Hello, this is pastor gary from first baptist church of laplata. How many times a day do you use the 2 or 4-letter word, “OK?” Probably a lot more than you realize. OK may be America’s most prolific linguistic contribution to both domestic and international communication. How did OK originate? Back in the 1830’s people had an affinity for misspelling words then abbreviating them as sort of a code. “All Correct” was misspelled as “Oll Korrect,” O-L-L K-O-R-R-E-C-T then abbreviated as OK. Things didn’t really take off, though, until Martin Van Buren’s 1840 presidential campaign used OK with a double meaning: Van Buren’s nickname was “Old Kinderhook,” a reference to his New York hometown. In the campaign, Van Buren was OK, and if you voted for him, you were OK. We are all familiar with Neil Armstrong’s famous first words when he stepped onto the lunar surface, but what was the first word ever spoken on the moon? Here’s the first sentence, “OK, engine stopped.” God’s Word, the Bible, is “All Correct.” Theologians put it this way, “The Bible contains truth without any mixture of error”; that it because the Bible says of itself in II Timothy 3:16, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God…” God is perfect, so He would only inspire His Word to be perfect. We can trust every word of God’s Word to be OK. I’m OK with that, how about you?
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