Exposition of I & II Thessalonians 3/3: The Doctrine of Scripture - The 'Word'

In this final of a trilogy of sermons Gavin considers the "word" of II Thess. 3:14. The sermon includes reference to the amazing Biblical archaeological discovery of two stone warning inscriptions from the Jerusalem Temple, relevant to the events of Acts 21 leading to the Apostle Paul's martyrdom (II Tim. 4:6-8). In this 400th anniversary year of the King James Bible (1611-2011) Gavin considers the Divine Inspiration and Divine Preservation of Scripture. His 3 broad points are: 1) While we find the "pure" "Word" of God (Ps. 119:137) in the Received Texts of the King James Bible, that does not mean that the Authorized Version is word perfect because only the underpinning Old and New Testament Received Texts are word perfect. But the AV is the best available English translation and so the one we should be generally using. 2) While the words of the Received Text are "very pure" (Ps. 119:140), nevertheless, there are many corruptions of Scripture that have been made. E.g., the corruptions of Mohammad's (or Mahomet's) Koran which claims Abraham offered Ishmael not Isaac; the corruptions of Joseph Smith's Mormon version which takes out an entire Book of the Bible; the corruptions of the neo-Alexandrians who following the Alexandrian Codices Vaticanus & Sinaiticus take out such passages as Mark 16:9-20 & John 7:53-8:11; or the corruptions of the Burgonites' Majority Text which takes out e.g., Acts 9:5,6 & I John 5:7,8. 3) While the Bible itself is without error of any type, men sometimes bring to it errors of interpretation e.g., those sometimes brought to it by Darwinists, or people promoting sodomy or abortion, or members of the Christian Science and Jehovah's Witnesses cults.