Hello, welcome again to unlock the Bible now.

I'm brother Scott Mitchell.

Very happy you can join us for another message out of God's word. I pray that something

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Why don't you join me for a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank thee for mercy and grace.

We thank thee for Jesus Christ who died for our sins.

And we thank you for the word that you've preserved for us and the Holy Spirit that teaches us.

We ask that you would bless us now with understanding and with the grace to believe the things that we read.

We pray that it would bring glory and honor to thee and to the Lord Jesus Christ, and that it would edify each one within

the sound of my voice. We ask this all in His precious name. Amen.

Today we're going to talk about the only begotten son. There are modern Bible translations that have

changed the term only begotten son to something else, such as one and only son. The feeling

might be that the term only begotten is archaic, although what really could be more archaic than

paleo-Hebrew or corne Greek in which the Bible was written.

It's odd to me that the same argument of updating Bible language is not used to modernize the works of Shakespeare or Chaucer.

I'd like to make the case today that only begotten son is not only the correct term to use,

it is the only one that fits our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ properly and describes exactly who he is. We will look at the first usage of

Only Begotten, which is found in John chapter 1, a passage very familiar to many of us, verse 14. And the word was made flesh

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