Greetings from Bishop Aubrey Shines and G2G Ministries
in Tampa, Florida. We pray that you would be
blessed and encouraged by the biblical message
you are about to hear. Today's classic sermon
by Bishop shines is part seven of Jehovah's Witnesses
from the comparative religion series with reference
scriptures Acts chapter 5 verses 1 through 4
and Acts chapter 13 verses 1 through 4 in the
King James translation But I think it's been
worth it if you know Jehovah's Witness you should
be well equipped by now to Be able to witness
to them one thing that I won't do and that is
I won't take time to give a total Synopsis or
go over the synopsis of what we've given in the
past But I do want to just emphasize just a couple
of things here all the notes all the things that
we've taught on this are in the CD series and
we'll sell it as a package So you should feel
your library with notes and with things like
this. Can you imagine? If when we were younger
in church, had we known all the things that we
know? Can you imagine, I'm not throwing off on
my old pastor or anybody else, but if, you know,
and a lot of you all didn't experience this because
you didn't come up in a Pentecostal church, but
they were so busy worrying about what we were
wearing, they forgot to teach us and put anything
in our brains. Anybody know what I'm talking
about? If you were Baptist or Methodist, I'm
serious, you wouldn't be able to relate to this.
You would look at us and think, wow, that was
really silly of you all. y 'all had y 'all own
moments as well, and I just thank God that we're
at a place now that we're beginning to learn
some things, and I think when we finish with
this tonight, I think you'll have grasped the
whole of the Jehovah's Witness. Okay, what I
want to do is give you a couple notes. First
of all, on your notes that you have, I am going
to ask you to write a few things out in just
a few moments here, but if you look at the very
top, it says Jehovah's Witness and the Holy Spirit.
One of the reasons that I entitled this part
is because one of the things that one of the
many things that I've already shared with you
is Several of the things that the JWs teach and
the way that it is polluted in what's called
the NWT Which you'll see in just a few moments
here I've already given you a list of the various
doctrines that they adhere to where they come
from pardon me, and what's more important is
that you understand their founder. If you remember
that one piece of argument, and remember this
in everything that you do, whenever you are confronting
any occult, Hear me well, saints of God. Whenever
you are confronting, whether it is a known occult
or cult, whether you are confronting a certain
type of ideology, whether you are confronting
or battling against a certain type of philosophy,
whatever it is that you encounter as a believer.
Some of us have brothers and sisters and sons
and daughters and moms and dads that are caught
up in a whole lot of things outside of Christianity
and what they try to do is they want to clump
it all together and make it sound as if though
it's all the same thing and and we all serve
the same God how many have ever heard somebody
tell you well we all serve the same God we just
serve him in different ways the devil is a liar
we don't all serve the same God just like everybody's
last name ain't Williams everybody's last name
ain't Jones everybody's last name is not shines
we are different we are different people and
and Often, even as Hindus, and I'm not gonna
get into a lot of Hinduism when we teach it,
but even as Hindus, they have over two million
separate gods. So if you know people that are
usually, not always, but usually from a Indian
descent, if they live either in Pakistan or in
Istanbul or places of that magnitude, Karachi
or Kashmir, you will find that the majority of
those individuals come from what's called Hinduism
and in under the umbrella of Hinduism there two
million plus gods. I mean they got some gods
over there I mean, you know them some folk over
there starving to death and won't eat that big
old piece of beef walking across the field because
they believe that's grandma jones or grandma
ali kraman or whatever their name is they won't
touch it they won't eat it because they believe
they've reincarnated in that cow and they don't
want to eat that cow them folk dying and going
on being wherever they're going and being while
their bellies are swollen and hungry don't you
know i would get me a knife What you talking
about build me a little fire And when I finish
I'd be bloated. I would have eaten so much for
let me young you I would just be just loaded
off of steak all day long and they won't eat
a lot of various things because you know again
They see it as God's well the same principle
and please commit this to memory The same principle
is true as it relates to dealing with any behavior
any cult any occult any personality any religion,
anybody's thoughts process. Remember what I taught
you even here in the Jehovah's Witness and that
is you must always go to the head. Never, ever
forget that. So if you're dealing with someone
that doesn't believe in what's called a pluralistic
God or a motor or certain type of entities, even
if they just have a certain thought process,
always go for their head. And I don't mean hit
the head, but go for the head. And and and and
always go after the head. Well, this is what
I taught you concerning Jehovah's Witness And
that is go straight to who? To the head go to
Russell Russell is his name go to him exploit
all of his weaknesses and guess what when you
kill the foundation everything else is gonna
fall. Jesus said it this way. He said if a man
builds anything on anything other than that which
he has established, he said it's going to fall.
So if a man builds a great building on a sandy
foundation, I don't care how great that building
is, Jesus says not only will it fall, but I quote
the master, he says great will be its fall. Well
the same principle is true here with the Jehovah's
Witness. Now we've gotten into some of the other
but I want to get into the Holy Spirit part quickly
here. If you will look with me, if you will,
underneath they deny his personality as well
as his deity. Now this is important to note because
in understanding this, what you're going to find
is that when you deal with a personality, you
know that you're dealing with what? A person.
When you deal with a personality, it has to be
personal. So you can't deal with a personality
and not deal with some sort of person. And the
same thing is true, obviously, with the deity
or with the God. They don't believe that that
God was manifested in the flesh as we call or
as we say, the Holy Spirit. They believe the
Holy Spirit is not a he or a personality, but
they believe the Holy Spirit is a it. It's a
big difference. Let's look at the word of the
Lord and see now what the word of the Lord has
to say. Go with me, if you will, to the book
of Acts. Go to the book of Acts, the fifth chapter.
I listed it there on your paper. Boy, Tuesday
nights are very different than Sundays, aren't
they? I love Tuesday nights. Y 'all can keep
the crowd on Sunday. Give me Tuesday nights.
This is where you learn, right here. Tuesday
night service. All right, Acts five. Verse number
three, if you have it, say man. Pardon me. Let's
go all the way back up to verse number one. It'll
give us clarity. It says, but a certain man named
Ananias with Sapphira, his wife, they sold a
possession, which was really a piece of land.
However, verse two, they kept and they kept back
part. of the price his wife also being privileged
or privy i think your king james says to it or
in other words to the scheme and brought a certain
part or a only a portion of the funds note what
they did and they laid it at the apostle's feet
verse three but peter said ananias why has satan
filled thine heart to lie to The Holy Ghost.
Stop right there. If the Holy Ghost wasn't it,
you couldn't lie to it. Are you following? These
are basic English. I should have my wife teaching
part of this English part. She's much sharper
understanding the law. There are laws in English.
She shared one with me today. I told her, I don't
remember remembering any of that in school. Maybe
I went to the wrong school. What was that? That
an I, that an E can't follow I except for by
C? Y 'all know it, see, I'm sorry. I've forgotten
all. How many have forgotten some of these laws
in English? How many of y 'all didn't forget
it? Let me see you smart people. We don't like
you, we don't like you, we don't like you, we
don't like. We don't like you smart people. We
can't remember these laws. But note what the
scripture here says. It says, but Peter said,
Ananias, why has Satan filled their heart to
lie to the Holy Ghost? You can't be talking about
an it. it must be a personality and to keep back
part of the price of the land. While it remained,
he's still talking, Peter's still talking to
Ananias, he said, while it remained yours, was
it not thine own? And after, even after you sold
it, man, was it not in your own power? In other
words, you could've still did what you wanted
to do. Why would you agree with the rest of us
that you were going to be part of what we were
doing? Now, note something, you gotta catch this,
because this was something that the apostles
had said to the people that they had a right
to participate in. And one of the things, and
you can go back and read the rest of it for yourself
in chapter two, I mean in chapter four as well,
what you will find out is, is that when the apostles
or the leaders gave a declaration, they simply
gave the option to the people to say how many
want to be a part of it and they said we want
to be a part of it and and the Bible says they
all had one mind they were on one accord and
they were going to do a lot of great great things
with this and yet when him and his wife bore
greed is a horrible thing ain't it Mean him and
his wife agreed. I mean you got folk like that
in church. They get mad in the church and stop
giving time I ain't giving my time this week.
I'm doing my whole thing Oh y 'all just got set
up didn't even know you gotten set up with that
one Don't you know you're not lying. You're not
lying to glory to glory ministry You're tricking
yourself because the moment that you say that
you're bought with a price and that you belong
to God What we do whether it's tithing whether
it's giving offerings whether it's prayer whether
it's stuff the word whether it's just being kind
one to another we are commanded by the word of
God to do these things and so when we don't do
what we said we're going to do you're not who
do you think you're tricking how many know that
God has a record book and he's keeping record
and at some point you're gonna have to divvy
up some in some kind of way and God is a wonder
God has a way of getting folk attention I've
seen people hold back and and hold on and give
part and I say go ahead Lord do what you want
to with them I'm turning them over to you and
you know what God does? Blow on a job. Blow on
the house blow on the car and you can never seem
to get that thing together and you spend more
money Trying to fix and trying to keep and trying
to do if you would have just given god what belongs
to him You would at least had his favor and then
when things began to happen you could have said
you know What i'm all right with you god, so
work this thing out for me I didn't look for
a lot of amens out of that one because I got
two people three five Okay, all of y 'all are
on one accord. Let's go a little further. Let's
see what the rest of the word here says again
Verse number three says but Peter said Ananias
Why has Satan filled my heart to lie to the Holy
Ghost and to keep back part of the price of the
land? While it remained it was it not your own
and after it was so was it not in your own power?
Why has thou conceived this thing in my heart
that thou has not watched this you've not lied
unto men But unto God, I hope you caught the
deity right there. Did anybody catch it? Let's
go back somebody said I didn't catch it what
deity you're showing where god and the spirit
He likened the same again. You can see it right
here in verse number three Pardon me. Look at
hear the word of the lord, but peter said ananias
Why has satan filled my heart to lie to who say
it again to who? Come on one more time to who
look at verse number four go to the last paragraph
Thou has not lied unto men but unto who unto
who? He says you've lied unto the Holy Ghost
you lied unto God not only is Jehovah's Witness
murdered right there, but when I taught you about
Their understanding or lack thereof and you'll
understand it as we go down this sheet Not only
do we see God in the person of the spirit God
the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit,
but we also know that this is talking about a
personality. This is why when, and let me help
some of you. If you've ever been in a situation
where you've said, you know, I was gonna do such
and something and I don't know what came over
me. I just felt something said. Stop saying something
said. let me tell you who said it if it's good
that's the holy spirit speaking in your life
that's the spirit saying don't go that way go
that way oh i don't know why i went that way
some just came something just came to my mind
stop saying something know what can if it's if
it's if it's good guess what it ain't satan Satan
came to my mind and told me to go over and bless
somebody. How many know that don't even sound
right? Satan ain't gonna tell you to be nice
to anybody. Satan would cuss them out. The dog,
look at him. Now if that something comes, you'll
know who that something is. Come on, let me give
you another few scriptures and the reason I always
give you more than one. Number one, remember
the law. The law is that out of the mouth of
two to three witnesses, every word is established.
That is how you create doctrine, or that rather,
it's not how you create doctrine, that is how
doctrine is justified. God would never just speak
one word for us to interpret it to mean one thing
and nobody else understands. God is clear. God
always brings a witness. So let me give you a
few more witnesses. Go with me over to Acts the
13th chapter. Let me start at verse number one
and we'll end at verse number four, Acts 13.
If you have it, say amen. If you still turn and
say, give me a few more moments. I'll give you
the few moments while I drink water. I'll give
you the moment All right acts 13 and oh and remember
to do this as well If you if you've forgotten
if you were not here if you want to learn how
to take footnotes in your own Bible After we
give you this let's say that you're doing a study
as we're doing on Jehovah's Witness Go through
all the scriptures that I've given you during
some off time and just write JW and also write
where else that scripture is listed. So for instance,
when I gave you Acts five, three and four, and
now I'm giving you Acts. 13 to 1 through 4 you
can actually write over on acts 5 3 & 4 all of
these scriptures and it's just lining up your
Bible and that way if you're ever out if you
have the Word of God and you don't want to go
back and pull up a whole bunch of notes or download
something on your computer your Bible will have
all of your footnotes and this is no different
than what any other scholar does this is what
scholars do they simply go and cross reference
and cross reference and cross reference and I
recommend get a Bible that has some room to write.
Don't be like that lady. I think I told you all
the story when I was up in Connecticut. I was
doing that conference, that prophetic conference,
and I was telling the people in the day session
to write in their scripture, and I could tell
she was being bothered by what I said, and I
just went over to her. I said, mother, what's
wrong? I said, you seem to be a little agitated.
Well. Nah, man of God, I respect you, but you
telling us to do the wrong thing. I said, what
am I asking you to do that's wrong? Were you
telling us to write in our Bible? I said, what's
wrong with that? The book of Revelation says
don't add nothing to the word. So she thought.
She thought writing in her Bible and you know
what I did. I I didn't say anything I said mama,
please forgive me y 'all don't write in the word
She said cuz the Bible says if you add to the
word Jesus gonna take your name out the book
of life I said mama We ain't writing no more
in the scripture and I just let mama have her
way. So she thought bless her heart Alright,
come on. Let me go here. Acts the 13th chapter.
Look at verse number one Now, there was in the
church, now there were in the church that was
Antioch, certain prophets and teachers, as Barnabas
and Simeon, that was called Niger, and Lucius
of Cyrene and Manan, which had been brought up
with Herod, the Tetraic, and Saul. And they ministered
to the Lord and fasted. Watch this, the Holy
Ghost said, is that in your scripture? Now, If
the holy ghost said something how many know and
it can't speak If you go home and and your curtains
begin to talk You better have some oil in your
body to cast the devil out of them curds because
ain't no demon in those curds Satan come out
to curtains You better have some power to be
able to deal with this the bible here says that
the holy ghost says now not only do we see In
Acts the third chapter that the Holy Spirit as
a person also had Feelings and the way we know
it is because I'll give you that in a moment
because he was grief But it lets us know even
in Acts 5 During the first passage of scripture
that I gave you that that he could be in other
words Entreat or else you could never lie to
look at what it says again in verse number two
and as they ministered unto the Lord and Fasted
the Holy Ghost did what? Listen at what he said
Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto
I have called Them and when they had fasted and
prayed and laid their hands on them They sent
them away verse number four. So they being sent
forth by who? Who sent them forth come on say
it with me who sent them forth? The Holy Ghost
sent them forth. Let's go to another one Acts
the 21st chapter. I hope you're catching this
this again Dispels what the Jehovah's Witness
teach they teach that the Holy Spirit is an it
That's what they teach. It's an invisible force
Anything that is invisible that cannot speak
and has no feelings Cannot be what the Bible
teaches Impossible according to the word of the
Lord. All right acts to 21st chapter acts 21
verse number 10 if you have it say man Listen
at the word of the Lord here acts 21 and 10 It
says and as we tarry there many days the word
tarry just means to wait And as we waited there
many days, there came down from Judea a certain
prophet named Agabus. And when he was come unto
us, he took Paul's girdle. In other words, now
remember, and this is not part of the message,
but just for your information, when they talked
about girdles during that time, they were talking
about the sash that went around that held up.
The garments of of the usually men that wore
these particular garments that girdle held it
up And and so it's not talking about the girdle
that you go out and you lace up and okay I just
wanted to make sure that y 'all understood that
that's all Acts 21 verse number 10 one more time
verse number 11 rather and when he was come unto
us He took Paul's girdle watch this the prophet
did this he took Paul's girdle and he bound his
own hands and feet and he said thus Seth the
Holy Ghost So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind
the man that owns his girdle and shall deliver
him into the hands of the Gentiles Who said it?
How did the Holy Ghost say it through the prophet
Agabus? So we know that the spirit speaks he
Speaks as he wills when we get into gifts. You'll
really see it very clear Let me give you one
more and this would be just the clincher and
we'll leave this and we'll move on quickly here
Go to John st. John the gospel of st. John the
14th the 14th chapter st. John 14 St. John the
14th chapter When you get it say man, I still
hear some pages turning st. John the 14th chapter
st. John 14 Look with me quickly at verse number
16 and 17 as a matter of fact go all the way
back up to 15 Saint john 14 and we'll start at
15 and i'll i'll skip around here a little bit
look with me if you will at verse number 15 jesus
is speaking if you love me keep my commandments
and i will pray the father And he shall give
you another comforter now remember the context
of this particular word the reason this comes
up like this is because Jesus was about to leave
the scene and the men were afraid that he was
leaving what was gonna happen to us and Jesus
said if you love me keep my commandments and
I'll pray the father and he shall give you another
comforter that he he Everyone say he please underline
that word even in your scripture note what it
doesn't say it doesn't say It says he. How many
know he is a personal pronoun? How many also
know that he describes the gender? I thought
I'd throw that one in that's a free part won't
cost you anything all right look at what it says
one more time and I will pray the father and
he shall give you another comforter that he may
abide with you forever verse 17 even the spirit
now note something please note this in your scripture
the word spirit there is capitalized That's not
in small cap. Anytime you see in small cap, in
your Bible, anywhere, the word spirit, whenever
it is in small cap, that's dealing with your
spirit. But when you see it capitalize, that's
dealing with the Holy Spirit. How many know you
only capitalize when you're dealing with, well,
when you deal with a name, a name should be what?
Capitalized so it's speaking of a deity right
here and that deity is God 17 even the spirit
capital of truth whom the world Cannot receive
because it seeeth him not neither knoweth him,
but you know him for he dwelleth with you and
shall be in you Go to chapter 26, same book,
stay in the same book. Not 26, verse 26. Verse
26. Same book, St. John 14. Go with me to verse
number 26. Are you there? Listen. We'll go all
the way up to 25. These things have I spoken
unto you, being yet present with you, but the
comforter, note what's happening there again.
What is it? It's capitalize. The comforter. Why?
Because this is another name for the Holy Spirit.
He is the comforter. And in the Greek word. Oh,
God, I hope my Greek don't fail me now. I think
it's paracletus. It means that he that is stuck
to your side as well as in the center of you.
For all of you that have been to Bible school,
you'll enjoy this one here. I don't know if they
taught you, but it's also part of the Hebrew
word Yasha. That's Y -A -S -H -A. Yasha means,
it's where we get the, yasha is part of the word
salvation that is within you. You'll find that
word yasha in Zephaniah, the third chapter, the
10th verse, where the great. Prophet Zephaniah
was speaking and he was saying that what God
was speaking through him and he was saying for
out of Ethiopia will I call my supplicants to
bring unto me an offering and I will deliver
them from all that have oppressed them for I
am their God and I will give them or I will be
in the midst of them and that word midst is the
Hebrew word Yasha will we get the same word right
here and it means to be so centered on the inside
of you I wish I could preach that one right now
it means to be so centered on the inside of you
that even though you may think he's far away
he's only right in your midst that's and it gives
the idea in the Hebrew it means he that has so
much power that he moves like a whirlwind or
what you and I would call a hurricane now let
me tell you the significance when you have the
comforter you have so much power it's like a
whirlwind on the inside turn for what purpose
not just to give you goosebumps and to make you
run around the church but it gives the idea that
when the enemy is fighting against you when you
understand who you are you walk in knowing that
the spirit is on the inside and every time you
take a step that whirlwind begins to move everything
around you and it'll move stuff right out of
your way somebody open up your mouth and shout
glory in here Oh God is a powerful God. That's
why when you really understand this you won't
want I don't care I know all of us go through
stuff But when you really get this and understand
you have the comforter working up you ain't gotta
walk around I don't know if the Lord gonna answer
me if it be his will honey You can know what
his will is and his will is that you would overcome
His will is that you would abound his will is
that you would not just have a little but you
would be blessed and being an overflow Will is
for you to win and not to lose why because when
you have the comforter on the inside now What
is comfort for comfort is because you and I are
going to go through something You would need
to be comforted if you weren't gonna go through
anything, but God already knew he said I'm leaving
and if Satan have tried me He's certainly gonna
try you but he was telling us telling the disciples,
but don't worry Don't get all in a tizzy. Don't
have to go and take riddling and lose your mind.
Don't have to fire up up a blunt and over drink
your drinks because you gotta take the edge off.
Don't go out like that. He says if the comforter
is in you, he will give you power to over. That
means when your kids are acting crazy, when your
mama, your dog, your cat, your goldfish, everybody
cursing you out, you ain't gotta curse them back
out. You can just stand and know one thing for
sure, the comforter's on the inside and wherever
I go, he's already there and I'm going to be
victorious whether the devil I dare you to give
two people a high five and tell them you better
get the comforter. I gotta keep going because
we're gonna get caught up. I don't know if it's
rapture time yet. All right, come on. Let's go
over to one more chapter I want to finish this
part of the Holy Spirit here and see what he
says the 16th chapter stay in the same book But
go with me if you will over to the 16th chapter
This is important to take note of this here the
16th chapter Look with me if you will at verse
number seven is a matter of fact go all the way
up stay in 16 But go all the way up to verse
number five We'll we'll walk our way all the
way down to 14 listen listen to the word of the
Lord But now I go my way to him that sent me
and none of you asketh me whither goeth thou
But because I have said these things unto you
sorrow has filled your heart Jesus was about
to go out. You know, what can I read something?
Well, I better leave that alone I get cited when
I get into the word like this here look with
me if you will at verse number six But because
I have said these things unto you, Saul has filled
your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth.
It is expedient for you that I go away. For if
I go not away, the comforter will not come unto
you. But if I depart, I will send, look at that
word, him unto you. And when he is come, he will,
look at what his function is, a it, hear me,
an it cannot have a function. When you have a
glass it only has a function that you set for
it No pun intended, but you get it when you have
a glass how many know a glass has a function
I mean you can use it for a few things But primarily
instead of throwing it at somebody who you upset
with you usually put drink in it Amen, so but
watch watch the wisdom of that It's your job
to work the glass you got that but now go with
me in the word here go back down to verse number
five and verse number seven rather and I'm sorry
verse number eight and see how this works different
now again with the glass we make the function
but watch this and when he has come he will reprove
in other words he has his own function you can't
have your own function and being it Are you catching
that to have your own purpose? You have to have
a plan if you have a plan that means you have
to have a Prescription if you have a prescription
Oh, I hope you're catching this if you have a
prescription then that means you have to have
someone that prescribes the prescription You
can't take medicine. I'm going to Walgreens or
to Eckers. Give me some of your drugs. No, what
do you need? You need a doctor's Prescription
I hope you're catching this now look what what
he does verse 8 and when he has come he will
Reprove the world of sin in other words. He's
going to deal with the world about sin and of
righteousness and of judgment of sin because
they believe not on me of Righteousness because
I go to my father and you will see me no more
of judgment because the prince This world is
judged. Oh Father verse number 12 I have yet
many things to say unto you, but you can't bear
them right now How be it when he there's that
he again the spirit of truth is calm He will
guide you into Some truth. I just want to make
sure y 'all paying attention into all truth for
he shall not speak of himself But whosoever he
shall hear that shall he speak and he will show
you things to come He shall glorify Me for he
shall receive of mine and I and shall show it
rather Unto you is this clear or is this clear?
So again, when the Jehovah's Witness tell you,
well, the Holy Spirit, it's just an it. You have,
oh, a kazillion, if there was such numeric, you
have a whole bunch of scripture to just be able
to rattle off and go, wait a minute, it can't
be an it because, and you can then speak of what
his job is. All right. Now, some of this is self
-explanatory to you. If you look at the New World
Translation, let's go to that. I only have a
few more minutes here, and I want to wrap this
up. Note what it says, and I gave you these notes
here. The New World's Translation. That's the
Jehovah's Witness Bible. And this is gonna blow
you away. And this is another way, if you remember
how I told you and taught you to deal with the
head, you'll win this one every single time.
Note, it was first published, I mean, here's,
I mean, I don't even know if I need to go any
further. It was first published in 1950. Can
we stop and talk? Now, help me. Maybe I'm missing
something. How many believe that somebody knows
more than you? I don't see all the hands raised.
I mean, ain't nobody know more than me, honey.
I know everything. You just come to the altar.
We're going to cast that devil out of you. That
devil will lie to you. Somebody knows more than
us. Usually people that have been here longer
have had more experiences. no more than us. One
of the reasons I take counsel from older leaders
is because I don't want to repeat something they've
already been through. Why should I go through
something that they've already been through?
Teach me the pitfalls, that way I can avoid them.
Amen? Well, think about it this way. The Jehovah's
Witness, they published their Bible in 1950.
54 years ago, they came up with a revelation.
That means all these thousands of years God's
been speaking and over 66 your Bible is called
the Canon 66 different separate books by tons
of writers that lived in various places Didn't
know each other over several thousand years and
not one of their words contradict their words
But yet the Jehovah's Witness come up with something
54 years ago Look at your neighbor say that is
crazy, you know All right. Now I want you to
follow the train of logic if they came up with
it 54 years ago, how many can figure out? they
had to use some sort of an example to get to
their 1950 translation. Let me say it again.
If they used a Bible or if they created their
own Bible, how many know there had to be some
stories that were already told for them to at
least try to mimic? Well, if some stories were
already told for them to mimic, it would seem
to me that You know, you wouldn't take the story
and turn it into your story Why not go with the
story that already exists since that's the record
and that's the story that's already on record
That's like me coming to your house That you
own that you pay what's the electric people here
tico? I'm trying to learn this thing you pay
these things and and and I come in I I don't
knock on your door. I come in and kick your door
open Open your refrigerator. I eat your food
while you're there and I take myself Dirty as
I am and I go get in the center of your bed with
my shoes on and you come in the room and you
You wouldn't just sit there and go Oh praise
the Lord How many know I ain't going there? How
many know if I could survive Either your bat
your guns or something I'm a bold bold bold fellow
well the fact of the matter is pardon me the
fact of the matter is this is exactly what they've
done they've gone and they created something
54 years ago and you think about it like this
it's pure arrogance to take what has already
existed for thousands of years understand something
this has existed for thousands and thousands
of years and all of a sudden I know how to do
it better How are you going to be better than
God? So you see another way to argue the point
with them. Note what it says. Later, they didn't
stop there, they revised it in 1951, a year later.
They had to make some changes. I guess God forgot
something and he had to go back and tell them
something he forgot. How many know God doesn't
forget? And then 9 more years, 10 more years,
1961, they finished talking to God. And they
revised it one more time Their committee now
here's what you need to know and please underscore
this on your paper This is very paramount for
your success in dealing with the Jehovah's Witness
look at what it says it says their committee
had no known translators with with recognized
degrees in Hebrew Greek Latin Aramaic or any
other translated text They had no scholars. So
that's like me getting my boys together in my
house. Teach them a little Hebrew and a little
Greek and we sit and we make us up a new Bible.
How many know? Bad idea. How many know bad idea?
Alright, come on. Let's go further. Alright,
important note. Now this is important and this
is why I gave you the history here. Frank Franz,
who represented the translating committee, also
the fourth watchtower or Jehovah's Witness Society's
president, admitted Under oath, his inability
to translate language. Pastor, where you get
all this stuff from? Honey, it's in the court
records. It's called research. Seek and you'll
find. Under cross examination held on Wednesday,
November 24th, 1954. Paragraph A through B. While
being examined, Mr. Franz stated the following.
Question. Now remember, he was being questioned
regarding his ability to translate, understand
languages. It's very, very clear you can pull
these records up yourself as well. Note, question,
have you ever made yourself, have you also made
yourself familiar with Hebrew? Note what he says,
yes. How many know yes is yes? How many know
yes is not? It depends on what is is. When yes
is yes, that's all it is. It's an absolute word.
So you can't get away from this. Now watch this.
Follow the logic. Question, so you have a substantial
linguistic apparatus at your command? He answers,
yes, for use in my biblical work. Question, I
think you are able to read the Bible in Hebrew,
Greek, Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and
French. Note what he answers under oath, yes.
Later during the same cross examination question,
you yourself read and speak Hebrew, do you? I
don't speak Hebrew. You do not? No. Can you yourself
translate into Hebrew, Genesis 2 and 4? Which
one? How many see him squirming already in the
translation? Now, and they're pointing to it,
that fourth verse of the second chapter of Genesis.
You mean here? Yes. Look at what his answer was.
No. Now note what I put. Any basic Bible school
professor would never pass a first year Hebrew
student who could not translate the verse. Can
you imagine? He's the president of translation,
but he has no scholarship. How many of you all
have jobs? How many know that there are rules
and regulations to your job? When you went to
your job to apply, I'm assuming you had some
foreknowledge of something. Either you went to
school, you were trained in another department,
you had to acquire something, or they would teach
you that job on the job. Amen? When you, however,
As Frank province is, you go to the Bible, you
go to a printing press, and you create your own
Bible. How is it that you have no scholarship,
no academic prowess to be able to translate,
but in order to write a Bible, you have to translate
in several languages, but you don't know how
to translate? Are you all hearing me? The Jehovah's
Witness are flawed from their beginning leader,
Russell, even through their translations. Let
me finish this up. This is important to note.
I put you on the back some suggested reading
material. Please read this book. Now, saints,
let me say this to you. I know I always throw
a lot of books out at you to read. I beg you
become avid readers in this church. Don't just
go home and watch TV. Pick up a book. Let me
give you, let me give you a little history, a
statistic. If you want to become a ferocious
reader, an avid reader, buy a book and it need
one chapter a day. I don't care how big or small
it is. What it would do, it would develop a habit
of reading and you'll be able to begin to catch,
catch, catch. Now, on this particular topic,
it's just suggested you don't have to, but I
suggest to you if you want to read it, suggest
a reading material, 30 years, here's the book,
30 years, a watchtower slave. published in 56.
This individual, listen at what they state concerning
the Watchtower. Now this is a person who spent
30 years as a Jehovah's Witness. Hear the quote.
The Watchtower leadership, this is on page 2,
the last paragraph there. The Watchtower leadership
sense, and here's an indictment against us, the
church. The Watchtower leadership sense that
within the midst of Christendom were millions
of professing Christians who were not well grounded
in the truths once delivered unto the saints.
Stop right there. Note something. Note how they
began to be strong. They took a survey and realized
that most people that go to church were not grounded
in the book. They could shout, they could sing,
they could dance, but didn't know the word of
God. And you know what they did? They were like
a lion looking at a sick animal. That lion is
looking at his next meal. Listen at what this
individual who was in this organization stated.
It says, and who would rather easily be pried
loose. Let me start from the top of the Watchtower
leadership sentence, that within the midst of
Christendom were millions of professing Christians
who were not well grounded in the truths once
delivered to the saints, and who would rather
easily be pried loose from the churches and led
into a new idolized watchtower organization.
Where do you think they got all their converts
from? Church. Because people will not talk the
word of God. The society calculated. Note what
they're talking, the watchtower. The Jehovah's
Witness, they calculated, and that rightly, that
this lack of proper knowledge of God and the
widespread acceptance of hand of truth in Christendom
would yield of men and women if the whole matter
were wisely attacked. Look at that devil working.
The attack sustained and the results contained
and then reused in an ever widening circle. In
other words, they stood back and they realized
one thing about Christianity. Most folk that
go to church don't know their Bible and ain't
that like the devil? The devil says they don't
know the word. Please hear me saints of God as
your shepherd. When you don't know the word and
the enemy comes after you, you have no clue how
to fight him because you can't shout him out.
You can't put on your favorite CD and Hulk and
Buck and Honda, Honda, Toyota, Toyota real fast
and the devil gonna come out. The enemy understands
one thing and one thing only and that's what
Jesus defeated him with. The Bible says when
Satan came to Jesus to defeat him, let him up.
What did Jesus do? He didn't say, wait, let me
go get my tape series. Let me go get something.
He said, Satan is written. He knew the Word because
He was the Word. And if we're going to have success,
you need to know the Word. If you're going to
have success not just in understanding how to
deal with a Jehovah's Witness, but understanding
any attack of the enemy and as well as promises.
You can't even grab promises that are yours unless
you understand the Word that's attached to your
promise. The Word, the Word of God is like a
key. And if you don't have the right key to open
what's yours, you'll never get what God has for
you, even though He's given it to you. No different
than those of us that have children. You have
a child, you give that child a promise, but the
promise is predicated upon their act of obedience.
They don't obey, they don't get it. God has given
us everything that we have need of, but it's
in the Word. And if you don't know, you know
what, let me say this to you, I'm closing right
here. The fact of the matter is, and I mean this
with all of my heart, this never discourages
me. I've been doing this for too long to be discouraged
by simple things. Have you ever noticed that
I said this before? Most people, most believers,
never take time to become students of the word.
And they never get the things that God has for
them. The reason that most, and you can take
a mental note of this, never forget this, what
I'm about to teach you right now. Any time you
begin to become a student of the word, and please
hear me carefully, it means that you're going
to have to labor to get into it. Hear me, the
devil will fight you every, he'll do whatever
he can as long as he can keep you away from the
word. Everything will come up. Your head will
hurt, your nose will hurt, the hairs in your
nose will hurt. Everything. If something can
go wrong, it'll go wrong. And then he won't stop
there. When he can't get you with you, he'll
use somebody close to you. Family members, dog,
old fighter would get sick. Are you hearing me?
I'm putting that you do. You know why? He wants
to keep you away from understanding the Word.
Because in the Word is where your breakthrough
is. In the Word is where whatever is empty on
the inside of you. See, too many of us think,
well, uh -uh, if I could just get my relationship
right, let me tell you something. You can get
your relationship right and still be empty on
the inside. I counsel millionaires. I've been
counseling them for years. I know people rich
enough to buy all of us homes, just wherever
they want to buy them. But you know what? Many
of them are still empty on the inside. It's not
what fulfills you. We are created in the image
of God. And because we are, there is a part of
us that identify with God. As a result of that,
we should be hungry, or hungering rather, after
the things of God. But if you notice, whenever
it's time, whether it's in church or in your
private time, the enemy will fight you as it
relates to getting into the Word. I dare you
to make up in your mind that some portion of
the day you're going to study. I don't care if
it's for five minutes. You know what? All of
a sudden, five minutes, you can't even find it
in the day. You'll be like, I don't know where
all the time went. I've been so busy, I didn't
even get a chance to get in my world. Five minutes.
That enemy doesn't want you to be in the world.
You know why? Because you're going to defeat
them. When you're in the world, your spirit will
be caught. And when the enemy comes against you,
you'll see him come. You can defeat him in the
Word. Amen? Put your hands together for the Holy
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