“If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;” – John 10:35
THE SCRIPTURE CANNOT BE broken. This signifies that when God promises to preserve his words unto every generation (Psalm 12:6-7), there is nothing in heaven nor in earth which can prevent their being preserved. This indicates that when Christ declared that “heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (Matthew 24:35), nothing is capable of destroying the word of God. The inability of men to literally translate every syllable from one language to the next does not prevent the perfect, pure, inspired word of God from being preserved unto every generation. The alterations of language and obsoletion of vocabulary does not prevent the perfect, pure, inspired word of God from being preserved unto every generation. The ignorance of wicked men who deny the holy scriptures are inspired and perfect does not prevent the perfect, pure, inspired word of God from being preserved unto every generation.
It is written, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31). Should not this same logic be applied to the very word of God, those wonderful words of life which will endure beyond the men who seek to destroy them, beyond the world which lieth in wickedness and has forever strove against the precepts of its Sovereign? What of mankind’s enmity against the holy scriptures? What of the unsaved religious masses contempt for the venerable King James Bible? Such pose no obstacles to the preservation wrought by the Everlasting Father. Such cannot change that “forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven” (Psalm 119:89).
If the word of God is not bound (2 Timothy 2:9), surely its Author is not bound, either. And if he is not bound, what right do men have to place limits on how thoroughly he can preserve his word? What right have foolish and ignorant men – pitiful mortals whose very breath is in the hand of the God they doubt and despise – to claim he who is before all things, and by whom all things consist, and with whom nothing shall be impossible, is unable to preserve his words in ways beyond the comprehension of the feeble human intellect? It is not for mankind to decide whether or not he who is the beginning, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain, who of old hast laid the foundation of the earth, who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, can likewise ensure his words are preserved forever. A God for whom it is impossible to lie (Hebrews 6:18) ought always be considered more reliable than men who perpetually lie (Romans 3:4).
No, the scripture cannot be broken. Wonderful thing, that. If they could, such would render the book of life by which the everlasting gospel is preached to be merely another religious tome which mixes occasional truth with heaps of myth and error. And we who have believed it, then, would be of all men most miserable, for what purpose is there to searching the scriptures, if they be not the God-breathed truths they declare they are? Should the holy writ be found to be yet another ancient text of human error purporting to be divine truth, then Christ is not raised; our faith is vain; we are yet in our sins; and they which have fallen asleep in Christ are perished, never to see the resurrection and the life they were promised. And “what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not; let us eat and drink, for to morrow we die” (1 Corinthians 15:32).
But, thanks be to God, the King James Bible, as God’s inspired, preserved word, shall not pass away. It will never be behind the times the way so many works constituting man’s “wisdom” require frequent updates and new editions. It remains as pure and truthful today as it was at the beginning, and as it shall be when the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up (1 Peter 3:10). Depend upon it, dear reader. The holy scriptures have always been true, and will always be true.
Yet, what good does that do you, if you perish without receiving their most important truth? The word of God exists for many reasons, chief of which is declaring the gospel of God. You may admire the holy writ, and do well to do so, but you are a sinner whose iniquities have set you at enmity with your maker, and condemned you to an eternity of punishment in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. So heavy is this condemnation that no amount of good deeds and religious acts can redeem you from it. Should things be left as they are, you will die in your sins and spend eternity suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
But these things need not so be. There is a way by which you can escape the wrath to come, a way by which you can dwell eternally in paradise. His name is Jesus Christ, and he, as the only begotten, sinless Son of God, died in your place on Calvary’s cross, shedding his precious blood to pay for your sins. After being buried, he bodily rose from the dead three days later unto the justification of those who believe on him. If you will but acknowledge to God that you are a guilty sinner who deserves to go to hell for your sins, and believe the gospel – Christ’s death on the cross for your sins, his burial, and his bodily resurrection – as your only hope for heaven, you will be saved. I pray you do so.