53:06.460 it's just symbolic 00:53:06.460 --> 00:53:08.300 of the body and blood of Christ. 00:53:09.420 --> 00:53:09.780 So, 00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:11.340 like I said, 00:53:11.380 --> 00:53:11.900 he was in prison 00:53:11.900 --> 00:53:12.739 in the Tower of London. 00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:13.780 They said, 00:53:13.860 --> 00:53:14.780 we're going to release you, 00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:15.579 but if we do, 00:53:15.659 --> 00:53:16.400 don't come back 00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:17.519 and keep preaching. 00:53:18.340 --> 00:53:18.699 So, 00:53:18.780 --> 00:53:19.400 they released him, 00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:19.840 and he went out 00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:20.699 and started preaching again. 00:53:22.300 --> 00:53:23.039 But eventually, 00:53:23.119 --> 00:53:25.199 he knew this was going to cost him. 00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:25.480 You know, 00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:26.980 he was in prison again 00:53:26.980 --> 00:53:28.780 and eventually he was executed. 00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:30.179 And, 00:53:30.179 --> 00:53:32.199 but this is just one guy 00:53:32.199 --> 00:53:32.639 of many, 00:53:32.760 --> 00:53:33.699 I thought I would just mention him. 00:53:34.559 --> 00:53:35.300 Big Henry. 00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:36.480 We've got to talk about Henry. 00:53:37.659 --> 00:53:38.059 Definitely, 00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:39.639 probably not a Christian, 00:53:39.780 --> 00:53:39.980 okay, 00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:41.820 but God uses even evil men 00:53:41.820 --> 00:53:43.539 to accomplish his purpose. 00:53:44.460 --> 00:53:45.139 All right? 00:53:46.099 --> 00:53:47.460 His divorce from 00:53:47.460 --> 00:53:49.039 Catherine of Oregon. 00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:49.820 Okay? 00:53:49.820 --> 00:53:51.559 He married Catherine, 00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:53.539 which was his brother's widow, 00:53:54.500 --> 00:53:57.160 and she had numerous miscarriages 00:53:57.160 --> 00:53:58.920 and couldn't produce 00:53:58.920 --> 00:53:59.840 like a male heir. 00:54:00.660 --> 00:54:01.860 She gave birth to Mary, 00:54:02.700 --> 00:54:03.539 a daughter, 00:54:04.340 --> 00:54:05.340 and Henry at this time 00:54:05.340 --> 00:54:06.120 was really afraid 00:54:06.120 --> 00:54:07.039 that anyone might go 00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:08.300 into another war of the roses. 00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:08.900 That's just 00:54:08.900 --> 00:54:10.180 what it was all about. 00:54:10.240 --> 00:54:10.380 Like, 00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:11.059 who has the right 00:54:11.059 --> 00:54:14.160 to inherit the throne of England? 00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:15.879 And so he was really worried 00:54:15.879 --> 00:54:16.460 about this 00:54:16.460 --> 00:54:17.319 and he was upset 00:54:17.319 --> 00:54:18.259 because she wasn't giving him 00:54:18.259 --> 00:54:18.879 a male heir 00:54:18.879 --> 00:54:20.619 like it was all her fault. 00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:21.179 You know? 00:54:22.899 --> 00:54:24.199 This is just like drama 00:54:24.199 --> 00:54:24.719 at its best. 00:54:24.779 --> 00:54:25.739 This is like Jerry Springer 00:54:25.739 --> 00:54:27.599 back in the Reformation days. 00:54:27.699 --> 00:54:28.239 It really is. 00:54:28.879 --> 00:54:29.239 So, 00:54:29.359 --> 00:54:30.259 he saw a divorce. 00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:31.239 He went to the Pope 00:54:31.239 --> 00:54:31.859 and he said, 00:54:32.559 --> 00:54:32.779 look, 00:54:32.799 --> 00:54:33.759 this isn't working out. 00:54:34.539 --> 00:54:35.699 I need a male heir. 00:54:35.699 --> 00:54:38.399 He pulled some scripture 00:54:38.399 --> 00:54:39.019 out of context 00:54:39.019 --> 00:54:39.759 out of Leviticus. 00:54:39.939 --> 00:54:40.559 I remember he was like, 00:54:40.599 --> 00:54:41.019 you can't marry 00:54:41.019 --> 00:54:41.779 your brother's wife 00:54:41.779 --> 00:54:43.000 and all kinds of stuff. 00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:44.359 Not really what I meant. 00:54:44.839 --> 00:54:45.059 But, 00:54:45.899 --> 00:54:47.119 he thought he was 00:54:47.119 --> 00:54:48.819 legitimate 00:54:48.819 --> 00:54:50.980 in his need to be divorced. 00:54:51.980 --> 00:54:54.019 The Pope refused 00:54:54.019 --> 00:54:55.500 for several reasons. 00:54:55.619 --> 00:54:55.980 He said, 00:54:56.099 --> 00:54:56.619 no, Henry, 00:54:57.559 --> 00:54:59.079 and he was mainly afraid, 00:54:59.179 --> 00:54:59.379 okay, 00:54:59.460 --> 00:55:01.460 because Catherine's nephew 00:55:01.460 --> 00:55:03.159 was Charles V, 00:55:03.319 --> 00:55:04.259 the Holy Roman Emperor. 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:05.679 He had a lot of power. 00:55:05.699 --> 00:55:06.739 Like a lot of power. 00:55:07.460 --> 00:55:07.679 And he, 00:55:07.759 --> 00:55:08.399 at one time, 00:55:08.500 --> 00:55:09.799 before this, 00:55:09.859 --> 00:55:11.039 had actually sacked Rome 00:55:11.039 --> 00:55:12.139 because the Pope 00:55:12.139 --> 00:55:12.799 had defied him. 00:55:13.099 --> 00:55:13.219 So, 00:55:13.879 --> 00:55:14.539 the Pope's like, 00:55:14.599 --> 00:55:16.000 I can't make this happen 00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:17.199 because I do. 00:55:17.980 --> 00:55:18.960 He's going to come down here 00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:19.739 and wipe me out. 00:55:19.859 --> 00:55:20.759 That was his fear. 00:55:20.879 --> 00:55:20.980 So, 00:55:21.059 --> 00:55:21.460 he told, 00:55:21.659 --> 00:55:22.439 you know, 00:55:22.539 --> 00:55:22.939 Henry, 00:55:23.699 --> 00:55:24.219 no go, 00:55:24.319 --> 00:55:24.539 man. 00:55:24.659 --> 00:55:25.639 Not getting a divorce 00:55:25.639 --> 00:55:26.239 from Catherine. 00:55:27.199 --> 00:55:27.319 And, 00:55:27.379 --> 00:55:28.179 and so, 00:55:28.919 --> 00:55:30.119 so, 00:55:30.319 --> 00:55:31.299 so Henry comes back 00:55:31.299 --> 00:55:31.699 to anywhere 00:55:31.699 --> 00:55:32.500 and he's kind of talking 00:55:32.500 --> 00:55:32.899 to his, 00:55:32.899 --> 00:55:34.779 his homies about it. 00:55:35.699 --> 00:55:37.359 And things are not working out. 00:55:39.139 --> 00:55:39.460 Hey, 00:55:39.559 --> 00:55:40.299 I need to jump ahead 00:55:40.299 --> 00:55:40.719 real fast. 00:55:41.559 --> 00:55:41.819 So, 00:55:41.879 --> 00:55:42.719 he eventually broke up 00:55:42.719 --> 00:55:43.159 with Rome. 00:55:48.159 --> 00:55:48.559 And, 00:55:48.559 --> 00:55:50.339 I need to go back again. 00:55:50.340 --> 00:55:52.019 so eventually, 00:55:52.019 --> 00:55:53.300 he declared himself. 00:55:53.780 --> 00:55:55.300 All the clergy in England 00:55:55.300 --> 00:55:55.780 said, 00:55:55.900 --> 00:55:56.600 you have the right 00:55:56.600 --> 00:55:57.059 to be the head 00:55:57.059 --> 00:55:57.460 of the church, 00:55:57.559 --> 00:55:57.760 man. 00:55:58.380 --> 00:55:58.539 Like, 00:55:58.579 --> 00:55:59.280 just as the Pope 00:55:59.280 --> 00:55:59.680 is the head 00:55:59.680 --> 00:56:00.340 of the church of Rome, 00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:01.200 you have the right. 00:56:01.700 --> 00:56:02.460 Why shouldn't you 00:56:02.460 --> 00:56:03.220 to be the head 00:56:03.220 --> 00:56:04.059 of the church of England? 00:56:04.700 --> 00:56:05.620 And to split away 00:56:05.620 --> 00:56:06.519 from all this nonsense, 00:56:06.780 --> 00:56:07.079 you know. 00:56:07.640 --> 00:56:08.160 Henry's like, 00:56:08.200 --> 00:56:08.700 that's right. 00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:09.840 What are they going 00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:10.420 to do about it? 00:56:10.420 --> 00:56:10.960 I'm a monarch. 00:56:11.120 --> 00:56:11.700 I have an army. 00:56:11.800 --> 00:56:12.300 I have a navy. 00:56:12.440 --> 00:56:12.760 What are they going 00:56:12.760 --> 00:56:13.260 to do about it? 00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:13.600 They can't, 00:56:13.600 --> 00:56:14.400 they can't mess with me. 00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:15.519 He was a pretty 00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:16.260 powerful guy. 00:56:17.120 --> 00:56:17.440 So, 00:56:17.600 --> 00:56:18.640 he declared himself, 00:56:18.639 --> 00:56:19.519 you know, 00:56:19.579 --> 00:56:20.420 this is a piece 00:56:20.420 --> 00:56:20.920 out of the act 00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:21.420 of supremacy. 00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:21.960 He says, 00:56:22.519 --> 00:56:23.539 the king's majesty 00:56:23.539 --> 00:56:25.440 and rightly is 00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:26.159 and ought to be 00:56:26.159 --> 00:56:27.039 the only supreme 00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:28.799 head in earth 00:56:28.799 --> 00:56:29.639 of the church of England. 00:56:30.259 --> 00:56:30.679 So, 00:56:30.739 --> 00:56:31.440 he declared himself 00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:32.159 to be the head 00:56:32.159 --> 00:56:32.859 of the church of England. 00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:33.599 He broke away 00:56:33.599 --> 00:56:34.119 from Rome. 00:56:35.199 --> 00:56:35.599 So, 00:56:36.359 --> 00:56:37.059 this was huge. 00:56:37.059 --> 00:56:37.639 Even though, 00:56:38.500 --> 00:56:38.879 you know, 00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:39.779 back to that. 00:56:40.699 --> 00:56:41.559 Then it got into like, 00:56:41.879 --> 00:56:42.559 he has some 00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:43.759 wife swap action 00:56:43.759 --> 00:56:44.980 going on 00:56:44.980 --> 00:56:45.960 numerous times. 00:56:47.059 --> 00:56:47.219 But, 00:56:47.779 --> 00:56:48.319 normally, 00:56:48.320 --> 00:56:49.160 a pope would not 00:56:49.160 --> 00:56:49.900 have a problem 00:56:49.900 --> 00:56:51.080 with like, 00:56:51.160 --> 00:56:52.420 making some accommodations 00:56:52.420 --> 00:56:53.120 for a monarch 00:56:53.120 --> 00:56:53.760 like Henry. 00:56:54.260 --> 00:56:54.460 But, 00:56:54.500 --> 00:56:55.080 he was in a 00:56:55.080 --> 00:56:55.840 sticky situation. 00:56:56.980 --> 00:56:57.220 So, 00:56:58.120 --> 00:57:00.059 moving on. 00:57:01.220 --> 00:57:01.940 This guy 00:57:01.940 --> 00:57:03.180 is an amazing guy. 00:57:03.260 --> 00:57:03.760 If you ever get to 00:57:03.760 --> 00:57:04.539 read about a person 00:57:04.539 --> 00:57:05.220 in church history, 00:57:06.059 --> 00:57:07.240 read about this guy. 00:57:07.620 --> 00:57:08.580 William Tyndale. 00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:10.160 I've heard of 00:57:10.160 --> 00:57:11.360 Tyndale House Publishers. 00:57:13.860 --> 00:57:15.059 Tyndale was 00:57:15.059 --> 00:57:16.080 the guy 00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:16.920 who did believe 00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:17.480 in like, 00:57:17.639 --> 00:57:18.400 the solos 00:57:18.400 --> 00:57:19.059 of the Reformation 00:57:19.059 --> 00:57:19.940 that were going on. 00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:21.500 He was a brilliant guy. 00:57:21.579 --> 00:57:22.500 He was a gifted linguist. 00:57:22.619 --> 00:57:22.980 He spoke, 00:57:23.420 --> 00:57:24.319 he spoke fluently 00:57:24.319 --> 00:57:25.139 in French, 00:57:25.819 --> 00:57:26.159 German, 00:57:26.380 --> 00:57:26.779 Italian, 00:57:27.079 --> 00:57:27.340 Latin, 00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:28.579 and Spanish. 00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:29.819 And he knew 00:57:29.819 --> 00:57:30.360 Greek and Hebrew. 00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:31.679 So, 00:57:31.860 --> 00:57:32.380 this guy 00:57:32.380 --> 00:57:32.880 was like, 00:57:32.920 --> 00:57:34.139 a really huge instrument 00:57:34.139 --> 00:57:35.659 in God's hand, 00:57:35.739 --> 00:57:36.099 for sure. 00:57:36.099 --> 00:57:39.099 he was hanging out 00:57:39.099 --> 00:57:39.559 with like, 00:57:40.420 --> 00:57:42.559 a clergyman one day. 00:57:42.619 --> 00:57:43.619 I think he was just a priest. 00:57:43.719 --> 00:57:44.559 And this priest said, 00:57:45.319 --> 00:57:45.619 man, 00:57:46.579 --> 00:57:47.400 they're talking about 00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:48.480 obeying God's law, 00:57:48.639 --> 00:57:49.519 obeying the Pope's law. 00:57:49.639 --> 00:57:50.299 And the guy said, 00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:51.980 we had better obey 00:57:51.980 --> 00:57:52.819 the Pope's law 00:57:52.819 --> 00:57:53.940 before we obey 00:57:53.940 --> 00:57:54.599 God's law. 00:57:55.279 --> 00:57:55.699 And he said, 00:57:55.759 --> 00:57:56.199 because the Pope 00:57:56.199 --> 00:57:56.980 can kill us, man. 00:57:57.039 --> 00:57:57.259 Like, 00:57:57.319 --> 00:57:58.219 we need to obey him. 00:57:59.219 --> 00:57:59.400 And, 00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:00.739 and Tyndale was just like, 00:58:00.819 --> 00:58:01.000 are you, 00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:01.759 you know, 00:58:02.219 --> 00:58:03.159 this is what he said 00:58:03.159 --> 00:58:04.059 back to that guy. 00:58:04.059 --> 00:58:07.219 I defy the Pope 00:58:07.219 --> 00:58:08.719 and all his laws. 00:58:08.799 --> 00:58:09.320 And if God 00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:10.440 would spare my life 00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:11.840 these many years, 00:58:11.900 --> 00:58:13.019 I will make it possible 00:58:13.019 --> 00:58:14.340 for the boy 00:58:14.340 --> 00:58:15.440 who drives the plow 00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:16.159 to know as much 00:58:16.159 --> 00:58:17.119 scripture as you do. 00:58:17.779 --> 00:58:18.480 That's like what 00:58:18.480 --> 00:58:19.259 he told the guy. 00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:19.579 So, 00:58:20.299 --> 00:58:21.199 so he did. 00:58:21.259 --> 00:58:22.219 He set out on this, 00:58:22.579 --> 00:58:23.579 this journey 00:58:23.579 --> 00:58:25.380 to translate 00:58:25.380 --> 00:58:25.920 the Bible 00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:26.659 into English. 00:58:28.799 --> 00:58:29.699 He developed 00:58:29.699 --> 00:58:31.059 like a translating strategy 00:58:31.059 --> 00:58:32.179 and avoiding detection. 00:58:32.699 --> 00:58:33.679 And he was on, 00:58:33.679 --> 00:58:34.359 he was hunted 00:58:34.359 --> 00:58:35.359 for nine years. 00:58:35.799 --> 00:58:36.539 He imagined that 00:58:36.539 --> 00:58:37.079 like just going, 00:58:37.279 --> 00:58:38.259 living like a nomad, 00:58:38.839 --> 00:58:39.839 going from place to place, 00:58:39.960 --> 00:58:41.460 translating the Bible. 00:58:41.779 --> 00:58:43.339 And he was using, 00:58:43.579 --> 00:58:44.859 let's see, 00:58:45.940 --> 00:58:46.779 he was using, 00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:48.199 I'll go back, 00:58:48.339 --> 00:58:48.559 sorry. 00:58:49.480 --> 00:58:50.559 He was using Greek 00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:51.519 and Hebrew texts, 00:58:52.319 --> 00:58:53.299 Latin texts. 00:58:53.419 --> 00:58:53.679 He was, 00:58:53.759 --> 00:58:54.679 he had all these different 00:58:54.679 --> 00:58:56.139 things to use 00:58:56.139 --> 00:58:56.839 at his disposal 00:58:56.839 --> 00:58:57.419 to come up with 00:58:57.419 --> 00:58:58.440 the accurate translation 00:58:58.440 --> 00:58:59.879 of the New Testament. 00:58:59.880 --> 00:59:01.960 and this is something 00:59:01.960 --> 00:59:02.660 that he said, 00:59:03.460 --> 00:59:04.320 he was talking about 00:59:04.320 --> 00:59:05.099 how Rome has, 00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:06.260 Rome wants to like 00:59:06.260 --> 00:59:06.780 keep the scripture 00:59:06.780 --> 00:59:07.780 away from people. 00:59:08.260 --> 00:59:08.900 He said, 00:59:08.980 --> 00:59:09.820 they have ordained 00:59:09.820 --> 00:59:10.660 that no man 00:59:10.660 --> 00:59:12.280 shall look on the scripture 00:59:12.280 --> 00:59:14.200 until he be nozzled 00:59:14.200 --> 00:59:15.099 in heathen learning 00:59:15.099 --> 00:59:16.300 for eight or nine years 00:59:16.300 --> 00:59:17.500 and armed with 00:59:17.500 --> 00:59:18.340 false principles 00:59:18.340 --> 00:59:19.880 with which he can 00:59:19.880 --> 00:59:21.440 not understand 00:59:21.440 --> 00:59:21.920 the scripture. 00:59:22.140 --> 00:59:22.360 So, 00:59:22.900 --> 00:59:23.579 they immerse him 00:59:23.579 --> 00:59:24.480 so much in Roman 00:59:24.480 --> 00:59:25.579 teaching and Roman 00:59:25.579 --> 00:59:26.000 doctrine, 00:59:26.119 --> 00:59:26.539 but when they get 00:59:26.539 --> 00:59:26.980 the scriptures, 00:59:27.099 --> 00:59:27.320 they don't, 00:59:27.960 --> 00:59:28.400 most of them 00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:28.940 can't really see 00:59:28.940 --> 00:59:29.460 the difference. 00:59:31.200 --> 00:59:32.280 Luther saw the difference 00:59:32.280 --> 00:59:33.179 and he said, 00:59:33.300 --> 00:59:33.720 this isn't, 00:59:34.059 --> 00:59:35.000 this isn't true. 00:59:35.900 --> 00:59:36.139 So, 00:59:37.099 --> 00:59:37.460 oops, 00:59:37.740 --> 00:59:37.960 man, 00:59:39.760 --> 00:59:40.300 what I'll do, 00:59:43.400 --> 00:59:44.079 all right, 00:59:44.880 --> 00:59:46.780 told you, 00:59:47.019 --> 00:59:48.900 eventually he finished 00:59:48.900 --> 00:59:49.500 the translation 00:59:49.500 --> 00:59:50.179 of the New Testament. 00:59:51.019 --> 00:59:51.800 He went to Germany 00:59:51.800 --> 00:59:52.700 and he met with Luther 00:59:52.700 --> 00:59:54.340 and how you say that 00:59:54.340 --> 00:59:54.900 is bumps, 00:59:55.079 --> 00:59:55.679 kind of sounds, 00:59:56.019 --> 00:59:56.659 not worms, 00:59:56.920 --> 00:59:57.579 but bumps, 00:59:57.579 --> 00:59:59.019 returning, 00:59:59.239 --> 00:59:59.900 returned to England 00:59:59.900 --> 01:00:00.940 with 6,000 copies 01:00:00.940 --> 01:00:01.599 of the New Testament. 01:00:03.079 --> 01:00:03.480 Eventually, 01:00:03.779 --> 01:00:05.400 he was betrayed 01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:06.119 by a friend 01:00:06.119 --> 01:00:06.799 for money, 01:00:07.299 --> 01:00:07.719 caught, 01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:08.500 and he was tried 01:00:08.500 --> 01:00:09.279 and he was executed. 01:00:10.259 --> 01:00:11.500 And he got on 01:00:11.500 --> 01:00:12.579 Henry's bad side 01:00:12.579 --> 01:00:14.000 because he told Henry, 01:00:14.579 --> 01:00:15.500 sorry, 01:00:15.619 --> 01:00:15.819 bro, 01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:16.719 scripture just says 01:00:16.719 --> 01:00:17.519 that this isn't good 01:00:17.519 --> 01:00:18.139 for you to divorce 01:00:18.139 --> 01:00:18.619 your wife, 01:00:18.980 --> 01:00:19.340 you know? 01:00:19.860 --> 01:00:20.420 And so Henry 01:00:20.420 --> 01:00:20.940 didn't really, 01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:21.719 Henry had it out 01:00:21.719 --> 01:00:22.059 for him, 01:00:22.119 --> 01:00:22.719 Rome had it out 01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:23.099 for him, 01:00:23.639 --> 01:00:24.099 but eventually 01:00:24.099 --> 01:00:25.019 he was executed 01:00:25.019 --> 01:00:27.699 and he was strangled 01:00:27.699 --> 01:00:28.239 and then he was 01:00:28.239 --> 01:00:29.599 burned at the stake. 01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:32.339 What an awesome guy, 01:00:32.480 --> 01:00:34.000 like just that desire 01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:34.839 to get like the word 01:00:34.839 --> 01:00:35.259 of God 01:00:35.259 --> 01:00:36.139 in people's hands. 01:00:38.639 --> 01:00:39.980 So later on, 01:00:40.139 --> 01:00:40.480 a guy named 01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:41.299 Miles Coverdell, 01:00:41.380 --> 01:00:41.819 he's a really 01:00:41.819 --> 01:00:43.139 handsome guy. 01:00:46.420 --> 01:00:46.819 Eventually, 01:00:46.980 --> 01:00:47.619 Henry decided, 01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:48.219 you know what? 01:00:48.219 --> 01:00:49.899 to make my break 01:00:49.899 --> 01:00:51.419 final with the 01:00:51.419 --> 01:00:51.980 Church of Rome, 01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:52.919 what we really need 01:00:52.919 --> 01:00:53.639 is my own, 01:00:53.799 --> 01:00:55.019 our own English Bible 01:00:55.019 --> 01:00:56.279 that I oversee 01:00:56.279 --> 01:00:56.819 and, you know, 01:00:56.839 --> 01:00:57.299 this will be like 01:00:57.299 --> 01:00:57.779 our final, 01:00:58.579 --> 01:00:58.859 you know, 01:00:58.939 --> 01:00:59.379 the final, 01:00:59.859 --> 01:01:00.419 the trial breaks 01:01:00.419 --> 01:01:01.099 the camel's back 01:01:01.099 --> 01:01:01.639 to his day. 01:01:02.379 --> 01:01:03.779 So he hired this guy 01:01:03.779 --> 01:01:05.439 because he looked bored 01:01:05.439 --> 01:01:06.539 and said, 01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:08.739 he told him, 01:01:09.559 --> 01:01:09.719 you know, 01:01:09.779 --> 01:01:10.279 a translator, 01:01:10.539 --> 01:01:11.019 what do you use 01:01:11.019 --> 01:01:11.919 to translate from? 01:01:12.480 --> 01:01:12.859 Look at that, 01:01:12.919 --> 01:01:13.599 the Latin Vulgate 01:01:13.599 --> 01:01:14.019 and what do you 01:01:14.019 --> 01:01:14.439 intend to do 01:01:14.439 --> 01:01:14.939 with the New Testament? 01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:16.199 He was like, 01:01:16.319 --> 01:01:17.599 I can't do a better 01:01:17.599 --> 01:01:18.279 job than this guy. 01:01:18.360 --> 01:01:18.639 That's kind of 01:01:18.639 --> 01:01:19.139 what he was thinking. 01:01:19.239 --> 01:01:19.940 So he tried to like 01:01:19.940 --> 01:01:21.819 take some from that, 01:01:22.019 --> 01:01:22.360 you know, 01:01:22.420 --> 01:01:24.099 and so that's like 01:01:24.099 --> 01:01:25.119 what he used to translate 01:01:25.119 --> 01:01:25.639 and it was called 01:01:25.639 --> 01:01:26.500 the Coverdell Bible 01:01:26.500 --> 01:01:28.259 and people could come 01:01:28.259 --> 01:01:29.079 to inside of, 01:01:29.239 --> 01:01:29.659 you know, 01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:31.099 the church 01:01:31.099 --> 01:01:31.839 and read it. 01:01:32.139 --> 01:01:33.259 It was just chained up 01:01:33.259 --> 01:01:33.779 so not everybody 01:01:33.779 --> 01:01:34.799 had a copy of it yet. 01:01:35.579 --> 01:01:36.199 So that was 01:01:36.199 --> 01:01:36.980 the Coverdell Bible. 01:01:39.940 --> 01:01:40.299 Eventually, 01:01:41.219 --> 01:01:43.460 Edward was the successor 01:01:43.460 --> 01:01:44.179 to Henry 01:01:44.179 --> 01:01:44.920 when Henry died. 01:01:45.619 --> 01:01:46.480 He tried to keep 01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:47.079 the Church of England 01:01:47.079 --> 01:01:47.500 going. 01:01:47.599 --> 01:01:48.440 A little bit more. 01:01:49.460 --> 01:01:50.360 He wasn't the leader 01:01:50.360 --> 01:01:51.039 Henry was 01:01:51.039 --> 01:01:52.119 and so when he died, 01:01:53.500 --> 01:01:54.639 Henry's first daughter 01:01:54.639 --> 01:01:55.940 from Catherine, 01:01:56.460 --> 01:01:57.319 Mary Tudor, 01:01:58.159 --> 01:01:59.420 became queen 01:01:59.420 --> 01:01:59.980 over England 01:01:59.980 --> 01:02:01.460 and she was a 01:02:01.460 --> 01:02:02.400 really devout 01:02:02.400 --> 01:02:03.319 Roman Catholic 01:02:03.319 --> 01:02:04.860 and like her mom, 01:02:05.039 --> 01:02:05.339 Catherine. 01:02:06.219 --> 01:02:07.360 And so she tried 01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:09.259 to bring Catholicism 01:02:09.259 --> 01:02:10.940 back to England 01:02:10.940 --> 01:02:12.679 and she did it, 01:02:12.679 --> 01:02:12.900 you know, 01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:13.480 militantly, 01:02:13.659 --> 01:02:14.980 like arresting people, 01:02:15.900 --> 01:02:16.559 imprisoning them, 01:02:16.559 --> 01:02:17.719 executing the leaders. 01:02:17.719 --> 01:02:20.099 She is recorded 01:02:20.099 --> 01:02:21.699 and she burned 01:02:21.699 --> 01:02:22.579 around 300 01:02:22.579 --> 01:02:23.980 of England's 01:02:23.980 --> 01:02:24.820 like top scholars 01:02:24.820 --> 01:02:25.639 and theologians 01:02:25.639 --> 01:02:25.980 that were 01:02:25.980 --> 01:02:27.000 at this time 01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:27.940 teaching and 01:02:27.940 --> 01:02:29.920 preaching the Word of God. 01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:31.420 so, 01:02:31.639 --> 01:02:33.200 you know, 01:02:33.300 --> 01:02:33.639 it was, 01:02:33.860 --> 01:02:34.980 that's where you get 01:02:34.980 --> 01:02:35.840 Bloody Mary from, 01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:36.500 obviously. 01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:39.440 And, 01:02:39.519 --> 01:02:41.019 let's see, 01:02:41.099 --> 01:02:42.180 moving on here. 01:02:42.860 --> 01:02:43.760 This was one guy 01:02:43.760 --> 01:02:44.700 named John Rogers 01:02:44.700 --> 01:02:46.880 who was a Bible scholar 01:02:46.880 --> 01:02:47.519 and translator. 01:02:47.680 --> 01:02:48.720 He tried to continue 01:02:48.720 --> 01:02:50.099 William Tyndale's 01:02:50.099 --> 01:02:51.139 Old Testament 01:02:51.139 --> 01:02:53.000 and he had started 01:02:53.000 --> 01:02:54.519 and eventually 01:02:54.519 --> 01:02:55.279 he was caught 01:02:55.279 --> 01:02:56.059 and he refused 01:02:56.059 --> 01:02:56.559 to kind of like 01:02:56.559 --> 01:02:57.059 throw away 01:02:57.059 --> 01:02:57.980 like what he believed 01:02:57.980 --> 01:02:59.519 and his phrase 01:02:59.519 --> 01:03:00.199 was that 01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:03.179 which I have preached 01:03:03.179 --> 01:03:03.779 I will seal 01:03:03.779 --> 01:03:04.480 in my blood. 01:03:05.679 --> 01:03:05.940 And, 01:03:06.059 --> 01:03:07.519 so he didn't recant. 01:03:08.059 --> 01:03:08.799 He told the people 01:03:08.799 --> 01:03:09.559 that were about to kill him 01:03:09.559 --> 01:03:09.940 that he would be 01:03:09.940 --> 01:03:10.779 praying for them 01:03:10.779 --> 01:03:11.719 and praying 01:03:11.719 --> 01:03:12.480 for their salvation 01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:13.960 so he kind of 01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:14.659 held it together 01:03:14.659 --> 01:03:15.519 to the very end 01:03:15.519 --> 01:03:16.139 so to say. 01:03:17.099 --> 01:03:17.500 Eventually, 01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:18.299 he was put to death 01:03:18.299 --> 01:03:19.039 and this is where 01:03:19.039 --> 01:03:19.639 you can go 01:03:19.639 --> 01:03:20.659 in England 01:03:20.659 --> 01:03:21.179 to see where 01:03:21.179 --> 01:03:22.639 that actually happened. 01:03:25.980 --> 01:03:27.039 The Geneva Bible. 01:03:27.159 --> 01:03:27.960 During this time 01:03:27.960 --> 01:03:28.759 when Bloody Mary 01:03:28.759 --> 01:03:29.359 was going on 01:03:29.359 --> 01:03:30.279 a lot of English 01:03:30.279 --> 01:03:32.779 citizens fled 01:03:32.779 --> 01:03:33.379 to Geneva, 01:03:33.559 --> 01:03:33.879 Switzerland 01:03:33.879 --> 01:03:35.500 which was a safe haven 01:03:35.500 --> 01:03:37.239 for Protestants 01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:37.839 at this time. 01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:39.079 And, 01:03:39.079 --> 01:03:40.179 that's where 01:03:40.179 --> 01:03:41.219 John Calvin was 01:03:41.219 --> 01:03:42.719 and a lot of other 01:03:42.719 --> 01:03:43.879 awesome reformers 01:03:43.879 --> 01:03:44.139 were there 01:03:44.139 --> 01:03:45.759 teaching the scripture. 01:03:46.500 --> 01:03:47.039 A lot of them 01:03:47.039 --> 01:03:47.659 fled there 01:03:47.659 --> 01:03:48.179 and eventually 01:03:48.179 --> 01:03:49.119 they translated 01:03:49.119 --> 01:03:50.619 that made 01:03:50.619 --> 01:03:51.440 the Geneva Bible 01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:52.819 and they used 01:03:52.819 --> 01:03:53.420 Greek and Hebrew 01:03:53.420 --> 01:03:53.940 text, 01:03:54.859 --> 01:03:55.900 Tyndale's translation 01:03:55.900 --> 01:03:57.880 and Miles Coverdale's 01:03:57.880 --> 01:03:58.359 translation. 01:03:59.239 --> 01:03:59.980 So they had a lot 01:03:59.980 --> 01:04:00.599 of different sources 01:04:00.599 --> 01:04:01.079 to come up with 01:04:01.079 --> 01:04:01.839 a really good 01:04:01.839 --> 01:04:03.380 accurate translation. 01:04:03.659 --> 01:04:04.199 It was the first 01:04:04.199 --> 01:04:05.259 Bible that contained 01:04:05.259 --> 01:04:06.579 study notes, 01:04:06.980 --> 01:04:08.299 separated chapters 01:04:08.299 --> 01:04:08.779 and verses 01:04:08.779 --> 01:04:09.519 so that's where 01:04:09.519 --> 01:04:10.799 we get that from 01:04:10.799 --> 01:04:11.539 is a study Bible. 01:04:11.739 --> 01:04:12.239 You can actually 01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:13.199 buy them today. 01:04:13.980 --> 01:04:14.759 It's really hard 01:04:14.759 --> 01:04:15.139 to read 01:04:15.139 --> 01:04:16.319 because they don't 01:04:16.319 --> 01:04:17.039 speak that kind 01:04:17.039 --> 01:04:17.699 of English anymore. 01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:18.000 01:04:18.699 --> 01:04:19.960 William Shakespeare, 01:04:20.920 --> 01:04:22.099 I believe he actually, 01:04:22.319 --> 01:04:24.199 he quotes 01:04:24.199 --> 01:04:25.000 the Geneva Bible 01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:26.219 around 5,000 times 01:04:26.219 --> 01:04:26.799 in his plays 01:04:26.799 --> 01:04:28.159 and his stories. 01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:30.199 The Geneva Bible 01:04:30.199 --> 01:04:30.879 was the Bible 01:04:30.879 --> 01:04:31.619 that the pilgrims 01:04:31.619 --> 01:04:32.139 brought over 01:04:32.139 --> 01:04:32.859 to America. 01:04:33.559 --> 01:04:34.139 John Bunyan 01:04:34.139 --> 01:04:34.460 who wrote 01:04:34.460 --> 01:04:35.199 Pilgrim's Progress. 01:04:36.079 --> 01:04:36.779 This was all 01:04:36.779 --> 01:04:38.819 from the Geneva Bible. 01:04:38.820 --> 01:04:44.780 This was the 01:04:44.780 --> 01:04:45.440 preface to the 01:04:45.440 --> 01:04:45.920 Geneva Bible. 01:04:46.019 --> 01:04:46.580 Listen to this. 01:04:47.480 --> 01:04:48.440 The Bible is the 01:04:48.440 --> 01:04:49.340 light of our past, 01:04:49.420 --> 01:04:50.120 the key to the 01:04:50.120 --> 01:04:50.820 kingdom of heaven, 01:04:51.480 --> 01:04:52.340 our comfort and 01:04:52.340 --> 01:04:52.800 affliction, 01:04:53.600 --> 01:04:54.660 our shield and sword 01:04:54.660 --> 01:04:55.300 against Satan, 01:04:56.059 --> 01:04:56.840 the school of all 01:04:56.840 --> 01:04:57.220 wisdom, 01:04:57.960 --> 01:04:58.900 the mirror in which 01:04:58.900 --> 01:04:59.840 we behold God's 01:04:59.840 --> 01:05:00.220 face, 01:05:00.860 --> 01:05:01.660 the testimony of 01:05:01.660 --> 01:05:02.140 his favor, 01:05:02.720 --> 01:05:03.600 and the only food 01:05:03.600 --> 01:05:04.180 and nourishment 01:05:04.180 --> 01:05:05.019 of our souls. 01:05:06.100 --> 01:05:08.320 That's an awesome 01:05:08.320 --> 01:05:08.700 statement. 01:05:08.820 --> 01:05:09.400 about the word. 01:05:10.220 --> 01:05:10.539 So, 01:05:10.660 --> 01:05:11.140 eventually, 01:05:11.380 --> 01:05:12.920 Mary died. 01:05:13.120 --> 01:05:14.000 She had no heir 01:05:14.000 --> 01:05:14.820 to follow. 01:05:15.780 --> 01:05:16.059 And, 01:05:16.140 --> 01:05:17.880 back in Henry's 01:05:17.880 --> 01:05:18.680 wife's days, 01:05:18.760 --> 01:05:18.900 you know, 01:05:18.960 --> 01:05:19.539 who came after 01:05:19.539 --> 01:05:19.980 Catherine, 01:05:20.500 --> 01:05:20.800 was, 01:05:21.300 --> 01:05:21.940 anybody know? 01:05:23.380 --> 01:05:24.000 There's even a 01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:24.720 TV show about 01:05:24.720 --> 01:05:24.920 this. 01:05:24.980 --> 01:05:25.180 Come on, 01:05:25.220 --> 01:05:25.519 guys. 01:05:25.720 --> 01:05:26.220 It's not really 01:05:26.220 --> 01:05:26.880 that guy. 01:05:26.940 --> 01:05:27.240 You shouldn't 01:05:27.240 --> 01:05:27.640 watch it. 01:05:28.300 --> 01:05:28.460 But, 01:05:29.680 --> 01:05:30.880 Anne Boleyn 01:05:30.880 --> 01:05:31.840 is who he 01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:32.760 married after 01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:34.400 Catherine. 01:05:34.620 --> 01:05:35.140 And he had 01:05:35.140 --> 01:05:35.660 a daughter with 01:05:35.660 --> 01:05:35.900 her. 01:05:36.480 --> 01:05:37.140 He had her 01:05:37.140 --> 01:05:37.880 and her 01:05:37.880 --> 01:05:38.400 kind of like 01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:39.059 this series 01:05:39.059 --> 01:05:39.480 of wives 01:05:39.480 --> 01:05:39.980 started going 01:05:39.980 --> 01:05:40.220 on. 01:05:40.840 --> 01:05:41.019 But, 01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:41.980 Elizabeth was 01:05:41.980 --> 01:05:42.720 her child. 01:05:43.740 --> 01:05:43.960 And, 01:05:44.079 --> 01:05:45.440 she assumed 01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:45.800 the throne 01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:46.119 because she 01:05:46.119 --> 01:05:46.500 was the only 01:05:46.500 --> 01:05:47.119 other right 01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:47.500 to heir, 01:05:47.680 --> 01:05:48.039 had any 01:05:48.039 --> 01:05:48.720 kind of 01:05:48.720 --> 01:05:49.420 royal blood. 01:05:50.300 --> 01:05:50.660 And, 01:05:50.820 --> 01:05:52.780 she did 01:05:52.780 --> 01:05:53.539 lean more 01:05:53.539 --> 01:05:54.240 with Protestant 01:05:54.240 --> 01:05:54.860 theology. 01:05:56.099 --> 01:05:56.619 I don't 01:05:56.619 --> 01:05:57.079 really know 01:05:57.079 --> 01:05:57.480 if she was, 01:05:57.700 --> 01:05:57.860 I mean, 01:05:57.900 --> 01:05:58.539 nobody does, 01:05:59.240 --> 01:05:59.740 if she was 01:05:59.740 --> 01:06:00.320 really a believer 01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:00.880 or not. 01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:01.420 but, 01:06:01.420 --> 01:06:01.440 but, 01:06:01.440 --> 01:06:03.320 her main 01:06:03.320 --> 01:06:03.720 goal when 01:06:03.720 --> 01:06:04.280 she became 01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:05.440 queen was, 01:06:05.559 --> 01:06:06.160 I'm tired of 01:06:06.160 --> 01:06:06.500 us just 01:06:06.500 --> 01:06:07.720 killing each 01:06:07.720 --> 01:06:07.940 other. 01:06:08.500 --> 01:06:08.860 Why can't 01:06:08.860 --> 01:06:09.220 we all get 01:06:09.220 --> 01:06:09.519 along? 01:06:09.720 --> 01:06:10.400 She wanted 01:06:10.400 --> 01:06:10.680 to really 01:06:10.680 --> 01:06:12.039 bring more 01:06:12.039 --> 01:06:12.700 of a national 01:06:12.700 --> 01:06:13.619 identity to 01:06:13.619 --> 01:06:13.900 England. 01:06:14.460 --> 01:06:14.559 And, 01:06:15.180 --> 01:06:15.640 so what she 01:06:15.640 --> 01:06:16.280 did was she 01:06:16.280 --> 01:06:16.700 said, 01:06:17.300 --> 01:06:17.720 she made 01:06:17.720 --> 01:06:18.039 like some 01:06:18.039 --> 01:06:18.640 concessions. 01:06:18.740 --> 01:06:19.059 She said, 01:06:19.140 --> 01:06:19.360 okay, 01:06:20.260 --> 01:06:20.599 we're going 01:06:20.599 --> 01:06:21.079 to have, 01:06:21.900 --> 01:06:22.240 we're all 01:06:22.240 --> 01:06:22.420 going to 01:06:22.420 --> 01:06:22.800 break away 01:06:22.800 --> 01:06:23.220 from Rome. 01:06:23.320 --> 01:06:23.519 That was 01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:24.240 called the 01:06:24.240 --> 01:06:24.559 act of 01:06:24.559 --> 01:06:25.200 uniformity. 01:06:26.140 --> 01:06:26.460 We're going 01:06:26.460 --> 01:06:26.740 to break 01:06:26.740 --> 01:06:27.059 away from 01:06:27.059 --> 01:06:27.260 Rome. 01:06:27.320 --> 01:06:27.500 We're going 01:06:27.500 --> 01:06:27.660 to come 01:06:27.660 --> 01:06:28.019 back to 01:06:28.019 --> 01:06:28.159 the 01:06:28.159 --> 01:06:28.360 Church 01:06:28.360 --> 01:06:28.519 of 01:06:28.519 --> 01:06:28.759 England. 01:06:30.099 --> 01:06:30.599 I'm going 01:06:30.599 --> 01:06:30.780 to be 01:06:30.780 --> 01:06:31.159 the head 01:06:31.159 --> 01:06:31.599 of this. 01:06:32.519 --> 01:06:32.840 And, 01:06:32.940 --> 01:06:33.280 we're going 01:06:33.280 --> 01:06:33.659 to have, 01:06:33.780 --> 01:06:34.119 basically, 01:06:34.440 --> 01:06:34.820 this is all 01:06:34.820 --> 01:06:35.320 paraphrased, 01:06:35.860 --> 01:06:36.219 they kept 01:06:36.219 --> 01:06:36.639 Protestant 01:06:36.639 --> 01:06:37.239 theology. 01:06:38.340 --> 01:06:38.699 Also, 01:06:39.019 --> 01:06:39.340 really, 01:06:39.460 --> 01:06:39.759 it was just 01:06:39.759 --> 01:06:40.179 in essence 01:06:40.179 --> 01:06:40.840 Calvinism, 01:06:40.980 --> 01:06:41.300 which was, 01:06:42.039 --> 01:06:42.259 you know, 01:06:42.259 --> 01:06:42.759 being taught 01:06:42.759 --> 01:06:45.059 from Geneva. 01:06:45.920 --> 01:06:46.759 Just summing 01:06:46.759 --> 01:06:47.219 up that, 01:06:47.320 --> 01:06:47.920 salvation by 01:06:47.920 --> 01:06:48.519 grace alone 01:06:48.519 --> 01:06:49.239 through faith alone. 01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:50.440 But, 01:06:50.599 --> 01:06:51.360 they kept 01:06:51.360 --> 01:06:52.219 all the pomp 01:06:52.219 --> 01:06:53.500 and ritual 01:06:53.500 --> 01:06:55.719 and robes 01:06:55.719 --> 01:06:56.219 and things 01:06:56.219 --> 01:06:56.719 like that 01:06:56.719 --> 01:06:57.179 that looked 01:06:57.179 --> 01:06:57.480 like the 01:06:57.480 --> 01:06:57.639 Roman 01:06:57.639 --> 01:06:58.099 mass. 01:06:58.779 --> 01:06:58.879 So, 01:06:58.960 --> 01:06:59.299 that's why 01:06:59.299 --> 01:06:59.519 if you 01:06:59.519 --> 01:07:00.099 go to an 01:07:00.099 --> 01:07:00.579 Anglican 01:07:00.579 --> 01:07:01.339 church today, 01:07:01.839 --> 01:07:02.299 that's why 01:07:02.299 --> 01:07:02.819 it's really 01:07:02.819 --> 01:07:03.980 liturgical 01:07:03.980 --> 01:07:04.599 and formal. 01:07:04.759 --> 01:07:05.039 That's why 01:07:05.039 --> 01:07:05.539 they have 01:07:05.539 --> 01:07:06.420 the robes 01:07:06.420 --> 01:07:06.759 and things 01:07:06.759 --> 01:07:07.239 like that. 01:07:07.739 --> 01:07:07.839 So, 01:07:07.920 --> 01:07:08.179 this was 01:07:08.179 --> 01:07:10.839 the model 01:07:10.839 --> 01:07:11.319 we have 01:07:11.319 --> 01:07:11.519 in the 01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:11.900 Anglican 01:07:11.900 --> 01:07:12.420 church today, 01:07:12.500 --> 01:07:12.779 the Church 01:07:12.779 --> 01:07:13.179 of England. 01:07:14.119 --> 01:07:14.519 So, 01:07:14.659 --> 01:07:15.400 she authorized 01:07:15.400 --> 01:07:15.879 the Geneva 01:07:15.879 --> 01:07:17.179 Bible for 01:07:17.179 --> 01:07:17.480 the Church 01:07:17.480 --> 01:07:17.799 of England. 01:07:18.019 --> 01:07:18.159 So, 01:07:18.779 --> 01:07:19.079 she's like, 01:07:19.119 --> 01:07:19.460 this is going 01:07:19.460 --> 01:07:19.900 to be our 01:07:19.900 --> 01:07:20.679 Bible so 01:07:20.679 --> 01:07:20.920 everybody 01:07:20.920 --> 01:07:21.219 can have 01:07:21.219 --> 01:07:21.639 a copy. 01:07:22.859 --> 01:07:22.980 So, 01:07:23.059 --> 01:07:24.759 this was huge. 01:07:24.839 --> 01:07:25.299 Her reign 01:07:25.299 --> 01:07:25.639 is called 01:07:25.639 --> 01:07:26.099 the Golden 01:07:26.099 --> 01:07:26.579 Age of 01:07:26.579 --> 01:07:26.779 England 01:07:26.780 --> 01:07:27.280 because 01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:28.220 it went 01:07:28.220 --> 01:07:28.600 from a 01:07:28.600 --> 01:07:28.800 really 01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:29.620 impoverished, 01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:31.000 unorganized, 01:07:31.120 --> 01:07:31.700 messy country 01:07:31.700 --> 01:07:32.420 to almost 01:07:32.420 --> 01:07:32.760 a world 01:07:32.760 --> 01:07:33.400 power by 01:07:33.400 --> 01:07:33.740 the time 01:07:33.740 --> 01:07:34.560 of the 01:07:34.560 --> 01:07:34.860 rain. 01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:36.519 The Spanish 01:07:36.519 --> 01:07:37.019 Armada, 01:07:37.140 --> 01:07:38.000 all that stuff, 01:07:38.240 --> 01:07:38.900 they defeated 01:07:38.900 --> 01:07:39.320 Spain. 01:07:40.240 --> 01:07:41.160 John Knox 01:07:41.160 --> 01:07:42.760 brought the 01:07:42.760 --> 01:07:43.220 Reformation 01:07:43.220 --> 01:07:43.840 to Scotland. 01:07:44.840 --> 01:07:45.440 He has 01:07:45.440 --> 01:07:45.960 an awesome 01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:46.340 beard. 01:07:47.700 --> 01:07:48.240 He outdoes 01:07:48.240 --> 01:07:50.120 everybody. 01:07:50.119 --> 01:07:52.179 I've 01:07:52.179 --> 01:07:52.440 actually 01:07:52.440 --> 01:07:53.559 been to 01:07:53.559 --> 01:07:53.920 Edinburgh 01:07:53.920 --> 01:07:54.339 and I've 01:07:54.339 --> 01:07:54.839 been in 01:07:54.839 --> 01:07:55.199 the house 01:07:55.199 --> 01:07:55.420 that he 01:07:55.420 --> 01:07:55.940 lived in 01:07:55.940 --> 01:07:57.279 and seen 01:07:57.279 --> 01:07:57.819 a lot 01:07:57.819 --> 01:07:58.119 of the 01:07:58.119 --> 01:07:59.639 what was 01:07:59.639 --> 01:07:59.859 that? 01:08:02.679 --> 01:08:03.359 That's a 01:08:03.359 --> 01:08:03.920 picture of the 01:08:03.920 --> 01:08:04.539 Geneva Bible 01:08:04.539 --> 01:08:05.059 that I made 01:08:05.059 --> 01:08:05.339 at his 01:08:05.339 --> 01:08:05.699 house. 01:08:07.779 --> 01:08:08.359 It was 01:08:08.359 --> 01:08:08.779 kind of cool 01:08:08.779 --> 01:08:09.159 to go there. 01:08:09.219 --> 01:08:09.519 I saw 01:08:09.519 --> 01:08:09.900 some of these 01:08:09.900 --> 01:08:10.619 places where 01:08:10.619 --> 01:08:11.659 a lot of 01:08:11.659 --> 01:08:12.039 people were 01:08:12.039 --> 01:08:12.559 martyred and 01:08:12.559 --> 01:08:12.900 beheaded 01:08:12.900 --> 01:08:13.440 for 01:08:13.440 --> 01:08:15.719 believing the 01:08:15.719 --> 01:08:16.079 gospel. 01:08:16.079 --> 01:08:19.779 Presbyterianism, 01:08:20.159 --> 01:08:20.760 that's why 01:08:20.760 --> 01:08:21.819 the main 01:08:21.819 --> 01:08:22.380 denomination 01:08:22.380 --> 01:08:22.880 in Scotland 01:08:22.880 --> 01:08:23.680 today is 01:08:23.680 --> 01:08:24.840 Presbyterianism. 01:08:25.859 --> 01:08:26.100 And, 01:08:26.220 --> 01:08:27.619 again, 01:08:27.779 --> 01:08:28.140 brought the 01:08:28.140 --> 01:08:28.680 Geneva Bible 01:08:28.680 --> 01:08:29.680 back and 01:08:29.680 --> 01:08:29.960 there's a 01:08:29.960 --> 01:08:30.519 law passed 01:08:30.519 --> 01:08:31.000 in Scotland 01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:32.559 in 1579 01:08:32.559 --> 01:08:33.319 requiring every 01:08:33.319 --> 01:08:33.760 household 01:08:33.760 --> 01:08:34.840 sufficient means 01:08:34.840 --> 01:08:35.840 to have a 01:08:35.840 --> 01:08:36.439 copy of the 01:08:36.439 --> 01:08:37.019 Geneva Bible. 01:08:37.880 --> 01:08:38.119 So, 01:08:38.279 --> 01:08:39.059 God's word 01:08:39.059 --> 01:08:39.600 was like 01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:40.600 getting to 01:08:40.600 --> 01:08:41.000 the hands 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:41.399 of people. 01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:41.939 It was just 01:08:41.939 --> 01:08:43.039 an awesome 01:08:43.039 --> 01:08:43.479 time. 01:08:43.699 --> 01:08:43.979 There's all 01:08:43.979 --> 01:08:44.359 kind of other 01:08:44.359 --> 01:08:44.779 things to say 01:08:44.779 --> 01:08:45.159 about this, 01:08:45.239 --> 01:08:45.760 but I'm 01:08:45.760 --> 01:08:47.880 going to 01:08:47.880 --> 01:08:48.199 move on. 01:08:49.400 --> 01:08:50.260 Singing God's 01:08:50.260 --> 01:08:50.560 word. 01:08:51.239 --> 01:08:51.500 All right? 01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:52.039 So, 01:08:52.720 --> 01:08:53.360 I understand 01:08:53.360 --> 01:08:54.980 people were 01:08:54.980 --> 01:08:55.460 just used to 01:08:55.460 --> 01:08:56.100 hear Roman 01:08:56.100 --> 01:08:56.900 teaching and 01:08:56.900 --> 01:08:57.380 it was just 01:08:57.380 --> 01:08:57.940 again more 01:08:57.940 --> 01:08:58.420 like Plato 01:08:58.420 --> 01:08:58.920 and Aristotle 01:08:58.920 --> 01:09:00.400 and had all 01:09:00.400 --> 01:09:00.880 these songs 01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:01.380 they sang 01:09:01.380 --> 01:09:01.600 that were 01:09:01.600 --> 01:09:02.000 in Latin 01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:02.560 that weren't 01:09:02.560 --> 01:09:03.380 really biblical 01:09:03.380 --> 01:09:03.880 a lot of 01:09:03.880 --> 01:09:04.020 them. 01:09:04.780 --> 01:09:05.000 So, 01:09:05.220 --> 01:09:06.480 the people 01:09:06.480 --> 01:09:06.920 in Scotland 01:09:06.920 --> 01:09:07.260 were like 01:09:07.260 --> 01:09:07.680 we're only 01:09:07.680 --> 01:09:07.960 going to 01:09:07.960 --> 01:09:08.220 sing 01:09:08.220 --> 01:09:08.640 scripture. 01:09:09.280 --> 01:09:09.720 That's it. 01:09:09.960 --> 01:09:10.140 We're not 01:09:10.140 --> 01:09:10.320 going to 01:09:10.320 --> 01:09:11.539 sing anything 01:09:11.539 --> 01:09:11.820 else. 01:09:11.860 --> 01:09:12.100 We're only 01:09:12.100 --> 01:09:12.280 going to 01:09:12.280 --> 01:09:12.500 sing 01:09:12.500 --> 01:09:12.840 scripture. 01:09:13.500 --> 01:09:13.739 So, 01:09:13.820 --> 01:09:14.159 they wrote 01:09:14.159 --> 01:09:14.640 the Scottish 01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:15.060 Psalter, 01:09:15.220 --> 01:09:15.560 which is 01:09:15.560 --> 01:09:16.420 a way 01:09:16.420 --> 01:09:16.620 that you 01:09:16.620 --> 01:09:17.200 can sing 01:09:17.200 --> 01:09:18.620 the songs 01:09:18.620 --> 01:09:19.120 out loud. 01:09:19.240 --> 01:09:19.340 Now, 01:09:19.360 --> 01:09:19.580 I don't 01:09:19.580 --> 01:09:20.080 know if 01:09:20.080 --> 01:09:20.440 I got this 01:09:20.440 --> 01:09:20.880 worked out 01:09:20.880 --> 01:09:21.180 less. 01:09:21.860 --> 01:09:22.300 Can you 01:09:22.300 --> 01:09:22.680 hit that? 01:09:22.760 --> 01:09:23.080 Like the 01:09:23.080 --> 01:09:23.300 groove 01:09:23.300 --> 01:09:23.820 shark thing? 01:09:24.500 --> 01:09:24.700 I just 01:09:24.700 --> 01:09:24.920 want you 01:09:24.920 --> 01:09:25.060 to hear 01:09:25.060 --> 01:09:25.320 a piece 01:09:25.320 --> 01:09:25.520 of this. 01:09:25.520 --> 01:09:25.760 I'll tell 01:09:25.760 --> 01:09:25.980 you when 01:09:25.980 --> 01:09:26.340 to stop. 01:09:26.440 --> 01:09:26.780 This is 01:09:26.780 --> 01:09:28.620 Psalm 43 01:09:28.620 --> 01:09:30.620 that they 01:09:30.620 --> 01:09:31.039 were singing. 01:09:32.100 --> 01:09:32.360 It doesn't 01:09:32.360 --> 01:09:32.780 work out. 01:09:32.880 --> 01:09:33.260 It's okay. 01:09:33.260 --> 01:09:40.539 It should 01:09:40.539 --> 01:09:41.020 be on there. 01:09:41.020 --> 01:09:41.119 I'll 01:09:41.119 --> 01:09:41.380 pull it 01:09:41.380 --> 01:09:41.840 up on 01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:42.220 groove 01:09:42.220 --> 01:09:42.500 shark. 01:09:44.500 --> 01:09:45.000 It got 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:45.480 closed. 01:09:47.220 --> 01:09:47.840 Just type 01:09:47.840 --> 01:09:48.420 in Psalms 01:09:48.420 --> 01:09:48.900 of Scotland. 01:09:49.720 --> 01:09:50.400 Psalms of 01:09:50.400 --> 01:09:50.760 Scotland. 01:09:52.039 --> 01:09:52.480 Then go 01:09:52.480 --> 01:09:53.820 to Psalm 01:09:53.820 --> 01:09:54.340 43. 01:09:55.780 --> 01:09:56.239 But this 01:09:56.239 --> 01:09:56.600 is what it 01:09:56.600 --> 01:09:56.860 would have 01:09:56.860 --> 01:09:57.579 sounded like. 01:09:59.180 --> 01:09:59.699 Kind of. 01:09:59.760 --> 01:10:00.159 Minus the 01:10:00.159 --> 01:10:00.400 organ. 01:10:00.399 --> 01:10:00.460 organ. 01:10:01.299 --> 01:10:01.599 But there 01:10:01.599 --> 01:10:02.019 is an organ 01:10:02.019 --> 01:10:02.420 in this. 01:10:02.599 --> 01:10:03.039 I think it's 01:10:03.039 --> 01:10:03.420 pretty cool. 01:10:03.500 --> 01:10:03.719 They're just 01:10:03.719 --> 01:10:04.159 like singing 01:10:04.159 --> 01:10:04.599 the scripture. 01:10:06.719 --> 01:10:07.199 Any day 01:10:07.199 --> 01:10:07.460 now. 01:10:12.199 --> 01:10:12.759 I'd probably 01:10:12.759 --> 01:10:13.179 be in the 01:10:13.179 --> 01:10:13.599 highlands. 01:10:13.719 --> 01:10:14.139 Probably not 01:10:14.139 --> 01:10:14.500 down in 01:10:14.500 --> 01:10:14.839 Edinburgh 01:10:14.839 --> 01:10:15.159 though. 01:10:16.159 --> 01:10:16.339 Yeah. 01:10:17.019 --> 01:10:17.460 That would 01:10:17.460 --> 01:10:17.839 be cool. 01:10:18.599 --> 01:10:18.879 I like 01:10:18.879 --> 01:10:19.599 bagpipes. 01:10:21.019 --> 01:10:21.319 I thought 01:10:21.319 --> 01:10:21.539 I'd wear 01:10:21.539 --> 01:10:21.920 my kilt 01:10:21.920 --> 01:10:22.219 tonight. 01:10:22.319 --> 01:10:22.500 I thought 01:10:22.500 --> 01:10:22.639 y'all 01:10:22.639 --> 01:10:22.920 be so 01:10:22.920 --> 01:10:23.399 distracted. 01:10:28.319 --> 01:10:28.839 You can't 01:10:28.839 --> 01:10:29.279 hear it 01:10:29.279 --> 01:10:29.679 that way. 01:10:30.399 --> 01:10:30.839 a 01:10:30.839 --> 01:10:32.519 bagpipes. 01:10:32.519 --> 01:10:32.519 01:10:32.519 --> 01:10:32.519 01:10:32.519 --> 01:10:32.519 01:10:32.519 --> 01:10:32.519 01:10:32.519 --> 01:10:32.519 01:10:32.519 --> 01:10:32.519 01:10:32.519 --> 01:10:32.519 01:10:32.519 --> 01:10:32.519 01:10:32.519 --> 01:10:32.519 01:10:32.519 --> 01:10:32.519 01:10:32.519 --> 01:10:32.519 01:10:32.519 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need to do. 01:11:04.420 --> 01:11:05.539 Yeah, we'll move on. 01:11:05.619 --> 01:11:06.759 That's kind of like what it sounded like. 01:11:06.779 --> 01:11:09.659 It was just them singing, you know, God's Word out loud. 01:11:10.039 --> 01:11:10.699 Really cool. 01:11:11.339 --> 01:11:13.420 I mean, a new idea, you know, to them. 01:11:15.239 --> 01:11:16.859 Puritans, you can't leave them out of this. 01:11:19.339 --> 01:11:20.139 Awesome guys. 01:11:20.219 --> 01:11:22.899 Guys who really understood the Bible like you would not believe. 01:11:22.899 --> 01:11:26.539 They're actually called, historically, the physicians of the soul. 01:11:26.759 --> 01:11:30.319 Like they understood the Scripture is how we live life. 01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:34.399 And if you have an issue, the Scripture is the answer, not this or that. 01:11:35.739 --> 01:11:44.799 The Word of God must be a rule and square whereby we are to frame and fashion all our actions according to the direction received thanks. 01:11:45.579 --> 01:11:49.179 We must do the things we do or leave them undone. 01:11:50.559 --> 01:11:59.779 So, he had the word Puritan from the idea that there were a sect in England that thought there was too much that looked like Rome. 01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:01.460 In the Anglican Church. 01:12:01.539 --> 01:12:03.739 And they said that, you know, we want all that gone. 01:12:03.799 --> 01:12:06.519 We want anything that looks like Rome to be there. 01:12:06.939 --> 01:12:10.759 And the English Civil War, the Cavalier and the Roundheads. 01:12:11.399 --> 01:12:13.379 The Puritans were like in the Roundhead branch. 01:12:13.879 --> 01:12:16.119 The Cavaliers were Charles I. 01:12:17.059 --> 01:12:17.920 I don't get into all that. 01:12:18.259 --> 01:12:18.500 Sorry. 01:12:18.500 --> 01:12:21.260 But the Puritans were really huge on the Word. 01:12:21.359 --> 01:12:23.119 I'll go and definitely read some of them. 01:12:23.220 --> 01:12:23.840 King James. 01:12:24.680 --> 01:12:29.140 The Bible that Jesus himself wrote, which a lot of people think that. 01:12:31.460 --> 01:12:32.880 How did this come about? 01:12:32.880 --> 01:12:40.100 Eventually, James I came from Scotland because there wasn't a legitimate heir from the throne of England. 01:12:40.220 --> 01:12:42.480 And he was the closest they had. 01:12:42.520 --> 01:12:43.940 So, he actually became the king of England. 01:12:44.880 --> 01:12:48.819 And over time, some of his counselors began to say, 01:12:49.579 --> 01:12:57.940 Hey, man, the Geneva Bible over here, it says that Christ is the head of the church. 01:12:58.500 --> 01:12:59.339 Not the king. 01:13:00.039 --> 01:13:00.919 Not the queen. 01:13:01.179 --> 01:13:01.799 Not anybody. 01:13:02.339 --> 01:13:04.699 No earthly figure is the head of the church at all. 01:13:04.799 --> 01:13:05.619 Only Christ is. 01:13:06.279 --> 01:13:08.159 So, that diminishes your power, big boy. 01:13:08.239 --> 01:13:09.159 That's kind of what they told him. 01:13:09.319 --> 01:13:10.779 And he was like, oh, man. 01:13:11.219 --> 01:13:11.759 That's not good. 01:13:11.799 --> 01:13:13.539 I don't want to be able to have some authority around here. 01:13:14.099 --> 01:13:17.259 So, he commissioned this translation. 01:13:18.019 --> 01:13:19.579 Which is not a bad translation. 01:13:20.839 --> 01:13:24.839 50 scholars translated from Greek and Hebrew texts in the Geneva Bible. 01:13:24.840 --> 01:13:28.860 But nearly 80% of King James is taken out of the Geneva Bible. 01:13:29.060 --> 01:13:31.860 So, I hate to break it to a lot of people up here in Appalachia, 01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:35.119 but the King James is not the first English translation that ever came out. 01:13:36.680 --> 01:13:39.039 But it's a really good Bible. 01:13:39.159 --> 01:13:40.940 You notice it doesn't have any study notes. 01:13:41.880 --> 01:13:42.039 Right? 01:13:42.100 --> 01:13:46.659 It just has, like, cross-references, but no study notes like the Geneva Bible did. 01:13:47.520 --> 01:13:49.800 So, King James Bible. 01:13:51.680 --> 01:13:52.500 Let's move on. 01:13:52.500 --> 01:14:00.720 So, God has a plan that he's working out and is being really successful at 01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:03.640 to get his word into the hands of every nation. 01:14:03.779 --> 01:14:03.979 Okay? 01:14:04.500 --> 01:14:07.680 And to hear the gospel preached in every tongue, no matter where it is. 01:14:08.420 --> 01:14:17.659 And it's our call, our duty, our joy, like, to take them to God's word, 01:14:17.720 --> 01:14:18.539 no matter where they are. 01:14:18.539 --> 01:14:23.739 So, whenever you sit down and read the word and act like you know, like, where it came from. 01:14:23.800 --> 01:14:26.060 There's a lot more to say about all of this. 01:14:26.199 --> 01:14:30.720 But I just thought these would be some helpful things for you to look at, 01:14:31.220 --> 01:14:33.039 for us to look at together and to know. 01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:36.260 We're past 10 o'clock. 01:14:37.019 --> 01:14:37.939 I understand that. 01:14:38.019 --> 01:14:39.220 But we don't have anything else after this. 01:14:39.260 --> 01:14:40.279 So, I'm going to pray for us. 01:14:40.279 --> 01:14:42.239 Next week, come back. 01:14:43.319 --> 01:14:44.420 Swan Dog up here. 01:14:44.519 --> 01:14:46.179 Dale Swanson is going to come and teach. 01:14:46.219 --> 01:14:47.939 He's going to teach about adoption. 01:14:48.059 --> 01:14:50.059 What it means to be adopted into God's family. 01:14:50.699 --> 01:14:52.479 So, come back and hear him next week. 01:14:52.939 --> 01:14:53.880 It'll be really good. 01:14:55.039 --> 01:14:57.279 If it's not, he just won't teach again. 01:14:57.279 --> 01:15:02.139 So, let me pray for us. 01:15:04.719 --> 01:15:11.300 Holy Father, we are grateful for the word that is in our hands. 01:15:11.300 --> 01:15:17.279 Your word that has been spoken down, passed down throughout hundreds of years. 01:15:17.279 --> 01:15:22.300 And that many men have died to get into our hands. 01:15:22.899 --> 01:15:32.239 And, Lord, how often we neglect and take for granted and just don't think it's of that importance to have the Scripture in our hands. 01:15:33.300 --> 01:15:40.979 I pray that, as Joshua said, that we would meditate upon it day and night. 01:15:41.899 --> 01:15:43.619 That we would do all things in it. 01:15:43.619 --> 01:15:46.920 That we would learn to just love your Scripture. 01:15:48.019 --> 01:15:56.760 See it as the means by which you have given us to know you, to walk with you, to be saved. 01:15:56.880 --> 01:15:58.519 It has everything we need in it, Lord. 01:15:58.519 --> 01:16:01.019 It tells us who you are. 01:16:01.140 --> 01:16:02.079 It tells us who we are. 01:16:02.559 --> 01:16:03.979 And our need for your grace. 01:16:04.819 --> 01:16:09.099 It points to Jesus Christ and what he did on the cross, Lord. 01:16:09.199 --> 01:16:11.760 And this all brings us to a head. 01:16:11.760 --> 01:16:16.539 That the consummation will go and going to come for us. 01:16:16.659 --> 01:16:18.280 And that we're going to be with you in eternity. 01:16:19.940 --> 01:16:21.699 To abide in your presence forever. 01:16:22.640 --> 01:16:24.579 Lord, just help us to treasure your word. 01:16:25.420 --> 01:16:26.119 We love you. 01:16:26.220 --> 01:16:26.860 We give you praise. 01:16:26.960 --> 01:16:27.520 In Christ's name. 01:16:27.680 --> 01:16:27.840 Amen. 01:16:27.840 --> 01:16:28.279 Amen. 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:28.279 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:58.259 Thank you.