TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Date: September 30, 2026. Lesson 193-2026. Proverbs 30:5-6 - Every Word of God Is Pure

Episode Date: September 30, 2026

In this edition of Morning Manna, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart examine Proverbs 30:5–6 and one of Scripture’s strongest declarations about the reliability of God’s Word. “Every word of God is pure.” His Word has been tested like precious metal in the fire and found without impurity. Because God has spoken, we can trust Him completely and take refuge under His protection. Agur then gives a serious warning: “Add thou not unto his words.” When we add human traditions, doctrines, or opinions and attribute them to God, we are no longer explaining His Word; we risk misrepresenting the One who spoke it. God’s Word does not need improvement. It needs to be believed, obeyed, and faithfully proclaimed. Lesson 193-2026 Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart You can partner with us by visiting MannaNation.com, calling 1-888-519-4935, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961 MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today! www.megafire.world Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves! www.AmericanReserves.com It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today! www.Amazon.com/Final-Day Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! www.books.apple.com/final-day Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. www.Sacrificingliberty.com

Welcome to morning my north. Welcome to morning, my new ritual north. Your teachers, Reckwiles and Dr. Burkla. Get your Bible and notebook and get ready to here before. I've got two questions for you this morning. Do you believe that every word in the Holy Bible is true and pure? And do you trust God with all your heart, mind, and soul? That's the topic we're going to be talking about today.

My name is Rick Wiles. This is Morning Manna. And we study the Bible. And we do our best to help people understand if we teach in it, just plain simple everyday language and try to convey what the Word of God means. All of our lessons are archived at manna nation.com. Today's lesson number is 193-206. And if you visit manonation.com, check out there's a heart in the upper right-hand corner.

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lesson on morning now. Let's pray. Almighty God, our Father in heaven. Father, we do believe you. We believe that your word is pure and we believe that you do exactly what your word says you will do. And we give you praise and thanksgiving and glory and honor. Now, Holy Spirit, please preside over this Bible. study and inspire brother burkhart and myself to teach your word in a clear unmistakable manner and i pray that the spiritual eyes and years of everyone watching will be open today to receive understanding of your word in the name of jesus christ amen amen well we're going to continue our journey here in chapter 30 which has been a fascinating journey up to this point, both doctrinally and prophetically,

as we've seen so far here in the words of our teacher, Agar. Now, Agar has a completely different tone and a completely different perspective than Solomon's previous 29 chapters. And so you see that reflected here in the wording, and you'll see that reflected today. as we look at verses 5 and 6 of chapter 30. So if you have your Bibles, read along with me.

I'm going to be reading from the King James and the Septuagin here this morning. And so let's get started here. Verse 5 of chapter 30, every word of God is pure. He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. I like that. The Septuagint reads as follows,

For all the words of God are tried in the fire, and he defends those at reverences. Add not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be made a liar. So generally the same tone. Minor differences there. So here we are. Proverbs chapter 30, verses 5 and 6,

and we arrive at exactly the right moment here in our teacher Agger's argument. And the placement here is key to understanding them. If you recall, back earlier this week in verse two, we can, verse two confess that Agar is more brutish than any man. He was humbling himself with his lack of understanding about the total wisdom of God. Now, verse three denied that he had learned wisdom or acquired the knowledge of the Holy One. Then in verse four, it asks six questions whose unanimous answer is no man, nobody. if you recall from yesterday's list,

nobody has ascended to heaven and returned with what God knows. And that argument establishes a genuine dead end. If that's where we left things, then we would be of all men most desperate, desperate rig. If the knowledge of God cannot be reached by human investigation

and Agar has demonstrated this much, then the matter would seem to be closed, but verse 5 has the answer. This is where you see the pivot take place here in chapter 30. Man cannot ascend, but God has spoken

in his word, Agar says, is pure. So the movement from verse 4, now to verse 5, is a movement from the impossibility of human discovery to the sufficiency of divine revelation. And so

Agar asked, who can reach God and he establishes, well, nobody can't. And then points to what God has already said. And then as we get into verse 6, it adds the corresponding warning. Since the word is complete and pure, nothing may be added to it. Now, these two verses together form one of the most important statements about scripture in the Old Testament. It's purity, its sufficiency, its protective function, and its involuntability. What that means is it can be fully trusted. So today's lesson, our goal is to examine each of these four claims

and to share why Teacher Agger's confession of ignorance was the necessary setup to get to this point. Rick's going to start us off here with his examination of verse 5. Rick. All right, Doc, this is going to be fun. All right. Verse five, King James Version, every word of God is pure. He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. It's a great opportunity just to shout, amen. Every word of God is pure.

Okay. The Hebrew word is serifah. and it's a metalworking burl. It means to smelt, to refine, to test in a furnace, to purge of dross. This is a word used by blacksmiths and refiners of precious metals. It describes

what happens when ore is heated until the impurities separate and rise to be skimmed away. So the word pure, as used here, it's accurate, but it's incomplete. The word does not merely say that the word of God contains no impurity. It says the Word of God has been through the first. fire and came out with nothing left to remove. The Greek Septuagin puts it this way. All the words of God are tried in the fire. Now, King David in Psalm 12, verse 6, used the same phrase.

The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Seven, the number of completeness, not refurb. refined once, but refined to the point where refining can accomplish nothing further. We've encountered this metalworking vocabulary in other places in the book of Proverbs. Chapter 25, verse 4, take away the draws from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel. Verse 27, verse 21. as a finding pot for silver and the furnace for gold,

so is a man to his praise. What are we learning here? Fire revealed what is genuinely there. That is the whole function of a furnace. And Agar applies it to Scripture. He's saying the Word of God has been tested and nothing false separated out because there was nothing false in it to start with. Why would the word of God be tested by fire seven times to show you that it was pure before it went into the fire?

Right. It withstood the greatest heat. There was nothing impure that came out of it because there was nothing impure in it when it went into the fire. If there was anything impure in the Word of God, then God is not who He says He is. There can be no lies, no false laws, there's nothing in the Word of God. Or He's not God. Look at the scope. Every word.

Not the Word of God generally. Not its main teachings. Not as central message. Every word of God. The Hebrew Word is... Call him rot. It means a spoken utterance, a saying, a specific word. It's not an abstract concept.

Agar is claiming purity at the level of individual statements. He's saying that what comes out of God's mouth is pure. Matthew Henry observed that a word has passed through fire and lost nothing, has demonstrated that it had nothing to lose, and that this is the only kind of word a man or woman can afford to build his or her life for it. Yes. And so, Rick, the theological significance here of verse five,

and that verse clause is that it states in one single line what later theology would call the inerrancy and purity of Scripture. Once again, I just sit back in awe, not especially this journey through Proverbs. We've taught Proverbs before. Just how doctrinally heavy Proverbs really, really is. And this is a perfect example of it here, confirming the inerrancy and the purity of Scripture, the Word of God. Psalm 1830 says the same thing in the same kind of terms here. It says, as for God, His way is perfect.

the word of the Lord is tried, he is a buckler to all those who trust in him. And so the correspondence between Psalm 1830 here and our verse today in verse 5 in proverb 30 is close enough to be more than coincidence and striking. That tried word and the shield appear together in both in the same order. Psalm 119, the longest chapter in Scripture, and entirely devoted to the Word of God, repeatedly returns to this same theme over and over again. It says, thy word is very pure. Therefore, thy servant loveeth it.

Example from verse 140. So the New Testament grounds this in the word's origin. Now, if you look in 2 Timothy, chapter 3, verse 16. what does it say? It says all scripture is given by inspiration of God. All scripture is given by inspiration of God. You have that Greek word, Theonustos. What does that mean? God breath. Theonostos, God breathed. And 2nd Peter 121, Holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. And so when we talk about the purity of the Word of God, the purity of the Word follows from the purity of the source.

It's pure because the one who spoke it has nothing in him requiring refinement. And yet he still allows it to be tried. Think about that. Now, that second clause, and it's not a change of subject, by the way. He has a shield unto them that put their trust in it. And if we look in the Hebrew, that Hebrew word magein is a shield. Specifically, it's not like a big giant shield. There's a smaller, more maneuverable shield carried on the arm rather than a full body shield.

And so the verse here moves from a thing now to a person. The word is pure and God, God him. himself is a shield. Now, our teacher, Agar, does not say that the word is a shield, though scripture says that elsewhere. It does say that in other places. He says that the one whose word it is shields those who trust him. And so what we can take from that is that the reliability of the word is what makes trust in the person reasonable. And the trust is what brings a man under the shield. So the sequence is the word is tested, therefore God can be trusted, therefore those who trust him are protected. And if we look earlier in the scriptures, we look in Abraham's own experience, Genesis 151, where God says, fear not Abraham, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward.

So God has personally identified himself as the shield previously did this. And those are the words spoken by God himself to a man who had just been given a promise he would have to believe for 25 years. Abraham, I'm a shield. I am your word. And Charles Spurgeon observed that the purity of the word is what makes the shelter usable. since no man can take refuge behind a promise he suspects may be defected which is why agger placed the two truths in a single verse precisely because they depend on one another the word is pure and god is a shield he's the protector of that word that's right let's take a look at the greeks of tuagin translation of verse five start with the king james every word of god is pure he is a shield and of them that put their trust in him. Greek Septuagint, for all the words of God are tried in the fire,

and he defends those that reverence him. Two things that I think are worth pointing out. The Greek makes the furnace explicit. The word that's the Greek word that's used here for furnace actually comes from Pairu which means to set on fire to burn to test by fire

so where the English must choose between pure and tried the Greek states it as tried in the fire now the Greek translators working from the Hebrew manuscripts, centuries before Christ walked in Palestine, understood that this word serifah, the furnace, right? And they rendered it correctly.

The same Greek root appears in Revelation 318, where Jesus warned the Laudician church to buy gold, pride in the fire. And then in 1st Peter, chapter 1, verse 7, where the trial of faith is much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried in the fire. Same words, Doc. Yes.

So keep that in mind. That's why studying Proverbs this time has just been seen. So revelatory, Rick, in that you see so many connections in the New Testament now. This is a perfect example of that. Now, here, the second feature here in the Septuant Virgin is a genuine shift. So in the King James says that he is a shield of those who put their trust in him. And the Hebrew word is Hussah to take refuge, to flee for shelter. Now, the Septuagint words a little bit differently.

He says he defends those who reverence him, those who hold him in godly fear. And so the Greek word here, Yulabe al-Ahi, means to stand in holy awe and reverence. And so if you'll picture this, the shift is from taking refuge to holding in reverence. And the two actually complement each other rather than compete against one another. So a man or woman, for instance, who genuinely reveres God, is going to take refuge in it, right? Because reverence includes an accurate estimate of where safety actually lies. If you're reverent, you know who your God is and in whose rock you may reside in. And a man or woman who flees to God for shelter has, by the fleeing,

acknowledged something about him and his reverence. And so together the two traditions describe both halves of the posture. Really, that brings a person under the shield. First of all, reverence toward God, and then we run to Him. It's a flight to Him. So, Rick, let's look at verse 6. What are we looking at here? King James says,

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. This one is a chilling warning. This is every one of us. Every one of us needs to ponder the meaning of this verse,

verse six, add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove you and you be found out to be a liar. This is why it's so dangerous. to add or subtract from the word of God. Just teach it as it is. Don't be trying to say, well, Jesus really didn't mean that.

Well, he said it. It's right there. Yes. That's why we have so many denominations. Because people are adding and subtracting from the Word of God. The command is a prohibition. It's not a suggestion. If every word of God is always, refined to the point where nothing further can be removed because there was nothing impure in at the start with,

then nothing can be usefully added. Why would you add something to something that's pure? How could you make it better? This is why we are not permitted to add to the Word of God. A substance purified seven times does not improve by having something mixed into it. But again, the word was refined by fire seven times, but there was nothing impure to be brought out of it by the fire. The point of the sevenfold fire test is to show you, no matter how many times you try the Word of God by fire, nothing impure is going to come out, because there's nothing impure in it to start with.

So the logic is the reason these two verses belong together, verses five and verses six, okay? It establishes the completeness. The Hebrew word yassaf means to add, to increase, to do again, to continue to augment. So Agar is forbidding augmentation. And notice what he does not say. He does not say adding to God's word is unhelpful or unnecessary or presumptious.

And all three are true. He says adding makes a man or woman a liar. You don't desire to be called a liar by God. It's one thing to be called a liar by humans. Don't be called a liar by God. lest he reproved thee and thou be found a liar, that you be, you be found to be deceptive, to be false. His word is pure, and when you add to it, he says, hey, wait a minute, you're the one who's impure. That's right. You're the liar. You're the liar. You're the liar. And that's really, Rick, the sharpest thing about this verse.

Because a man who adds to God's word is not merely exceeding his authority. he's attributing to God something God did not say. That's what makes him a liar, which is a false statement about God, delivered in God's name. That's why God calls him a liar. And so the seriousness of that is hard to overstate. Now, if we refer back to Deuteronomy,

chapter 18, and verse 20, it assigned the death penalty for it. I'll just read it for you. The prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my God's name, which I have not commanded him to speak. Even that prophet shall die. And so that phrase, lest he reprove for, who's the he, God, lest God reprove thee. And that word reprove is the word Akha. And it's not just, well, you know, you did a bad thing. No, no. It means to argue a case, to correct someone, to convict someone of a crime. I mean, that's a pretty, strong word there, lest he convict thee. The same verb, this series examined back in chapter 28, verse 23, in the, if you recall, the faithful reprover, it's that very same word.

And so God himself will do the correcting. No human being will be doing the correction. It's God that's involved in this. And that correction is going to establish what that man's addition, actually. was. So, example. Let's ask, what must a person do to be saved? And most modern church leaders will say, repent and believe in Jesus. And that answer is partially correct. There's truth in that statement. But ask the same group of people there, Rick, must a person be baptized to be saved, and they will say emphatically no,

even though Acts 238 says repent and be baptized for the remission of your sins. So it's, you know, this is a tough thing there that they have to deal with. Either God's word, Rick, is true or not. You know, you've got to call the word of God what it is, and that's the truth. Tried in the fire, tried seven times.

Why? It was true to begin. with and it's been proved over and over and over again, Rick. Are you said, Doc, you just brought up an example of how people change the Word of God and will get angry about it. And actually, you'll have church splits, you'll have new denominations, you have walkouts, everything over this one verse, two verses by Jesus in Mark 16. Verse of 15, 16.

And he said unto them, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Okay, we all agree on that one, right? That's the great commission. Then in verse 16, He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. But he that believeth not shall be damned.

Now, you ask most evangelicals, do you have to be baptized to be saved? They'll go, no, no, no, not at all. But what did Jesus say? I don't know right now, Doc. There are people who are becoming agitated watching us. They're becoming agitated right now. Right.

Yeah. Why am you, I'm asking you something right now. Why are you agitated? Yeah. Why are you agitated over me reading, word for word, what Jesus said. Why is that upsetting you? Because you've added to the word. Yes. And God calls you a liar.

I'm sorry. I'm just quoting him. You add to his word, you're a liar. Jesus said, he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. But he that believeth not shall be damned. The second part teaches that baptism alone does not say, Yes. Baptism alone does not save. They go together, believing and baptizing. Okay?

They have to both be done together, believing and baptizing. Who said that? Jesus Christ said it. Yes. And then Peter affirmed it in Acts 238. And so, I mean, to me, it's pretty clear, Rick, and you have two groups of people. People who have been baptized, and yet it bothers them because Aunt Edmund never got baptized before she died,

and then people who haven't been baptized. And you have to ask the question, are you afraid of water? What's the reasoning there? No, you're choosing not to believe the Word of God. Now, either the Word of God is true, and you live with it, or it's not true, and you have to live with the consequence of it.

God calls you a liar. So the theological framework that verse 6, brings out, really. I hope our classmates understand this today is the doctrine of Scripture's complete sufficiency. And the idea here, the prohibition, the Agra states here appears at three points in the Word of God.

And so I'll give you three examples here, three places where this occurs. So near the beginning, Moses states it to Israel. First in Deuteronomy 4-2, it says, you shall not add unto the word I command you, neither shall you diminish off from it that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God.

Kind of let that settle there for just a moment, you know. And again, Deuteroni, chapter 12, verse 32, what thing whatsoever I command you observe to do it? Thou shall not add thereto nor diminish from it. And then in the middle, we got, Teacher Agar, he's stating it here, and then to put the capstone on it in Revelation chapter 2, starting at verse 18, for I testify unto every man that heareth the words of this prophecy and of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life. Rick, it's pretty clear to me that God said it, and there used to be the same. Remember back in the 80s, Rick, God said it. I believe it, that settles it. Well, I take out the I believe it part. God said it, that settles it.

That's right. It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. It just settled anyway. It don't matter whether you believe it, boy. But once it comes out of his mouth, it's settled. So, Doc, what you just gave us, three statements of the same prohibition. At the beginning of the Bible, the middle of the Bible, and the end of the Bible. And notice that Moses and John both forbid subtraction and addition.

Now, Agar mentions only adding, but the principle is the same. So a word that has been refined seven times cannot be improved by addition or subtraction. So both operations assume a deficiency that verse five has already denied. And, you know, Jesus said, full will ye reject the commandment of God that ye may keep your own tradition, making the word of God of none effect through your tradition. The Pharisees did not deny Scripture. They surrounded it with religious traditions.

So, you know, we could ask this question about a number of popular doctrines in modern churches. They contradict what Jesus said, contradict what the Bible says. Yes. Look, we're living in the new covenant. This is not part of this lesson today. We're in the new covenant. You can't bring old covenant the law into the new covenant and teach it as of, well, God said he gave the instruction to go kill all the, you know, all the wicked. That's old covenant.

You have to know the context of it. But if we just take the new covenant, there are churches today that deny certain things that Jesus said. For example, Jesus said, if you do not eat my flesh and drink my blood, there is no life in you. Jesus said, this is my body. This is my blood.

He didn't say this is a cracker, and this cracker represents my, my flesh. And this is a couple of great Jews. He didn't say that. No, he equivocated it. This is. This is. And, you know, you can try to work your way around it and do all sorts of twister games. But you, really, Rick, this passage today is about the word of God and about our trust in the order. Do we believe it? Do we really believe it? Or like Jesus said here, you know, in Mark chapter 7, you've made the Word of God

and turned it into traditions. You've rejected the commandment of God and you've kept your traditions. Well, that's what my preacher taught me. That's what, you know, I've always been taught. Well, maybe you're wrong. Maybe that preacher was wrong. Maybe the Word of God is right.

Maybe the Word of God is true. Because what you've done is you've made the Word of God of no effect. People can be sincerely wrong. I taught things years ago that I sincerely believed at the time, and I was sincerely wrong because I taught what other people taught me. And then the Holy Spirit showed me that's not what God said. And I had to change.

Once you come to that place that you agree that God's word is pure, it just makes life easier. I don't have to go to a seminary to be told that's not what Jesus meant. I'm just so simple-minded. I just believe it. I just read it and believe it and go on with my business. It makes life so much easier, Doc. I just read it, believe it, and go on with my business. There's nothing to argue about, nothing to wrestle about. That's what Jesus said. Let's take a look at the Septuagint Translation for verse 6. King James ad nod unto his words. lest he reprove thee, and thou be made a liar, Septuagint, and not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be made a lie.

These are identical. Dockland, on this one, King James and Septuagin are word for word. You know how I read that? Don't mess with the word of God. Amen. Get this right. Get this into your head. accept it

all right so the Greek makes explicit what the King James has already said right it's the word of God is true

Doc is there anything you see in a Septuagint that we ought to bring out well it's interesting how this is phrased here because in 2 Peter chapter 2 verse one, it warns that there shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies.

And so that word bring in the Greek is paris saxusin, which means to bring in alongside, as if to introduce secretly beside what is already there. And so beside, not in place of, okay, just consider another alternative, if you will here. And so the characteristic method of false teaching is addition rather than replacement. Just bringing something alongside here. Well, consider this, which is exactly why Agar's prohibition is stated the way it is. And so really, when you bring the King James and Septuagint together, they deliver. the same warning with the same force.

That word, the word of God, has been through the fire. And guess what? It lost nothing. It remains as lustrous and as shiny as it was when it first came out. If you add to it,

you have not improved upon it. You have become a liar about God. Rick, you know, there's a tone to this, a serious tone to this because you see so much today where there's things that are brought alongside the Word of God. Not necessarily replacing it, but just giving you an alternative thought and alternative

way of thinking or alternative interpretation. And you see that with so many, especially moral questions today. But you know what? God only has to say something once to make it his word. and his word has been tried by fire, Rick, seven times. And hasn't been made more pure, but hasn't been made any less pure either. And I think our class members here that are watching and listening to us today, Rick, really need to take heart in the total sufficiency and truth of the Word of God.

It brings great peace to you when you finally know God's word is true. Amen. And it's true because he's true. He's pure. Verse five said, every word of God is pure. He is a shield under them that put their trust in him. Charles Furgeon observed that the purity of the Word of God is what makes the shield. shelter usable, since no man or woman can take refuge behind a promise that he or she

suspects to be defected. How can you feel safe in a place of refuge if you don't have confidence that the refuge is without defects? You know, in a windstorm, do you want to be in a building that you really don't believe can withstand the wind, you desire to be hiding from a tornado or a windstorm in a building that can withstand the highest winds. Your confidence is in the structure. This is why Spurgeon said, the purity of the Word of God is what makes it a shelter.

Every word of God is pure. He is a shield. unto them to put their trust in him. You can trust the word of God because God himself is pure. It is impossible for him to tell a lie. It's impossible for him to even have a tiny, teeny, weeny, little invisible speck of impurity in him. Doc, if he had just a little splendor, a little tiny little speck of impurity in him, he's not God. Right, and his word isn't true.

He's pure. We can't comprehend him because we're not pure. I mean, that's the reason we can't comprehend. We're like, how can anybody do I have that good? Because he's God, that's why. And when we compare ourselves to him, we see how impure we are. All right, that's it for today. Hope it's been a blessing to you.

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