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Genesis Part II – Lesson 1

Non-Negotiable Truth

The Bible is non-negotiable truth. If you want to understand God, the destiny of man, or how you
are to live, the Bible is where it’s found. This is the faith which was once for all delivered to the
saints. (Jude 3) This is what we want to look at today—non-negotiable truth—and the challenge
from others who say that there is error within it. Is there error within it? If so, then it’s negotiable
truth. But it’s not. It’s non-negotiable.

The Bible is the Word of God

What you are looking at in the Bible is the very word of God, the precepts of life by which
we get understanding. It’s His word which He sends and by which He heals us and delivers us
from all our destructions. It reveals to you what your God is like, what His ways are like. It lays
out for you the beginning and the end and everything that goes in between.
As Peter was preparing to die (because God had shown him that the time of his departure
was at hand), he sat down to write one final epistle. He said this:
2 Peter 1:15-16 And I will also be diligent that at any time after my departure you may be able
to call these things to mind. For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made
known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of
His majesty.
People in that day and age were challenging the fact of whether Christ would ever really
return to earth and whether He would really set up His kingdom to reign, King of kings and Lord
of lords. Peter defends the fact that Jesus Christ is going to come. He said, “I saw Him. I was an
eyewitness of His majesty.”
2 Peter 1:17-18 For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance
as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, “this is My beloved Son with whom I am
well-pleased”—and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were
with Him on the holy mountain.
This is the Mount of Transfiguration, when they saw Jesus transfigured into His glory
along with Moses and Elijah who were standing with Him.
2 Peter 1:19 And so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay
attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star
arises in your hearts.
Peter is saying, “Look, I saw Him with my eyes. I heard God with my ears. I heard His
testimony about His Son, and yet I have a more sure prophetic word even than what I saw.” That
more sure prophetic word is the Bible. Peter tells us then how this word came into being.
2 Peter 1:20-21 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own
interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by
the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
In your hands you have the word of God written by men who were moved by the Holy
Spirit. They recorded for us the words of God. We have non-negotiable truth in our hands. You
may be familiar with these Scriptures but it’s good to look at them and to know where they are.
It’s good to cross-reference them so next to 1 Peter 1:20-21 write 2 Timothy 3:16-17.
Paul in his second letter to Timothy also knew that his departure was at hand. The Lord
had revealed to him that he was going home, that he was not going to be rescued this time. This
was his final hour so Paul takes quill in hand and begins to write his final epistle to his son in the
faith, Timothy. He tells Timothy what’s going to happen in the last days:
2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and
being deceived.
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They are evil men but also impostors, therefore they are not going to act like evil men but
will have a guise over them. If they’re evil men and in the church, they’ll act like they belong in
the church, like they’re truly born again.
2 Timothy 3:14-15 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become
convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you
have known the sacred writings… These are sacred writings, holy writings, books set apart
and chosen by God. They were canonized and put together to form the Scriptures: Your
faith that was delivered to you—the faith that was delivered once for all to the saints…)
which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in
Christ Jesus.
In other words, this is non-negotiable truth, wisdom that tells you how you can know that
you are truly going to be saved to live forever and ever in the presence of God, not in the lake of
fire where the worm dies not and the fire is not quenched.
Then Paul makes a statement: All Scripture is inspired by God. The word “inspired” is a
Greek word that means God-breathed: “Theopneustos” (θεόπνευστος). This word is used only
one time in the entire New Testament. This is where it’s used. It simply means “God-breathed.”
2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is inspired by God (God-breathed) and profitable for teaching
(or “doctrine”, which means, “What am I going to believe? What is the teaching that I am
going to embrace?”), for reproof (shows you where you’re wrong, where you’re off in your
thinking, understanding, or behavior), for correction (to show you what’s wrong and make
it right), for training in righteousness; (instruction in doing what God says is right.)
God is the absolute righteous God, so to be trained in righteousness is to walk according to
the way God says to walk. Unfortunately we live in a day and age, a time, where many—a great
majority—of those sitting in the church collectively are not living righteous lives. We’re living
in a time when men even in leadership have stood up and said that homosexuality and abortion
are all right. We have churches in great conflict over what is right and what is wrong. We’ve
come to the day when men are calling good evil and evil good. God says, “Woe to those who call
good evil and evil good.” This is non-negotiable truth. In other words, if you find it in the Bible,
you’re finding it in a book that was inspired, God-breathed, and is profitable for what you
believe, to show you what’s wrong, to show you how to make what’s wrong right, and to show
you how to live righteously.
You’re looking at a book that was not of man’s own devising. Men didn’t sit down to say,
“Let’s just write this.” No. Holy men, set apart by God (that’s what “holy” means) spoke as they
were moved by the Holy Spirit. Thus we have the mind and heart of God so that we know how to
live. The Bible tells us how to live. But the problem is this:
The church is not living that way anymore. The church is doing its own thing. It has turned
from what is true to what is false. It has turned from a clear understanding of the word of God to
its own understanding and ways, its own devising, its own reasoning. Why has this happened?

Old Testament Examples

In 2 Kings 22, we have an account of Josiah. Kay could teach a whole hour about him. In
the days of Josiah, about 640 B.C., when he became king, the temple of the Lord had been
greatly neglected. Josiah had a father, Amon, who was an evil man, and a grandfather, Manasseh
who did more evil than any of the other kings before him in the kingdom of Judah. Josiah came
to power at eight years old once his father and grandfather were dead.
2 Kings 22:2 And he did right in the sight of the LORD and walked in all the way of his father
David, nor did he turn aside to the right or to the left.
This is a young boy who at eight years old assumes the throne. Do you have an eight-year-
old? Do you want him ruling? No, but Josiah was ruling and was already better than his father
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and grandfather. Why? Because Josiah, despite this ungodly ancestry, ruled and walked in the
way of his father David. Therefore, this tells us that Josiah is of the lineage of David, and as
David was a man after God’s own heart, so was Josiah, not turning to the right or to the left.
It doesn’t matter what your heritage is. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had evil parents or
grandparents. That is no excuse for you to be evil. You are to be righteous. Your heritage does
not determine your destiny. It is God Almighty, and whether you believe Him or not, that
determines your destiny. So Josiah walks in the way of the Lord.
2 Kings 22:3 It came about in the eighteenth year of King Josiah that the king sent Shaphan, the
son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe, to the house of the LORD saying,
They went to the house of the Lord to clean it out because the beautiful temple that
Solomon had built was in great disarray. They had put up idols to the sun gods; they had male
temple prostitutes that had been in there being immoral. This is the holy temple of God!
Everything in Jewish life centered around the temple of God. The three major feasts of the
Jews that required them to come to Jerusalem three times a year were all centered around temple
worship. But now the temple is in disarray. It’s been neglected because of ungodly kings who did
more evil than the kings before them. As a result, Josiah wants to repair this gorgeous temple
that Solomon had built. Men were cleaning out the temple when they found the book of the law
which had gotten lost in the house of God. They brought it to Josiah, who was now 26 years old.
2 Kings 22:10-11 Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king saying, “Hilkiah the priest has
given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king. And it came about
when the king heard the words of the book of the law, that he tore his clothes.
The word of God had gotten lost in the house of God and for the first time this 26-year-old
king had the word of God read to him. When he heard it this is what he said:
2 Kings 22:13 “Go, inquire of the LORD for me and the people and all Judah concerning the
words of this book that has been found, for great is the wrath of the LORD that burns
against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according
to all that is written concerning us.” “God’s wrath is great against us because of this!”
Why? Because this is a book that tells you how to live. You can have a heart for God like
Josiah who accomplished a lot but when he finally came face-to-face with the word of God, he
realized how far off they and their fathers were from obeying it. As a result, God’s wrath was
great against them. As a consequence he had them go to the prophetess Hulda who told them,
“Listen. What God spoke against this house and against this people if they did not obey this book
is going to come to pass” because this is non-negotiable truth. As it is written, so it shall be.
Josiah was prophesied about by name in 931 B.C. when the kingdom divided. (1 Kings
13:2) He was called by name hundreds of years before he even existed. Now in 622 B.C. what
was prophesied about Josiah is about to come to pass because it is the word of God.
2 Kings 22:18-19 “But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the LORD thus shall you
say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel, “Regarding the words which you have
heard, because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you
heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become a
desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have
heard you,” declares the LORD.’”
In other words, “You found the truth, heard it and believed it. You responded and humbled
yourself, tore your clothes and wept before Me because you saw what I required. And you saw
that you had not obeyed. Because you have a repentant heart with a godly sorrow that leads to
repentance, even though judgment is still coming, it won’t come in your day. I’m going to
restrain it in your day.”
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What would happen in our nation or world if we embraced the word as non-negotiable truth
so that it became a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path? (Ps 119:105) What would
happen if we would begin to obey it and call others to obey it? What would happen if the word of
God, which has been lost in the house of God, was finally found and put back on the pulpit
where it belongs and in Sunday school classrooms? What if we heard the word of God and then
didn’t just come to church to find out how to become healthy or wealthy or successful or how to
have a good family life but we learned how to take the word of God which is the sword of the
Spirit, and to wield that sword, to kiss that sword, and to go forward into battle into a world
sitting in darkness that needs to see a great light, and we live righteously? What would happen if
we realized that this was the non-negotiable truth, the faith that was once for all delivered to the
saints and we made it our business to know this book inside and out?
Well in Josiah’s day, here’s what happened:
2 Kings 23:2-3 And the king went up to the house of the LORD and all the men of Judah and all
the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets and all the people,,
both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the
covenant, which was found in the house of the LORD. And the king stood by the pillar and
made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments
and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the
words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the
covenant.
This book that’s non-negotiable truth is made up of two parts: the Old Testament, or the
Old Covenant; and the New Testament, or the New Covenant. What would happen if we said
that we’re going to keep all the words of this book? If you go back to Deuteronomy 8 you’ll see
that this book is the very bread by which we live.
Israel is getting ready to go into the Promised Land after wandering in the wilderness for
forty years because they did not believe or obey God’s word. Now God says, “I fed you with
manna and sustained you with it all these 40 years. You gathered it every single morning, enough
for one day; on the Sabbath you gathered enough for two days.”
Deuteronomy 8:2-3 “And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you
in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what
was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. And He humbled
you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did you
fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone,
but man lives by everything (every word) that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.
This is truth. These are God’s words. You say, “No, they have man’s words in them.” No,
they are God’s words. This is what He says and time will show, as time just told you as written
in 931 B.C. that a king by the name of Josiah would burn the bones of all the false prophets that
worshiped at the altar that Jeroboam erected. It came to pass. As it is written, so it shall be. God
speaks and it is done in the fullness of time. Next to the Deuteronomy verse in the margin of
your Bible write “Matthew 4:3-4.”

New Testament Proofs

Matthew 4:1-4 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the
devil. And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry. And the
tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones
become bread.” But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread
alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”
What did Jesus Christ believe? That this was God’s book. That it came out of the mouth of
God and says how man is to live.
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John 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken
to you are spirit and are life.
This non-negotiable truth is a book of Spirit, a book of life. It comes from the mouth of
God the Father, God the Son, and by the power of God the Holy Spirit. It is life-giving. This is
different than any other book on earth. All other books are books of men but this is a book of
God. These are words of life.
As Jesus was preparing to go to the Garden of Gethsemane, where He would be arrested
and then on to Calvary, He prays for His disciples.
John 17:15-17 “I do not ask Thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil
one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth;
Thy word is truth.”
We’re in the world but we’re not of the world so Jesus says, “Father, sanctify them.”
“Sanctify” means “to set apart” through God’s truth. How am I set apart from the world?
Through truth. “Thy word is truth.”
Now if Jesus believed that it’s truth, who are you to say that it’s not? If Jesus likened His
resurrection to Jonah returning from the belly of the fish, who are you to say that the story of
Jonah was a myth of man? This is truth. It’s non-negotiable truth. It’s a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart because it is truth; because it is alive; because it is the word of God:
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to
judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
What does it do? Does it stop at closed eyes? No. Does it stop at closed ears? No. It goes
right on into the heart. It divides and discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart. People might
be sitting there sneering at you, disbelieving you, but the word is alive, powerful, and it’s doing
its work. Is it going to convert them? Not necessarily but it will leave them without excuse.
Sometimes it converts; sometimes it leaves them without excuse. To some it is a sweet savor and
aroma of life unto life, to others it is of death unto death, but it is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart. Someday people will be judged by it.
There is but one faith. Ephesians 4 begins the applications of doctrines Paul has taught.
Ephesians 4:1, 3-4a I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner
worthy of the calling with which you have been called,… being diligent to preserve the
unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit,
There is one body of believers. If you are a genuine believer in Jesus Christ as Kay is, you
both are part of the body of Jesus Christ. You are not enemies but brothers and sisters, members
one of another. There is one body and one Spirit
Ephesians 4:4b …just as also you were called in one hope of your calling.
That one hope of our calling is that we all, Jew and Gentile, all who believe, have the
promise of living with God forever and ever. We have the sure promise and hope of heaven. It’s
not an uncertain hope but a sure hope.
Ephesians 4:5 one Lord (Jesus Christ), one faith (the non-negotiable truth of the Bible) one
baptism,
We can know that this one faith that was once for all delivered to the saints is the faith that
we are to live by, that we are to die for. It is the faith that we are to earnestly contend for. This is
it—the word of God.
Kay wanted to show the role the word of God played in Moses’ life as in Exodus 33:7-11
where God spoke to Moses face to face. Instead she will show its role with Jesus, when on the
road to Emmaus after His resurrection, he turned to two men who had not recognized him and
were mourning because Jesus Christ had died though they had heard He had been raised from the
dead. Jesus turned to them:
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Luke 24:25-27 And He said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the
prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Christ (the Promised One, the Anointed
One) to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?” And beginning with Moses and
with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the
Scriptures.
Jesus is talking about the Old Testament: “What Moses wrote was true, accurate. What
Moses wrote told you of Me and revealed the fact of the Christ who was coming.”
If you look at Joshua, he was told not to let the word of God depart out of his mouth. It was
not to come in the ear and out of the mouth but come in and go down. He was to meditate upon it
day and night, to absorb it, to chew on it and digest it, then he was to do all that God commanded
him, not to turn to the right or to the left, even as we see that Josiah did. Joshua was to walk in
the ways of his fathers and then he would have success.
In Deuteronomy 17:15, 18-20 when kings came to power they were required to sit down
and write their own copy of the word of God. If the children of Israel had kept the word of God
when Manasseh and Amon went into evil, they would have known very clearly what they were
doing that was wrong. But by the time of Josiah the word of God was lost in the house of God.
The young king had a heart for God but if his forbears had carried out what they were supposed
to do in Deuteronomy, he would have sat and written Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and
Deuteronomy by hand. Scribes would have watched over him to make sure he did it absolutely
correctly, so that he might know how he was to lead his people and rule his kingdom.
Can you imagine what would happen if our president had to do that? If our leaders had to
do that then when they stood up to say that homosexuality is all right they would have known
that they were going directly against Leviticus 20 and other chapters that say: “No, it’s a sin; it’s
an abomination.” They would have understood about capital punishment and that blood pollutes
the land. They would have understood about the sanctity of life. They would have seen it over
and over again if they knew what the word of God said, if they understood that the Bible is the
faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. If they wanted to walk in truth they would have
walked in this way.
There are others, including Jesus who spoke the word of God. In 2 Timothy 1:14; 2:2; 4:2-
3 Paul instructed Timothy to guard the gospel, to entrust it to faithful men, to continue in it and:
2 Timothy 4:2-3 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke,
exhort with patience and instruction (longsuffering and doctrine). For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine but wanting their ears tickled, they will
accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires;

Gnostics and Marcion

When you read the New Testament, you see God prepare the church through the epistles
for the heretics and the heresies that are on the way. The first heresy propagated was Gnosticism.
The word “Gnosticism” derives from the Greek word “gnoses” which means “knowledge”.
This was a heresy that became a very serious threat to Christianity in the second century. It was a
special mystical knowledge reserved for those of understanding—a certain elite group who were,
so to speak, in the know and had certain knowledge that had been revealed to them. Common
men couldn’t have it, but these special people did. The knowledge they propagated was their key
to salvation. With it they concluded that all matter was either evil or unreal. Therefore, a human
being in reality was a spirit imprisoned in an evil body. Man’s goal was to escape from the body.
Some Gnostics went into asceticism, which was a denial of the flesh with a very stringent
life. Other Gnostics went the other way into a libertarian life where they thought that since their
bodies were evil they might as well let it be evil because it’s not going to affect the man inside.
Therefore they could live any way they wanted.
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Out of this Gnosticism came the Marcion Controversy. It’s because of this controversy that
the church came up with the Apostle’s Creed. Marcion disliked the Jews and the material world.
Around 144 A.D. he went to Rome and gathered a following. Marcion claimed to be a Christian.
He came among the Christians, brought this doctrine that was contrary to the truth and gathered
around him a group of followers so now a split occurred among the people.
He came up with a doctrine of two gods. One was the Old Testament god, Jehovah, who
created an evil world, but he’s not the supreme father. That god is the god of Christianity. This
supreme god of Christianity is not vindictive but loving. He requires nothing of us. He does not
seek to be obeyed but simply to be loved. Simply, out of compassion for us as Jehovah’s
creation, this Christian god sent his own son as a grown man who lived under the reign of
Tiberius. Marcion said that there’s no final judgment since the supreme god is absolutely loving
and will simply forgive us. So Marcion had an Old Testament god of judgment who created a
world of evil and a New Testament god who was the supreme father and loving.
All this god wants is for you to love him. You can live any way you want. Does that sound
familiar? There’s no judgment. God loves everybody so eventually we’re all going to end up in
the same place. Suppose you didn’t have access to hear, see, or read the non-negotiable truth.
You could be easily led astray.
Marcion set aside the Old Testament as the word of an inferior god and he chose only
sacred parts of the New Testament. He liked Luke and Paul and loved the gospel of Thomas. In
A.D. 144 the entire Bible had not been canonized. The Old Testament had already been
canonized and translated into Greek by the time of Jesus. But now we’re in the New Testament.
What gospels and epistles do we accept? Marcion liked Paul’s writings so he wanted them
included in his New Testament—except for one thing: Any Old Testament references you see
written by Paul or Luke, were really written by a Judaizer that contaminated Paul and Luke’s
writings. Therefore throw out all the Old Testament references. (Think about that when you
study Jude.) Marcion then attempted to put together his own version of the New Testament.
Then good came out of the evil: The church came along and denied Marcion’s doctrine and
began the process of canonization, choosing the books of the New Testament that they believed
were God-breathed. They accepted the four gospels, not just one. Thomas wasn’t included. They
accepted Acts and all the Pauline epistles. At the end of the second century the core of the canon
was established but in the fourth century it was finally completed and the debates were over.

The Apostle and Nicene Creeds

There was another result of Marcion’s Controversy and that was the development of the
Apostle’s Creed. The Apostle’s Creed was also called “The symbol of faith.” We think of a
symbol as something we draw but it was a means of recognition to distinguish true believers
from those who followed the various heresies such as Gnosticism and Marcionism.
When someone was ready to be baptized, the leaders would ask, “Do you believe in God
the Father Almighty? Do you believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was born of the Holy
Ghost to the Virgin Mary,” etc. They used the Apostle’s Creed to ask if they believed it. How
does the Apostle’s Creed close? “I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic church, the
communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the dead, and the life
everlasting.” This was the symbol of faith. When a person professes to know Jesus Christ and is
ready to be baptized, they are asked, “Do you believe…” He says, “Yes.” What he’s just said is,
“This is my symbol of the fact that I believe the word of God and what it says.”
Marcion came along with his Gnosticism saying that there are just a few elite people who
have the special knowledge. The rest of the people don’t. But the rest of the people were the
church. They said, “Now wait a minute. Where did our faith come from? Did Jesus, our
messenger, just give it to a few elite?” No! To whom did Jesus give the truth? He chose twelve to
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be his apostles. So the truth came from Jesus to His apostles to the fathers and was passed on
down. It’s not through one elite individual. We believe in the holy catholic church. This is not
talking about Catholicism, but the holy universal church, not just one or several individuals with
elite special knowledge but we, corporately, believe in the universal church, in the communion
of the saints. We have then a body of believers who know that the Bible is the word of God, non-
negotiable truth. They are going to stand and earnestly contend for the faith that was once for all
—no special elite knowledge coming in here but once for all—delivered to the saints. We have
the Old Testament, the New Testament. Jesus Christ, who is God in the flesh, speaks. The words
He speaks are Spirit and life. The words that He speaks are not His own words but the words of
the Father. They are recorded by holy men of God as in the Old Testament, who wrote out the
holy word of God. The Holy Spirit superintended it; the church looked at it and the church as a
whole, not one elite man, said, “Throw this out; keep this.” The church as a whole came up with
a consensus that this is the word of God.
It is to be proclaimed in season and out of season. We are to use it to reprove, rebuke and
exhort. We are to do it with all longsuffering. We are to do it with doctrine (solid teaching). We
are to do it because the time has come when men will not endure sound teaching. They turn on
television instead. There is so much doctrinal garbage on television but they don’t know it
because they hear special revelations from dreams and visions others have had which are not in
accord with the word of God. These people don’t know they’re hearing false doctrine because
they don’t know truth since the word of God has been lost in the house of God. We do
everything else except proclaim it. Not every church is like this but collectively across the land,
churches are not proclaiming it in season and out of season. They don’t say, “Open your Bibles.”
The Nicene Creed came into being in the 300’s because another man came along teaching
that Jesus was begotten of the Father, therefore He has not always existed. There was a time
when He was not. The Nicene Creed was developed by the church because they didn’t have
printing presses in those days. It gave people the basics of their faith. The Nicene Creed hit the
fact that Jesus Christ has always been and always will be. He is the Son of God. All this was
necessary because people got away from the Bible.
That’s where we’re at right now. We are away from the Bible therefore we don’t have the
plumb line of the word of God. Actually, we have it but we don’t know it. We don’t know how
far off we are or how out of line we are because we don’t know the truth.

Kay commends you for studying the word to show yourself approved unto God. She also
challenges you to take His word and let it heal you. Let it heal you by believing it. Then get on
with it. Instead of being a mission field you become a missionary—one sent forth with the word
of God, which is alive and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, a soldier sent forth
on the battlefield to the frontlines for the Lord Jesus Christ, earnestly contending for the faith
which was once for all delivered to the saints. You know as you go forth that it is non-negotiable
truth. It is pure unadulterated truth. You need to start teaching it to your children, to the
teenagers. Quit entertaining them but train them because our time is almost up. He who is
coming will soon be here. When He comes will He find faith on the earth? Join Kay and say,
“Yes, You will find faith upon the earth.” Kay has kissed the word of God. She has embraced
and absorbed the word of God. She will live for it and die for it. It is non-negotiable truth.