Bible 1611.com
by Richard St.James © 2008 Bible 1611 - Sluice Box Adventures - Old Paths Bible Ministries
Bible 1611.com is a Help In A Time Of Need !
Bible 1611.com is for those who live in the end of this age … the dispensation of the church.
Our Benchmark for Bible 1611.com is the word of God. “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever” [Psalm 12:6-7]
“Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.” Haggai 1:13
These messages are for you! These are messages from the messenger. These messages are to be a help in the time of need in the following topics: The Basics of Life, Bible Translations Controversy, True Salvation, Christian Growth, Dispensations, How To Find Your Mate [Betrothing], Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, Step-Parenting, Raising Children For The LORD, Qualifications for Pastors, Standards, Christian Homes, and much more!
| The Three Kinds Of People | For Charity Shall Cover A Multitude Of Sins |
| The Narrow Way | The Most Beautiful Woman! |
| Saving the Gold | The House Of The Rechabites |
| Sit To Walk | No Easy Road |
| Stand To Run! | Marriage, Divorce And Remarriage |
| The Foundations Are Destroyed … AND WE SHALL FLY AWAY! | The Great Stepper |
| Josiah [Or A Type Of N.T. Believer] | Finding Your Mate God's Way [Or Resisting The Pied Piper Of Dating] |
| The Basic Truths Of Life! | The New Testament Bishop |
| Though They Were In It | Blood Sucking Leeches [Or Unholy Alliances] |
| Selling Yourself To Do Evil [Or Selling Yourself To The Devil] | Legalism Versus Standards |
| When That Which Is Perfect Is Come |
King James Bible Study
... The Gospel According To John ... a series of Bible Studies given
by Rick St.James at Old Paths Baptist Mission, Oakdale, Tennessee.
King James Bible
The Kingdom Of Heaven (Or the Millennial Kingdom) ... Read more?
The primary theme of the Bible is one of kingdoms and kings. In fact, two of books are named KINGS: I Kings and II Kings. Kingdoms and Kings! Two more books that chronicle kingdoms and kings (in particular the Jewish kingdoms and their kings) are I Chronicles and II Chronicles. In Matthew 4:8, we see a strange scene … six thousand years in a moment of time, with all “the kingdoms of the world” being offered by the god of this world (Satan) to the SON of GOD Jesus Christ.
Believing The Bible vs. The Light Of Your Fire!
“Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.” (Isaiah 50:10-11)
In January, 1977, when I exited the gate of the U.S. Navy’s Treasure Island in California for the last time, I became a civilian again. But I was not the same civilian as I was before I went into the Navy.
Before I went into the Navy, I was in spiritual darkness,
“for
ye were sometimes darkness”. I also was without hope.
“That at the
time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope,
and without God in the world.” (Ephesians 2:12) Further as a member
of this old world I was a hater of God. To say it bluntly I was
living by the light of my own fire.
However, the man who went through that gate in 1977 was no longer
living by the light of his own fire. He had found by the grace of
God the truth of the utter fruitlessness of such an endeavor. That
endeavor is living by the light of one’s own fire.
“Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about
with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that
ye have kindled.”
As a nation and as individuals … we have decided to walk in the light of our own fire. This fire provides a false light … a kind of light that leads to an eternal fire. We think we are so wise and so greatly advanced in our learning that the Bible (and the GOD of that Bible) is irrelevant. But friend let me tell you something! You will need to BUCK the flow of this old world in order to understand what is happening to this old world. Now STOP all this running around with the wrong crowd! They are lying to you. That Bible is the most relevant book on the face of this Earth. That BOOK tells us to reject the light of our own fire and to desire and to obtain that illumination provided by the LIGHT of the pure words of God.
The Churches Are Falling Away … Apostasy
What’s more … the Bible reveals who we are and where we are in a timeline given for human history. (But you will have to BELIEVE THE BOOK to understand where we are within this great expanse of time. This BOOK I am referring to is the Authorized Version of 1611, or any of its editions, and is also known as the King James Bible). That BOOK indicates that we are living in the latter times that are allocated to the Gentile nations before God again turns to his chosen nation, which is Israel.
We are
living in the
Church Age or otherwise known as the
Age of Grace.
Further, this is a period of time identified as a mystery, and
is a dispensation hid from ages and from generations. “To whom
God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this
mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of
glory:” (Colossians 1:27).
Furthermore, the Bible reveals in the
book of the Revelation that
this particular part of the church
age (which we are now living in) began around the year 1900.
This period of time is characterized by the last of the seven
churches that are found in the first four chapters of this book.
The church is identified as the church of Laodicea. (Revelation
3:14-22)
This church is lukewarm in its love and devotion to Jesus Christ in the estimation of God. It is a church caught basking in the light of its own fire. It is a church that thinks it is rich and loves its own light, not wanting the LIGHT of God’s word. Now what does God think of all this? He says that they are “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.”
God counsels this church to be clothed in “white raiment” so as to cover the shame of its nakedness … and REPENT, verse 18-19. Apostasy is what is found in this church. The Scripture here shows that this church of the Laodiceans had fallen away from the LORD Jesus Christ and his BOOK. (This is true in a literal sense … to a literal church in Asia Minor.)
However, this same Scripture has a fulfillment in a future event (in a prophetic sense). It points to the apostasy that would run rampant in our day. “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.” (II Thessalonians 2:4)
The last part of the church age is therefore characterized by APOSTASY in the churches. The Bible’s precepts, principles, and commands in the last one hundred years have become so many shades of gray to the vast multitude of Christians. This was till the robber came and stole our sense of absolutes, and had supplanted in its place his shades of gray.
We were a nation that had a heritage rooted in biblical
traditions.
America, in its very roots, had a godly heritage.
The fruit of the Great Awakening in eighteenth century, and the
revivals in the nineteenth century, affected all our
inhabitants, and permeated its institutions, its laws and it
traditions.
Men and women modeled their marriages and families after the biblical model. Even those unregenerate human hearts in our population felt this restraint from doing evil. This placed a check on our nation from going too far wayward from THE LAW of God (The Ten Commandments).
As long as we were a nation that revered and believed the old black BOOK, the King James Bible, we would enjoy God’s blessings as an American Gentile nation whom God placed in the latter part of the sixth millennium years of human history.
Believing the BOOK is paramount to everything that matters in
this life and holds the KEY to a correct understanding of
history. BELIEVING is the KEY to a proper understanding of the
Bible.
We need to observe two more keys in this sequence. The key to our understanding of the Old Testament … is the book of Revelation.
The key to our understanding of the New Testament ... is the Old Testament. “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” (Romans 15:4)
The John Gano Evidence of George Washington’s Baptism
None of the numerous sesquicentennial events in our land has deeper
significance than the dedication of a college chapel in the heart of
the country in memory of John Gano “the fighting chaplain”
of the Revolutionary War and a close friend of George Washington.
John Gano and his sons stood preeminent in three particulars:
patriotism, missions and education. Heroic devotion to the country,
heroic devotion to the extension of the sway of Christ and heroic
devotion to higher education have seldom been so splendidly
combined.
Read more?
Shubal Stearns - Bible 1611 - The Separate Baptist Revival and Its Influence in the South
James H. Sightler, M.D. - Sightler Publications
The Separate Baptists took their origin in Connecticut. Valentine Wightman was a grandson of Edward Wightman, the last man burned at the stake in England in 1612. Valentine Wightman was born in 1681 and raised in Rhode Island. He was saved and became a member of the North Kingstown Baptist Church. In 1705 he moved to Groton Connecticut and founded the first Baptist church in that state. Read more?
The
Anvil-1611-God's Word The King James Bible Is
Inspired
May we call the KJB inspired, or merely the best translation of the
inspired originals and copies of them? Is it truly scripture as we
read in II Timothy 3:16 or not?
Read
more?
Why The English Of The King James Bible Is Better Than That Of All The Modern Versions
First, the KJB is precise in the use of the old pronouns in the second person, and that is necessary for a literal and accurate translation. Modern translations can never match it. Read more?
Inspiration: Temporal or Eternal?
I believe that inspiration is not a process but an entity, an eternal entity, a fact or deed. If the KJV translators had believed it was a process they would have translated II Timothy 3:16 “pasa graphe theopneustos” as “All scripture is God breathed.” Read more?
The
King James Version of 1611 The Myth of Early Revisions
by David F. Reagan
Men have been "handling the word of God deceitfully" (II Cor. 4:2) ever since the devil first taught Eve how. From Cain to Balaam, from Jehudi to the scribes and Pharisees, from the Dark Age theologians to present-day scholars, the living words of the Almighty God have been prime targets for man’s corrupting hand. Read more?
[THE BIBLE] This is God's Holy WORD to you and I!
Do you believe it?
The A.V.1611 (or The King James Bible) is God's word
PRESERVED in
the English language for you and me.
It came from the English Reformation.
This Bible declares that: "All scripture is given by inspiration of
God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness." [2 Timothy 3:16]
God's inspired word is preserved in the A.V.1611.
The word
"preserved" means maintained inspiration.
"The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in the
furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O
LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever."
[Psalm 12:6-7]
[PRESERVE]
You see what God is saying here? GOD promises that no matter what
man does, even with his corrupting influence in all these Madison
Avenue money-making productions, which have resulted in over 200
"new" English translations of the Bible in the last 100 plus years, HE WILL (in spite of the scholars)
"PRESERVE THEM FROM THIS
GENERATION FOR EVER!" Stick with the Book! Amen! Amen! AMEN!
I simply have in child-likeness believed THE BOOK
... no matter how
hard things got ... for it has BURNED in my heart for these last
thirty-four years.
I have by GRACE not gotten off course either ... for He has held me
to Himself.
God is faithful, and I (literally) have taken God at His word
concerning 1 Peter 1:5.
"Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready
to be revealed in the last time."
And while I have seen the Lord hold me to Himself, I have with
sadness watched as many people, churches, Bible colleges and even
our nation, are slowly slipping ... degree by degree ... away from
THE GOD of THE BIBLE.
Why has this happened?
Could it be, that we can, through unholy alliances, lose something
that we never intended to give up?
For me, Rick St.James,
I am to approach THE BOOK, as like a child, with a trusting heart
through faith.
I want to line out with that BOOK!
I want this said of me, as also was said of the believers at
Thessalonica,
"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." [1
Thessalonians 2:13]
What about you?
"Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the
LORD. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him
with the whole heart" [Psalm 119:2]
They who keep his testimonies have a whole heart.
Their heart will approach God and His Book with total joy and
expecting to commune with the Holy God who is infinite, for this
purpose:
"Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. With my lips have
I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. I have rejoiced in the
way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. I will meditate in
thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. I will delight myself
in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word" [Psalm
119:12-16]
Will You Come TO Jesus Christ?
Do you believe this scripture, my friend?
Do you sense from within your heart ... the tugging and pulling of
the Spirit of God?
The Holy Spirit "will reprove the world of sin,
and of righteousness, and of judgment."
Are you under tremendous conviction of sin, and are you mulling over
within your heart the TWO WAYS in life that lie before you?
You must make a decision.
It is a matter of whether or not to go to
THE STRAIT GATE, or to stay on THE BROAD WAY!
Where are you, my
friend?
What will you do with Jesus Christ?
Will you flee from the wrath of God, and go to THE DOOR, and Knock?
If you go through this DOOR you will be on location at Mount Calvary
which place is where the weight of your sin will drop off your back
at the sight of the ONE who died for you, and
WHO shed His BLOOD for
you.
You ... my friend ... will then ... be on THE NARROW WAY TO
HEAVEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
As you grow in Jesus Christ, may you come to a point in your life that this old hymn continuously fills your heart. Read it my friend! Sing to the LORD from your heart!
Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art
Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.
Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.
Be Thou my battle Shield, Sword for the fight;
Be Thou my Dignity, Thou my Delight;
Thou my soul's Shelter, Thou my high Tower:
Raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.
Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise,
Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High King of heaven, my Treasure Thou art.
High King of heaven, my victory won,
May I reach heaven's joys, O bright heaven's Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.
Be Thou My Vision
Ancient Irish Hymn.
Translated by Mary E. Byrne.
Public Domain.