Preservation of God's Word
Preservation of God's Word is needful in a nation that flaunts the truths of that Word. There is a movement in the land to dissect, withdraw, and violate its truths. There is a need to keep it in its perfect and undeniable truth, in an unaltered condition. We will take measures to protect wildlife or natural resources but when it comes to the Word of God there is reluctance to protect it in its unadultrated (or pure) form.
Rather than dissect the Word of God to suite one's own purpose or lifestyle it would be more beneficial to digest its content, to understand its sense, and our hearts to believe its truths, to allow it to mold and fashion us toward its intended purpose.
Translations of God's Word
We live in a time that there are many translations of God's Word. Oftentimes I hear the Word of God being read from another translation and the words are almost foreign to my ears. I once had a brother in the Lord ask my opinion of a new Bible he had recently received. I looked up Romans 8:1, which in the King James version reads: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. His translation omitted "who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." One can readily see that to leave off that portion of scripture would be detrimental to its intended message.
I grew up with the King James version and see no reason to change. We have seen many changes take place in the church in these latter days and not all for the good. There are many things that are "foreign" to me in regards to the church of today. It has shifted its colors in favor of more acceptable ways to promote growth with little regard towards "What thus saith the Lord."
God is Cultivating a People
The preservation of God's Word is even more needful in the hour in which we live towards the preservation of God's people, for the anointed Word of God, ministered under the power of the Holy Ghost (or that of God's Spirit) will accomplish that which is intended.
God is cultivating a people who will live according to His Word and share its precepts to others. In this late hour He is still manifesting His Word to bring forth fruit to perfection. Sanctification, holiness, and that of a righteous life before the Lord, are still just as needful today as yesteryear.

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