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2005 - Touchet Baptist Church, Touchet, Washington - Pastor Mike Paulson - 2005
Expounding the way of God more perfectly - Acts 18:26 - with the Scriptures Rightly Divided - II Timothy 2:15

Swimming Deeper With the King James Bible
Adult Teaching Service
Beginning November 13, 2005
See Introduction for a detailed description of this series.
Acts 27 - swimming or floating?
Rightly Dividing right on down to the very words and letters!
The Language of the King James Bible
Part I

I am tired of these Greek guys calling me and trying to convince me that we need to go back to the Greek to know the deeper meaning  in order to clarify some word usage in our King James Bible!
...thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Psalm 138:2

It is true!
The English of the King James Bible is truly the Language of God that He has preserved His words in!

NO OTHER LANGUAGE, including any other variations of the modernized English is God's language!

The modern bible's language - ENGLISH - is so dummied-down, it produces Christian 'dummies!'

Christianity is NO LONGER ABOUT TRUTH OF GOD'S WORDS! - it is about numbers, money, mega churches, false doctrine, flesh, happiness, self, psychology - it is about preparing the world for the antichrist.  It is now WITHIN Christianity.  It is no longer 'out there!'

Dummied-down Bibles produce Dummied-down Christians!


 
Dummy definition
Dummy Christian Application
imitation of a real or original object
imitation / fake Christian / not truly saved / all act and not real
a person manipulated by a ventriloquist
a person manipulated by the devil / pastor, etc. 
a stupid personp; a dolt
little or no knowledge of the Bible - KJB!
 a silent person
somebody who 'says' nothing about truth, only lives his life 'saved'
person / agency secretly in the service of another
self-proclaimed Christian who secretly / unknowingly serves Satan

Studying the language of the English King James Bible
will prove fully all of the above statements
beyond a shadow of doubt!

God builds up our understanding as we read the King James 1611 Bible.
Even our own 'walk' is based on a process of growing and perfecting!
Christ knows 'when' to tell us things - and so He will 'show' us His words as He sees we are ready for them.  John 16:12-13 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

It isn't...
It all isn't our 'brain' that needs to be in gear - knowledge based only on our personal studies!
It isn't the Holy Spirit only, as ALPHA, Purpose Driven, Pentecostals, etc. say!

We must be READING the King James Bible in order for God to be effective in our daily lives!
Romans 10:17 - So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
I Timothy 4:13 - Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
I Thessalonians 2:13 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

We see new light on the importance of Amos 8:11-13 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:  And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.  In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
Our children and grandchildren will faint for thirst of the hearing the WORDS of the LORD!

The mere entrance...
Psalm 119:130 - The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

As WE grow in perfection, we will grow in understanding...
...from READING the words of the Lord in the King James 1611 Bible!

There is a process taking place - some of which we are not conscious of it taking place.
Understanding is being given to us through the very READING of this Book!!

It is Paul's prayers that we develop an understanding!
Colossians 1:9 - For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Colossians 2:2 - That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
II Timothy 2:7 - Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

Lost people will have no understanding!
Romans 1:31 - Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
I Corinthians 1:19 - For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

He will keep our minds through the reading of this Book!
Philippians 4:7 - And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
I Corinthians 14:20: Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be menRead your KJB!
I Corinthians 14:15: What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

These verses should make even more sense now - for the lost as well as the 'non-readers!'
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:  Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ;  If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: Ephesians 4:17-21

I wonder how much 'teaching' goes in our Bible colleges - or is it more 'reading!'
Interesting thought, eh!


Here are some more examples to prove the above statements
concerning The Language of the King James Bible!

The King James Bible progressively Builds-up an Understanding of the Meaning of Words.

In spite of the lies of the posters in today's modern "devil's bookstores," modern testing using the Flesch-Kincaid research company's 'Grade Level Indicator' verifies that ONLY the King James BIble progressively builds in understanding from Genesis to Revelation, and maintains the easiest reading level.
 

 
KJV Grade Level
NIV Grade Level
NASB Grade Level
TEV Grade Level
NKJV Grade Level
Genesis 1
4.4`
5.1
4.7
5.1
5.2
Malachi 1
4.6
4.8
5.1
5.4
4.6
Matthew 1
6.7
16.4
6.8
11.8
10.3
Revelation 1
7.5
7.1
7.7
6.4
7.7
Grade Level Av.
5.8
8.4
6.1
7.2
6.9

For example:

Genesis 32:20 accept
Leviticus 22:20 acceptable
Job 34:19 accepteth
Isaiah 60:7 acceptance
Luke 20:21 acceptest
I Timothy 1:15 acceptation
I Timothy 1:15,16  This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.  Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

BESTEAD

Genesis 2:21 instead
Genesis 22:3 the burnt offering... the place of
Genesis 22:13 a burnt offering in the stead of
I Chronicles 5:22 dwelt in their steads
Isaiah 8:21 hardly bestead  (hardly a place for them)

BEDSTEAD

Genesis 48:2 upon the bed ( a bed is a place to get up on)
Deuteronomy 3:11 bedstead  (a place to get up on)

COUCH

Genesis 49:4 Thou wentest up to thy father's bed... to my couch
OED bed (the first and primary definition of couch is bed - it's 3rd is sofa.
COUCHED
Genesis 49:9 he stooped down, he couched as a lion
OED to lay down... (e.g. couched... in a strong lion's lair...) said of animals
COUCHING
Genesis 49:14 couching down between two burdens
OED stooped under a burden


The King James Bible uses families of morphologically related words to communicate meaning.

The Anglo-Saxon vocabulary of the KJV is built-up through the process of affixation and compounding.  This process is also referred to as 'cognitive scaffolding.'

When new versions substitute other words, this built-in clue to meaning is destroyed.

The NKJV substitutes demons for devils, humiliate for vile, foolishness for villany, and assorted polysyllabic words like adversity, distressing, catastrophe, calamity, difficult, harmful, and terrible for the simple word evil!

EVIL
KJV (from root word evil)
Genesis 2:9 evil
Leviticus 17:7 devils
Deuteronomy 25:3 vile
Isaiah 32:6 villany

EAR

KJV (from root word ear)
Genesis 4:23 hear
Genesis 4:23 hearken
Exodus 15:26 ear
Job 33:3 clearly

EAR

KJV - root word retained
NKJV  - root word missing
Genesis 4:23 Hear my voice... hearken unto my speech hear my voice...  listen to my speech
Exodus 15:26 wilt diligently hearken... wilt give ear you diligently heed... give ear
Job 33:3 my lips shall utter knowledge clearly my lips utter pure knowledge

Watch for ONOMATOPOEIA, that is, words that imitate the sounds of the word.

buzz
humm
plop
drop
splash
bang
cough
creak
crispy

KJV
murmur
lowing
chatter
babbler
bray
bleating

say bite -  you must bite with your teeth to say that word
say devour - you must open your mouth wide, as if devouring something.
That's the King James English - Anglo Saxon origin.