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O, don't worry so much about millennial views. Just get a grip of the superb Historicist understanding as in Matthew Henry and James Durham, with the rise and fall of the Papal Antichrist being the main fulfilment. It is such a shame that so many good Reformed men follow William Hendricksen and miss this main fulfilment being relative to the Papacy. You can still be Amillemmial !

Nowhere in the book of Genesis do we see anyone observing a sabbath day. Certainly not, Adam, before the fall nor after. Abraham never kept a sabbath or any Patrirch, for that matter. The sabbath or the day God rested could not have been written on Adams heart since it related to creation itself and hence no eternal moral law. There will be no sabbath in the new heaven and new earth. A temporary law imposed on Israel after the exodus and the institution of the Mosaic Covenant not before. To remember the Sabbath day was a preoccupation of national Israel and no one else. Not a single word of condemnation of any gentile in the NT regarding the sabbath. The idea that God changed the day is exegetically preposterous and revealed nowhere in the NT writings. The sabbath is fulfilled in Christ, who provided our eternal sabbath rest through his life and work. Exactly what the writer to the Hebrews taught. The idea of a creation ordinance, let alone a part of an eternal moral law, has no exegetical base in the word of God righty taught and expounded. The Purutan and Scottish Presbyterian doctrine is well intended but unbiblical. Even Calvin did not hold to a strict Lords day sabbath if you read his exposition on the ten commandments in the Institutes. A Lords Day, yes to be used to refresh the saints in the word and in the fellowship of the church but not a sabbath day to be marked out in the same way as the Mosaic sabbath law given to national Israel. Stop reading your false premises and presuppositions into the NT.

Who are these hyper Calvinists? Name them?

The classical Reformed view is the ancient Patristic doctrine of Logos Theology. Their rejection of Theonomy mostly comes from the Logos Theology and therefore Wesleyan interpretation of Matt. 19:8. In order for them to use this passage against Theonomy they have to reject Total Depravity and demand that humanity has been somehow raised above having a hard heart. If you know anything about the ancient soteriology of the Patristics, Theosis and Christus Victor, the Logos jumps in humanity and raises it up the chain of being according to Patristic Theology. It has ever since been evolving and progressing to a state of perfection pace Wesley. This is obviously a rejection of the doctrines of Grace especially Total depravity.

Gill was a Master in Israel. The greatest Baptist Theologian of his time forward. My favorite writer. Falsely called a hyper Calvinist. Gill was by all his writing a Baptist Puritan of the 18th century. His Cause of God and Truth is without doubt the best defense of the sovereign grace ever exegeted from the holy scriptures. Every text in the Calvinist Arminian controversy is thoroughly examined and the truth set forth leaving no doubt as to the clear teaching of the word of God on this subject. John Owens Display of Arminianism is the next thorough refutation I commend to the earnest student of the truth of God as it is in Jesus Christ.

All y'all is the plural!

Having come from a place with many issues (addiction, anger, dysfunctional non Christian family who disallowed any Biblical talk, etc) and plenty of non-Biblical counseling, true healing came upon me when I quit running away from God ✝ and turned my life over to Him (because I was unable to live a life governed by me). I am now a completely different person with all of those past struggles gone and with new "manageable" struggles that I turn over to God, seeking His direction through His Word. I recently bought *Competent to Counsel* by Jay Adams and last night, ordered *A Theology of Biblical Counseling* by Heath Lambert and am searching for online Biblical counseling training so I can share what was so graciously given to me with others who so desperately need it. Thank you brothers ✝ for both your contributions in this area. All for the glory of God 🙏🏻

We Love you Vodie. Praise to the Lord for you and your special gifts. Praise our Lord Jesus

This begs the question. Did the Christians who were burned or thrown to the lions die for nothing if they could've just fought back? Or what about in Peter's letter where he explicitly says "Honor the Emporer" the same Emporer doing the above mentioned things? I'm not trying to be harsh but I really think it comes down to modern Christian existing with a system that has protected them for hundreds of years suddenly getting their first taste of government persecution and unlike their forefathers that endured in love like Christ but now try to wiggle around into justifying armed rebellion. I'm not even saying you should obey specific commands that genuinely disturb your conscience because that is sin, however to move that into "well actually armed rebellion is ok" is way beyond any reasonable conclusion. Maybe I'm wrong but I can't help but feel like that is complete wiggling what you want into the text instead of its clear teaching in light of the entire scripture. What about Jeremiah 27? Where God told Israel and other nations that frankly they were going to wear the yoke of Babylon as judgement and God will decide when enough is enough. I don't see the consistency. How could you even know that the tyrannical American government isn't a judgement from God for the mass un aliving of children? 400 years in slavery to Pharoah? Fine. 70 years of Exile in Babylon? Fine. 4 years of being banned off social media and ostracized? Nope too far. I sympathize with the feeling but the response is frankly ridiculous as of it can never be God's will for suffering to occur. If anything we should be praising and thanking Him nothing worse has occurred for what we've done.

What a powerful and educational experience on the Great Commission of God. Brother Justin truly showed the working of God’s mission during this podcast. Job well done & Thank you for sharing this with us today.

Is Mike a Reformed Baptist?

I was amening aloud the whole lesson my brother... I love you! Pray for you! Keep on preaching truth brother!

Thank you for the interview. I appreciate the ability to comment here. I have a few thoughts which I would love to discuss. What Bible reads on the plowboy level? It seems strange to talk like this but then give a young kid an ESV. The ESV is not comprehensive to young children throughout. Possibly it is more comprehensive than the KJV, but this just seems like gaslighting. Leland Ryken (an editor of the ESV), argued that the vast majority of those who use this supposed Tyndale quote actually abuse it. “The statement about the plowboy is not a comment about Tyndale’s preferred style for an English Bible. It is not a designation of teenage farm boys as a target audience for a niche Bible. Those misconceptions are the projections of modern partisans for a colloquial and simplified English Bible.” He goes on to argue that “It is instead a comment about how widely Tyndale wanted the English Bible to be disseminated in English society. Tyndale was not making a bow to farm boys. He was using a particular example to make the general point that he wanted the whole cross section of the English population to have access to the Bible.” 1 Corinthians 14 does teach edification requires intelligibility in a specific context. But again, if we push that to mean we cannot say any word which the most ignorant in the Church gathering would find unintelligible than we might as well throw out all Bibles. I personally do not believe it is talking about Scripture anyway, I believe it is talking about speaking or preaching, not reading or quoting Scripture. The preface of the KJV was written by Miles Smith. That was just a historical error by Bro. Ward. Several translators died before it was written and some even disagreed in tone or content with the preface. Tradition is not wrong if it does not go against the Bible. It seems like Bro. Ward was attempting to strongman the argument there. These are all words which have suffered some semantic shift, but are in modern translations: Remove (NKJV), Landmark (NKJV), Heresies (MEV, NKJV, SKJV), Cattle (LSB, NET, NASB), Necessities (WEB), Study (MEV), Counsel (MEV), Mansions (NKJV), rumor (MEV), peculiar (MEV), followers (MEV), Bruise (MEV), Brethren (RSVCE, NMB, NCB), Passengers (MEV), rage (CSB, ESV), Imaginations (MEV), issues (MEV), Host (MEV).

We need to take steps?! Achtung! Goosesteps, jah?

At 16:50 to 17:12 Ward says, "Who is making me choose? Why not both?! ... I decided to promote the use of the embarrassment of riches we have in English bible translations." In Genesis 3, the serpent starts out with, "Yea hath God said ... ?" then goes to, "Ye shall not surely die: ... ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Now if Eve had said, "We don't need to eat from this tree, we can eat from the Tree of Life" as an objection, the serpent might have said, "Who is making you choose?"

"I still quote the KJV because it's what I grew up with" <------- Same! lol!

This is a sermon that should be preached in the black community.

Would the WORK of the law be the condemnation that the law works within the conscience of those who do not possess the written code , for this instance of the law could not be the same as the law written on the heart spoken of in the Jeremiah 31 sense ? I think that we get confused a bit here.

Y'all is used in Georgia, Florida and Alabama too😊 . ❤❤❤

According to the Bible mystery, Babylon is old covenant Jerusalem revelation 18 verse 24 compared to Luke 13 verse 34and Matthew 23:37

We can claim a verse when the spirit of ABBA YAH is on it, that means that word is 4 u, not claim it blab it and grab it like the fake prosperity preachers on tv, and why men's hearts will grow cold, believing what they were told, and not getting it thru the word HIMSELF GENESIS 1:1-4, JOHN 1:1-4, AND WHY ITS CALLED THE LIVING WORD, i told ABBA i never want to be ashamed in HIS presence that would be my greatest reward, and i told HIM i want to be at the end of the line, because i want to be able to spend more time with him. Its a process, and you will fall along the way, paul said to finish the race, otherwise if you fall get back up ask for forgiveness quickly, and finish the race, HE will love u thru everything and will tell you why u have sinned and HOW it entered your father's bloodline, there is nothing like studying the word with ABBA, you know its HIM because HIS LOVE IS SO GREAT AND THE WISDOM IS SO INTELLIGENT THAT YOU KNOW ITS NOT iyour thoughts because you are not that intelligent & its not Satan's, but you know its ABBA because of the overwhelming love, a love so great you can't explain it, it has to be experienced to know it and We know satan has no love. See u when He returns ❤😊

VODDIE DOESN'T HAVE A RELIGION BUT A RELATIONSHIP WITH ABBA YAH ROMANS 8;15 PSALMS 68;4 ABBA doesn't want us to have a religion, one of the definitions for religion is ritual, BUT A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM, BECAUSE YOU SINCERELY AND DILIGENTLY SOUGHT HIM IN WORD, ❤😊

He has wisdom from ABBA: ROMANS 8;15, because he has a relationship with him, that was restored by YAHUSHA HA MASIACH, john 14:6 there is no j in Hebrew and that letter did not come into existence until 1534AD BY a catholic monk 490 years ago, they changed the names so we would not have any power against them, YAHUSHA lived 2000 years ago, they even changed his mother's name too, it was MIRIAM not mary, i have studied the jewish history of origins of names and surnames and there is no name in Hebrew with a j, if you studied the word like 2 Timothy 2:15, HE WILL LET U LEARN THE TRUTH, YAHUSHA IN HEBREW AND GREEK IS THE SAME BUT NOT THE ROMAN IESOU, THEY CHANGED IT, AND WHY WE HAVE THE FALSE NAME JESUS YOU NEVER TRANSLATE A PROPER NAME, YOUR NAME WOULD BE THE SAME WHERE EVER YOU WENT, AND WHY WE HAVE NEVER SEEN THE MIRACLES THAT YAHUSHA SAID WE WOULD DO THESE MIRACLES AND GREATER ONES THEN THESE, BECAUSE HE GOES TO THE FATHER, HE GAVE A DOOR OPEN TO THE COMFORTER, THAT IS THE RUACH HA QODASH: HOLY SPIRIT: WHICH IS THE FATHER JOHN 4:24-30, I CALLED THE SON JESUS, BUT NOW I KNOW THE TRUTH, DON'T READ A BIBLE THAT IS NEW, FIND ONE AT A THRIFT STORE, THAT IS OLDER THEN 1970, THEY HAVE CHANGED SO MUCH OF THE WORD, I HAVE BEEN STUDYING FOR 52 YEARS, AND LOOKED UP EACH OF THE HEBREW AND GREEK WORDS, AND THE LAT 31 YEARS WITH THE ANOINTING OF ABBA'S SPIRIT 1 JOHN 2:27, )BECAUSE IT WAS BOUGHT BY A GUY THEY CALLED RED, NOT BECAUSE HE HAD REDHAIR BUT BECAUSE HE KEPT A BUST OF STALIN, A COMMI, BOUGHT THE RIGHTS TO PUBLISH ALL OUR BIBLES, GOOGLE IT. SEE U WHEN HE RETURNS , BROTHER VODDIE YOU ARE ONE IN A MILLION, KEEP STUDYING WITH THE SPIRIT OF ABBA YAH, PSALM 68:4, BUT THEY CHANGED IT TO JAH, I HAVE A 1932 BIBLES - 1970 SEE U WHEN HE RETURNS ❤😊

Dr Ward's work is important because the language of the KJV is different from the language spoken by many of its readers.

This interview is so helpful Mark Ward, you've given listeners so many great points. Many thanks to you for the thought-provoking answers, and to the interviewer for asking great questions! Mark, I paused the video to comment on you saying (paraphrased) that you wish we had a pope to decipher some of these idiosynchracies within translations, a pope who would say, this is correct, or that is not. And my immediate response was, well, we do! We have someone better than the pope living inside all of us, and that is the Holy Spirit of the Living God, the One who _knows_ the mind of the Father! The Holy Spirit can, does, and will _guide_ us into all truth. He is the "teacher of all men." Hallelujah!

Notice how Mark seemed a little uncertain about the question about how he came to love the bible. If you listen very carefully to him in the first five minutes of this video, this seems to be a guy that loves intellectual pursuits and scholarship, but there's nothing from him about loving the Lord Jesus or wanting to help spread the Gospel and grow the church, or even at a personal level to come to know the Lord better. Mark strikes me as the kind of guy that grew up in a Christian home but never actually got saved; this can lead to a lot of head knowledge without heart knowledge, hence his passions seem too far in the intellectual direction with seemingly no drive for evangelistic work (perhaps because he's never repented and believed himself?). Mark, perhaps you could share with us your conversion story some time?

Weight of history shows God's preserved word is the KJV. Any new translation must be a revision of KJV, not RSV, not NIV, not critical text whatever, not new. Words change, my Mom's old Bible had small stars on a word, as a footnote gave a word equivalent word. So, a revision isn't out of possibly, only that. Motives beyond that, like the Bible isn't reliable without totally new translations would be questionable.

Paul I Was Save 9/29/2002 My Life Verse Revelation 3:16

Most of what Mark said is good. Now in this point... I don't like Mark Ward's liberal stance on Bible translations: That there's a blessing with the plethora of the translations we have. Mark is overlooking a lot of translations that are just corrupt. For example, when you simplify or dumb down the Scriptures so much there's going to be something lost. Most contemporary translations are making translations like childrens' bibles. I am trying to point out that you cannot do that without loss of meaning. I know this biblical translation work because I do it on a daily basis; and I see these translations add or delete difficult words and phrases. I'm just telling it as it is. I believe the Legacy Standard Bible (LSB) and others are trying to be faithful to the original.

Mark, could you share what your understanding is of why the verses of Mark 16:9-16 are included in many Bibles, including the KJV, when many early manuscripts omit these verses? If you have time....thanks....

Mark Ward is a tremendous asset to the Kingdom of God at large - fantastic interview!

I know most people reading this will already have made up their mind but if there's just one new Christian reading this, I encourage you to go look up the major differences between the translations, using the KJV as a base (God allowed this one to be propagated in particular for hundreds of years). Ask that God through His Holy Spirit would guide you as to whether the more significant differences (including removed or 'doubted' verses like Acts 8:37) in the new versions compared to the King James are godly or not. Then prayerfully decide for yourself whether wrestling with the older English is worth it (it becomes much easier with only a little practice). In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. (Luke 10:21) Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Colossians 2:8) Ever since Genesis 3, Satan has been trying to change the truth of God's word. This all might come across as overly sharp but I believe defending the word of God is worth it. I have much love for all brothers and sisters in Christ, regardless of what version they use.

Any relationship to Mathew Ward?

Thank you Mark for sharing your informed insights into currently available translations for evangelical Christians. May God bless you.

Appreciate your work Mark.

Why the ghastly rock music?!

Most of us gain insights every time we read the Bible, does Mark Ward believe he fully understand the Bible fully after reading the niv once?

Both men are Calvinists. But they use language that doesn't let us know that their Calvinists

I watch dozens of videos about the bible every week. The Holy Spirit is not mentioned at all in most of them. Thank you Mark. In your answer to the first question, you mentioned the Holy Spirit. Love you brother.

May I suggest some advice for a person looking for the right Bible translation(s). [You will need more than one, once you get going.] 1) Ask your PASTOR for his advice. 1a) Make an appointment! You want adequate time, not just a minute after a service; serious counsel, not just a quip off the top of his head. 2) To begin reading any translation, get a red ballpoint pen, and study the PREFACE, making notes in the margin. 2a) You want a translation which makes Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles SPEAK God's word to your overall circumstances and personal situation. 2b) You do NOT want a translation which IMPOSES the latest fads and fancies of modern culture, onto the Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles! 3) Read the Bible EVERY DAY! 3a) If possible, read the Bible at least once a YEAR. [Takes about 60 hours to read the Bible.] 3b) Make notes in the margins; mark verses which really speak to your heart. 3c) MEMORIZE twelve verses which are most important to you at this time in your Christian life.

I hope that if possible we can get him to read Dr Renihan book The Mystery of Christ . Dr Ward has ben an enormous influence and I’d be grateful if he were to appear on your program again.

Yes !!!!!

Be very wary of Mark Ward. A quick look on his TH-cam channel shows that literally all he ever makes videos about is bible translations and textual criticism. Consider what he doesn't produce any content about: - Gospel preaching and evangelism - Bible exposition - Apologetics - His own personal witness for Christ Now, a Christian TH-camr doesn't need to cover all that ground, but at least some of it would be the fruit of a productive Christian TH-cam ministry. The fact that Mark hasn't posted a single video on any of those subjects is worrying to me. Is he even a Christian? Does he have any interest in reaching lost souls or building up fellow believers? Or is he just wanting to stir trouble and division among the body of Christ?

I didn't realize Mark was wanting to remove the reading of the King James Bible from pulpits. There's more to translations than words. Style also counts for something. The King James Bible is the best English translation overall. It's also the best to read from the pulpit. It wouldn't be difficult for a pastor to explain a particular passage using other translations after a problematic reading.

My fav expository teacher attended Bob Jones...John Barnett

Agree that using several translations is wise. For KJV onlyists, if your bible has the word "ghost" in it, you might not have a pure translation. I've really been impressed with the newest Modern English Version (MEV).

Amen