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hey man, thank you for that singing for leading us that Whaley, thank you Robbie, for the opening reading of the scriptures.

You know, there are a handful of churches around Arkansas that I've gotten to become familiar with over the years.

Lee Creek or brother Harold from is one of those but another one is is right here at Merrill Baptists and I've had the opportunity to preaching this Pulpit a few times now and then I've had the opportunity is is Wade said to preach at a church camp for several years.

And so a lot of you I know and you're like family to me and it's all I'm I'm grateful.

It's a tremendous honor to be here has tremendous honor.

I know that way to allow me to open up tonight so that these other brothers can correct anything that I may.

Name a stop on.

Listen, I understand let me just start out with this.

I will, cuz we got to get, we got to get started.

Let me just say this, I understand this is a Friday night crowd.

Understand you have a Sunday morning, folks, and then got the Sunday night folks, and you guys like the Friday night, folks.

That's what I'm really grateful that you're here, but but I really do think that there's some things that we need to consider.

And I think that there's something all of us can repent of tonight.

As we think about what I'm going to talk about, let me start like this.

It was a Friday night.

It's a Friday night in October.

Now, was a Friday night in October in the year, are not a Friday night with a Friday in October in the year.

1536, the date was October, 6th 04 hundred eighty-six years ago, yesterday on a Friday, there was a notorious prisoner.

In England, he had been imprisoned at this point for 16 months.

He climb the platform to be executed in front of a watching crowd in the sentence against him.

Was that he had to be strangled to death and then and then his body was to be burned at the stake.

This sentence was carried out by the way, but before it was carried out, they let this prisoner have an opportunity to speak.

His final words here was his final words is a Freire.

Really Lorde.

Open the king of England's eyes.

This notorious prisoner, of course, is a man by the name of William Tyndale.

Maybe you haven't heard of Tyndale before, but this man is more important than you might know.

Not only does the English language.

Itself, 00, adapt to this man, but one of the very reasons that you own a Bible today in the English language is due to this man's crime by the way, what was his crime?

Why did this man.

Why was he strangled to death?

And then burned at the stake, it was for this translating the Bible into the language of the common person in England in English.

And a 1520 S10 tail was a, was a tutor, a family tutor, and a little area Northwest of London and they would have dinners big dinners.

They would discuss things over the dinner.

There was a huge in that was pushing for reformation a little bit.

This is right, and you'll 1517 Begins.

The Reformation unofficial date, and then in the 15-20 $10, he's pushing for reformation in, there's the family was Catholic.

They didn't like it one night, they're just Catholic scholar at the table.

He says this to Tyndale, we were better.

Be without God's law than the Pope's and I'll where's Carla says, it'd be better if we can have God's law rather than the post, we need the post and in response, $10 speaks his famous words, he says I defy the pope and all his loss.

If God spare, my life are many years.

I will cause a boy that drive with the plow.

She'll know more of the scripture than that dust.

How many ways Tyndale did just that 3 years after his death is, his prayer was answered really the king of England, authorized the Tyndale translation, it ends up being an an enormous success, and an enormous help.

Even to the King James translation with his publishing 1611 And so now for the last five centuries thing about this, we have had English-speaking plowboys outsmarting the Pope's.

The pope can't tell me what to do.

Hate speech, not even in my Bible because I can read my Bible and I can see it at the propane.

On the throne.

Jesus is Prince of you consider tonight.

As we begin what a treasure and wonder and Glory it is that we have a Bible today in any language, let alone that we have a Bible in a language that we can read and understand and obey We have the words of our Almighty, inflict Triune self-existent God, in a language, in Arkansas can understand.

This it irreconcilable authoritative necessary.

Clear and sufficient book tells us who God is, it shows us who we are.

It is a testimony to the glory of Christ.

Jesus says that all scripture bear witness about him.

Praise God for men, like John Wickliffe for men, like William Tyndale for me, like John Rogers, men throughout history have given great sacrifice to get this holy book of God's into the House of Commons people.

Praise God, for plowboys who can read God's book, No, I am responsible to get to the sermon here in a minute but before I do, let me ask you a question.

Again, this is the Friday night crowd, understand, praise God.

That you're here tonight.

But since this is the very word of our great and glorious, trying God, who testifies to the Glorious Christ, Our Redeemer, who is sing about tonight.

This is the books of God in our language.

Why are our Bible so dusty?

Charles Spurgeon said, there's just enough on some of your Bibles to write damnation with your fingers.

I'm going to call it like it is.

It is my conviction today.

I'm not far from you but I think it's about well with Conway traffic, it took longer than it should have, but I'm not far.

I know this area, you know, my area.

Is my conviction today that one of the great Perils of professing Christians in the Bible Belt, the Bible that his we do, not read the Bible.

We have time for Netflix or football or social media, but we don't have time to read the good book.

People who are not spending time in the book, personally, they don't read it with their families safe.

Even in a typical Baptist Sunday school class, people may spend 30 minutes gossiping about prayer requests and then maybe 15 minutes doing a lesson and then it turns out that that lesson is not even really read the scriptures.

But just someone else's idea about the Bible and the guy who wrote The Lesson was on a laptop and Starbucks with $8 coffee.

And what he was worried about was being politically, correct and culture acceptable at the moment more than he was worried about God's word.

The friends, this is the state of the Bible Belt.

Because of men like William Tyndale.

We live in a day with unprecedented access to the English Bible, unprecedented on your phone in the store copies upon copies upon copies, you can get Bibles in the local Goodwill for a dollar.

We have more access to the Bible, in a language, we can read and we have the ability to read and we have the time to read and all of that together, put all of that together and you have to say that from the creation of mankind to today in 2022, Our Generation has more access to the word of God than any other generation in the history of the world.

And yet.

We are equally the most biblically ignorant generation in the world.

By the way, turn to Jeremiah 6.

You start turning the chair.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure that.

If the plow boy and tyndall's day, who couldn't read God's word in his own language, might not have more knowledge about God's word, then some pastors and deacons in churches today.

Attend that would be rolling over in his grave.

If he could, he can't.

He was burned at the stake.

the point being that the state of our Bible knowledge today,

Compels us to consider.

The sermon that I've been assigned this evening and that is the church's way regulated.

The by scripture,

I hope there's not people like this in this room, but if there is praise God, that you're hearing, and you can repent tonight and you can change, but we have people in Baptist circles.

They don't even know what the church is.

They don't really understand what the church is.

There's a social club, understand?

They don't understand the leadership of the church.

They don't understand the mission of the church.

All these things wrapped up in this one true that I've started off with, we don't know our Bibles.

So tonight the church's way, regulate about scripture, my Texas, Jeremiah six.

It is more of a topical message, but we're going to read Jeremiah 6416 and I'll walk through some exegesis of the text and then and then we'll get into the topic of tonight's sermon, Jeremiah chapter 6. Would you stand with me in the honor of reading?

God's word?