Funamentals of expository Preching by Dr. John MacArthurm Dr. Steven Lawson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQJrKFfEc9Q

 

 

The Failure To Do Expositional Preaching IS?

THE FAILURE TO DO EXPOSITION OF PREACHING IS:

Charles e. Whisnant, Student of the Word, Teacher of the Word

 From my early years back in Roanoke, Virginia when I was 16
 years and was teaching the youth/teenagers/young adults before I had any formal bible education I loved studying the Word of God. I loved teaching a book at a time. That was my Dad's method, take a book like Galatians, or Revelation, or Psalms and teach verse by verse by H.A. Ironside.

In 1982 after attending the Shepherd's Conferences at Grace Community Church, where John MacArthur has preached now for 40 years I learn what it meant to be a pastor/preacher and teacher and how to teach the Word of God.

Starting in 1982 I started teaching Matthew and 250 sermons later I finished.

 Its only in the last year that I listen to John MacArthur give these reasons why by we should be preaching expositional.  What is neat, I have been doing teach this way for 30 years.  Cool.

NUMBER #1
YOU USURP THE AUTHORITY OF GOD OVER THE MIND AND SOUL IF YOU FALL TO EXPLAIN THE WORD OF GOD

• You usurp the authority of God over the mind and soul if you fall to explain the word of God you have replaced the authority of God with whatever else you're doing. It really is a question of authority.

NUMBER #2
YOU USURP THE LORDSHIP OF CHRIST OVER THE CHURCH

• We see it all through the NT the authority of Christ over the Church.That God has made the one who is Lord over everything to be the head of the church.

NUMBER #3
IT HINDERS THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

•  The Spirit uses the Word to sanctify them, by the truth, The word is truth, the only tool the Spirit has is the scripture and where the Scripture replaced by anything else the work of the Spirit is hindered .

• Isn't it unthinkable for a Christian not to submit to scripture. John says If you love Christ you will obey him as well in I Peter 1 14 as Obedient Christians.

• There is this among preachers who do not yield to scripture, it reveals an inferior inadequate love for God and his glory and the honor and glory of God and an inferior understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit

 NUMBER #4
 DEMONSTRATE PRIDE, AND A LACK OF SUBMISSION

• Isn't it unthinkable for a Christian not to submit to scripture. John says If you love Christ you will obey him as well in I Peter 1 14 as Obedient Christians.

• There is this among preachers who do not yield to scripture, it reveals an inferior inadequate love for God and his glory and the honor and glory of God and an inferior understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit

NUMBER # 5. THE CONSEQUENCE OF NON EXPOSITION PREACHING
IT SEVERS THE PREACHER PERSONALLY FROM THE REGULAR SANCTIFICATION OF SCRIPTURE.

• What does that mean? If you are not an expositor you are not in the study of the book. And you have just been cut off from the sanctifying power in your life. Then you put yourself in a dangerous spot.

• If there is one way to discredit everything, and the integrity of the gospel and the church is the testimony of the pastor. What just kills me is the immoral pastor, the pastor who does not live by the Word.
  So what keeps you sanctified to the point that you will not go that way? The only thing that will is what will sanctify anyone and that is the work of the word in your heart.

NUMBER #6
 REMOVES SPIRITUAL DEPTH AND TRANSCENDENCE FROM THE PEOPLE CRIPPLING WORSHIP.

• That is to say it cripples worship. What do I mean by that, well let's take it from the positive side when you come on Sunday or you go to Bible study or go to an opportunity to be taught the word of God, you were taken down into other depths that scripture inevitable to places you haven't been right?

NUMBER #7
  PREVENT THE PREACHER FROM FULLY DEVELOPING THE MIND OF CHRIST CRITICAL TO HIS WORK. From fully speaking for Christ whom he serves.

• 1 Corinthians 2:14-16 we are remind of a very important spiritual truth and  read it please. Mark it down, an unconverted natural person doesn't get it, doesn't understand the things of God.  People are just not favorable with the Scripture.    Lost people just do not get the truths of God.  And that is to be expected as a response.

 NUMBER #8
 DEPRECIATED BY EXAMPLE The spiritual duty and benefit of studying If the pastor doesn't do it.

• If the pastor doesn't do it why should others in the church do it.  I never ask a young person to do something that I had not already done.  Even in those early years I would work my fingers off writing in learning the Word of God. If this bible is not valuable to me why should it be to anyone else. I need first to be a preacher of the word, not a preacher of the building. If the Bible is not the consuming passion in the pulpit why should we believe it should be the consuming passion of those who set the pew.

NUMBER #9
PREVENTS THE PREACHER FROM BEING THE VOICE OF GOD ON EVERY ISSUE OF HIS TIME

• If you know your bible you can be the voice of God on every issue. Other wise you are just one of many voices.  Know the Word of God.  That is what I did when I was a youth pastor. Get them to know the Word. 

NUMBER #10
BREEDS A CONGREGATION AS WEAK AND INDIFFERENT TO THE GLORY OF GOD

•  If you do not do expositional preaching if you don't give your people the eternal powerful word of God you breed a congregation that is week and indifferent to the glory of God, honor of God, the honor of Christ.

NUMBER #11
IF YOU DO NOT DO EXPOSITIONAL PREACHING ON THE NEGATIVE SIDE YOU ROB PEOPLE OF THEIR ONLY TRUE SOURCE OF HELP. THEIR ONLY TRUE SOURCE OF HELP.
1 Timothy 3 we covered that in a series on Sunday in the Adult Bible Class.
There is no help apart from the Lord, and there is no help apart from understand the Scriptures about God.

NUMBER #12
THE FAILURE TO DO EXPOSITORAL PREACHING PUTS THE RESPONSIBILITY ON THE PREACHER TO CHANGE PEOPLE

• Say that most preachers feel that responsibility. I would be in a mental institution if I believe that people's eternal destiny depended on me. I am a Calvinist because that is a defensive posture. I can not handle that responsibility. And I don't have to either.

NUMBER #13
FAILURE TO PREACH EXPOSITIONAL REDUCES THE PREACHERS WORDS TO THE LEVEL OF EVERYBODY ELSE'S WORD

• I just say my words then I am just like anyone else. The audience can pick and choose what they hear. You may think you can come up with a clever way that you think you can articulate your message, but if it's not the Word of God then you are reduced to the level of everyone else who has an opinion, an ideal, a viewpoints, a theory, a religious insight, a perspective

NUMBER #14
FAILURE TO PREACH EXPOSITIONAL IS TO PORTRAY AN ATTITUDE OF SELF-LOVE RATHER THAN LOVING THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART SOUL AND MIND AND STRENGTH.
ANOTHER WAY: FAILURE TO PREACH EXPOSITIONAL REDUCES THE PREACHERS WORDS TO THE LEVEL OF EVERYBODY ELSE'S WORD.

• I don't want to walk into the pulpit and say "the other day I was thinking." (poor typing the script of John and its said, "I don't want to walk in the pole dancing on the other day.")

NUMBER #15
A FAILURE TO DO EXPOSITORIONAL PREACHING CREATES A DESTRUCTIVE DISCONNECT BETWEEN SOUND DOCTRINE AND LIFE: or LIFE IMITATES THEOLOGY

• Since I adopted John MacArthur's method of preaching I have like he has been highly criticism and not been practical and preaching is not applicial . I never make application, I am not relevant.

NUMBER 16
IT ELIMINATES THE TRUTHS, THE TROUBLE AND OFFENSE AND TERRIFIED THE LOST

• A failure to do biblical exposition makes the congregation: if they fail to do biblical exposition to teach the full counsel of God as revealed in holy Scripture it eliminates the truths, the trouble and offended and terrified the lost and the sinful.

Number #17
WILL DISCONNECT GOD'S PEOPLE FROM THE LEGACY OF THE PAST

• Some of my very favorite preachers and theologian and teachers are those who have already died many years ago.  When I was preaching Romans the first time around, or Ephesians, or Revelation I read over 100 people on the subject. Most of them were dead a long time ago.. Why do you read commentaries on any book from dead men? Really dead people: Calvin, Luther, Spurgeon, etc. Pink, Ironside, and Whitefield, and others older Baxter, Edwards,

NUMBER #18
REMOVES THE PROTECTION FROM ERROR THAT IS DEADLY TO THE CHURCH

• Shepherds understand they have to protect sheep, because there are those who dress up in sheep clothing and teach error. That is what Satan does, comes inside the church and cause all kinds of trouble. We have to watch and warn.

• Sometimes Christians can not tell truth from error. A very dangerous situation and unless we clarify doctrine, unless we defended threatened truth, unless we guard the truth of scripture, unless we expose error we are not faithful shepherd's.

NUMBER #19
EXPOSITORY PREACHING ASSURES PEOPLE THAT THEY HAVE HEARD FROM HEAVEN

• Too many preachers preach what has not come from Heaven. I believe people should hear from God and people want to hear from God and the way you guarantee that is by given them the word that God has spoken on the pages of holy scripture. Far  too many people believe that they have heard something so profound they believe it came from God when indeed they have not.

When I started teaching the Bible back in Roanoke, Virginia in December 1963 Dad gave me the young people's class since the teacher went to the Army.  For the text 27 months (February  1966 I taught that class ever week, while I was still in high school.  I was dating Saundra Richardson from the tenth grade until I sent to Seminary in 1966. Love Saundra and love the Lord and love teaching.  My Dad died in February 1966 and that ended my teaching at Roanoke Baptist Temple. I did go over to Fellowship Baptist Church with Gene Arnold and preached and taught in the High School class until Mom and the family moved to Danville, Virginia. 

Now those years teaching in Roanoke, without knowing really what I was really doing, I was studying the Bible. Thank goodness Dad had a great library of great books and I really loved reading them.  I spend a lot of time reading the Bible and reading those who knew the Bible. 

Then I went to seminary and there I learn that preaching was not teaching. I did learn a lot what the Bible. Well what they said about the Bible, but they never gave me the tools to study the Bible, because that was not the right way to study and preach. 

Well for the next few churches I was in churches where the pastor did not preach expositional and therefore I just taught what ever. From 1970 to 1982.
It was not until 1982 that I got back on tract with teaching the bible as I did when I was in high school.

What Is Expositional Preaching

Question: What is Expositional Preaching

Answer: Listen to John MacArthur sermons and you will get what expositional preaching/teaching is. I have for the last 40 years listen to John on tape (1971-1996) Today all his sermons are on tape or video.

STEVE LAWSON TEACHING AT THE MASTER’S SEMINARY

John MacArthur teaching at the Master’s Seminary

Having studied this way of preaching from a number of preachers. I took the course from the Master’s Seminary, first on what was it called eight track, a series by John MacArthur back in the early 1990. Read the book by the Master’s staff.  Then going to the Shepherd's Conferences a number of times.

What I must say, as I hear myself preach/teach,  get too involved with the text, and must confess that reading my notes is a habit that has been part of the preaching for years. 

Answer: Expositional preaching at its simplest is preaching that is focused on explaining the meaning of Scripture in its historical and grammatical context. Expositional preaching involves explaining what the Bible says to a contemporary audience that is likely unfamiliar with the cultural and historical settings that the passage was written in.

The word exposition simply means to “a setting forth or explanation.” So expositional preaching is the explanation of Scripture that is based upon diligent study and careful exegesis of a passage. It is the primary call of the pastor or preacher as we see in 2 Timothy 4:2: “Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.”

Expositional preaching is important to those who believe in the verbal plenary inspiration of Scripture, which simply means that the Scriptures are the very Word of God. As God’s divinely inspired Word, the Scriptures need to be proclaimed and explained in the context in which they were written.

Simply reading Psalm 119 and understanding that Scripture is “God breathed” (2 Timothy 3:16) should be enough for us to understand the importance and value of expositional preaching. In Psalm 119 we see many of the characteristics of God’s Word, but most of all this chapter should help us understand the importance of knowing what the Bible says and what it means, which is the goal of expositional preaching. If we do not understand the Bible, we cannot follow it, nor can it be a “lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:105).

The goal of expositional preaching is to declare precisely what a passage of Scripture says. So the sermon outline of an expository sermon will have gotten its main points and sub-points directly from the text of Scripture the preacher is expounding or explaining.

There should be two main goals of expositional preaching.

First is the goal to discover and explain the original, historic, and grammatical meaning of the passage, or, to put it another way, “God’s intended meaning.” This is the divinely inspired message that God had for the original audience.

The second is closely related—to help people apply to their lives the truths revealed in the passage. Some discount the ability of expositional preaching to address the needs of today’s churchgoers, but that overlooks the fact that “the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12).

The power to transform lives is found only in the Word of God as applied by the Holy Spirit in the hearts of men and women. Great presentation is good but it is not life-changing. While there is a place for topical preaching, it needs to supplement expositional preaching, not replace it.

Expositional preaching is important because, when faithfully followed, it results in the full counsel of God being preached. Difficult or controversial subjects cannot be ignored or overlooked as they can with topical preaching. The expositor deals with what the text says, verse by verse, chapter by chapter, book by book. It helps avoid taking verses out of context and forces the faithful pastor to give due diligence to controversial and difficult issues and subjects.

Some who want to downplay the importance of expositional preaching say it limits the preacher’s ability to present relevant topics that they believe their congregations need to hear. These critics fail to recognize the effective power of the Word of God, which, when presented in the fullness of its truth, does not come back void (

Isaiah 55:11).

Recommended Resources:

Preaching: How to Preach Biblically by John MacArthur and a number of other websites and books.

Kindle Fire has been great since 2012 I bought in December. These are the books which have been downloaded about the preacher and preaching:

1. Preaching by Fred B.Craddock
2. Biblical Preaching by Haddon H. Robinson
3. Preaching and the Literary Forms of the Bible by Thomas G. Long
4. Is There a Meaning of the Text
5. How to Study the Bible b7 Robert West
6. Understanding Scripture by Wayne Grudem, Collins, Schreiner
7. Preach by Mark Dever
8. Why Jonnie Can’t Preach by T. D. Gordon
9. Privilege of the Text  by Kurvilla
10. The Kind of Preaching God Blesss by Steve Lawson
11. Preaching and Preachers by D. Martyn Lloyd=Jones

What Is Biblical Preaching?

Nearly every Baptist preacher will say they are preaching from the Bible and preaching biblically? Are they?  The question is what then is biblical preaching? I am not sure that the congregation really knows if they have heard a truly biblical sermon. Today many want to hear a motivational speaking speaker (I don’t use the term “preacher “ in this sense).

I am afraid that many of the people in the pew do not want to know what biblical preaching is.  They really don’t want to hear “doctrinal teaching.”  They want “preaching” rather than the teaching of the Word of God.  They want a quick fifteen minute lesson that is going to make them feel good about their un holy and sinful living.
What Biblical Preaching is and isn’t? What makes preaching “biblical?
Isn’t all preaching “biblical”  preaching? 
What does a  “non-biblical” sermon sound like and should it really matter?  What is at stake when we claim the need for biblical preaching?  What difference does biblical preaching make for our congregations, our communities and for the church in the world?

On this subject of preaching, one of the elemental question is”What is biblical preaching?” Everyone who takes Scripture seriously says we need to preach the Bible, but what is it

Are you handling the Old Testament faithfully, as well as the New Testament?
How do you know that you have heard a biblical sermon? 
WHAT IS NOT A BIBLICAL SERMON?
Was there a “text” in the sermon? Is  there a willingness, even a perceivable contentment, to move quickly away from the text, never to return.  As a result, the biblical text no longer provides the content of the sermon, no longer guides the sermon and there is little interest in having the sermon do what the text is doing.
If the sermon content is derived elsewhere and frequently could have been suggested just as well by a fortune cookie is not biblical preaching.
If the text that is been read becomes irrelevant, and unable to speak itself into the lives of the congregations then it is not biblical preaching.
If sermon burns the bridge between the text and the sermon than you do not have a biblical sermon.
If the preacher is telling the congregations how to live and the text is not in agreement then its not a biblical sermon.
If the text or passages of scriptures does not speak to the congregations then it is not biblical preaching.
A biblical sermons is not motivational speaking.  We know those who speak to “encourage” people in their living the Christian life. They tell a lot of stories, and seek to sway through emotion and pop psychology.  They might sprinkle in a few scripture.

A biblical sermon is not known by the tone of the sermon, how loud the preacher preachers
WHAT DOES A BIBICAL SERMON SOUND LIKE?
A biblical sermon is one that is “incarnational” i.e. the Word of God becomes flesh and needs to be make flesh as it were over and over again. The content of the sermon is never just words on a page – it is the very presence of the risen Christ who makes God known (John 1:18).
A biblical sermon or preaching is textual . I have said this so many times.  Read the text, explain the text, give understanding of the text, and apply the text. Let the text or verses speak for itself.  When the sermon is over, the people will say “Well that is what the text says.” 
A biblical sermon is contextual.  If you are preaching Luke, make sure that the sermon is in harmony with the other gospels.  But if you preach Luke, preach Luke, and not John or Matthew.  As I am learning how Luke wrote his gospel is for a reason. So preach what Luke says in his book.   Too the preaching of the sermon will take on the tone of the text and the author.  When David prays we should reflect that tone in the preaching. Paul was upset in Galatians about the false teachers, his tone was not in favor of their listening to them teach false doctrine. Paul make some strong remarks about the false teachers.
A biblical sermon is theological.  What is the text saying that God is saying.  The text itself is to be privileged; the text (with its theology) is to be preached.  What is the author doing with what he is saying is stated clearly.  The sermon  will also  give generalization application where the text is not specific.  Whatever the theology from whatever the portions the sermon is taken from, the biblical form of the text is best way to express that truth the preacher is trying to explain. Preaching is not  only telling  a story but what the story, or event is telling about God’s principles in living life.
A biblical sermon is spiritual.  The preacher seeks above all to have people influenced by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God, not stories.  Biblical preachers rely totally upon the Scripture, the text to drive the content and to feed God’s sheep.
There can be sermons that are homiletically brilliant, verbally fluent, theologically profound, biblically accurate and orthodox, and spiritually useless. I Corinthians 3:6-7. It is who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow” (I Cor. 3:6-7).
It is very possible for us to be deeply concerned about homiletically ability and fluency and theological profundity and biblical orthodoxy, but to know nothing of the life – giving power of God with the burning anointing of the Holy Spirit upon our ministry.

Campbell Morgan (Lloyd-Jones’s predecessor at the Westminster Chapel) divulged that at one crucial stage in his ministry he was in precisely this position, and sensed that God was saying to him, “Preach on, great preacher, without me.”

Alan Redpath used to say that the most penetrating question you could ask about any church situation was, “What is happening in this place that cannot be explained in merely human terms?”
A Biblical sermon is  Expository  preaching.  Biblical Preacher in my opinion which I learned from Steven Lawson, and John MacArthur and Al Molder and a number of others. Simply put:  read the text, give an understanding of the text, make application of the text. and all the other elements that I have said thus far.
http://biblicalpreaching.net/

Reason For Expositional Preaching #1

As I watch John MacArthur's series on Reasons why we need to preach expositional I use one of those reasons on Sunday, and some others helps in bible study.  As I have said for 40 years If John has said it I will not be far behind saying it.

WHY PREACH/TEACH EXPOSITIONAL :

THE FAILURE TO DO EXPOSITION OF PREACHING IS:

From my early years back in Roanoke, Virginia when I was 16 years and was teaching the youth/teenagers/young adults before I had any formal bible education I loved studying the Word of God. I loved teaching a book at a time. That was my Dad's method, take a book like Galatians, or Revelation, or Psalms and teach verse by verse by H.A. Ironside.

In 1982 after attending the Shepherd's Conferences at Grace Community Church, where John MacArthur has preached now for 40 years I learn what it meant to be a pastor/preacher and teacher and how to teach the Word of God.

Starting in 1982 I started teaching Matthew and 250 sermons later I finished.

 

Its only in the last year that I listen to John MacArthur give these reasons by we should be preaching expositional.  What is neat, I have been doing teach this way for 30 years.  Cool.

My Scoifield Bible that I have had since 1960

NUMBER #1

• YOU USURP THE AUTHORITY OF GOD OVER THE MIND AND SOUL IF YOU FALL TO EXPLAIN THE WORD OF GOD

• You usurp the authority of God over the mind and soul if you fall to explain the word of God you have replaced the authority of God with whatever else you're doing. It really is a question of authority.

NUMBER #2

• YOU USURP THE LORDSHIP OF CHRIST OVER THE CHURCH

• We see it all through the NT the authority of Christ over the Church.

• That God has made the one who is Lord over everything to be the head of the church.

NUMBER #3

• IT HINDERS THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

•  The Spirit uses the Word to sanctify them, by the truth, The word is truth, the only tool the Spirit has is the scripture and where the Scripture replaced by anything else the work of the Spirit is hindered .

• Isn't it unthinkable for a Christian not to submit to scripture. John says If you love Christ you will obey him as well in I Peter 1 14 as Obedient Christians.

• There is this among preachers who do not yield to scripture, it reveals an inferior inadequate love for God and his glory and the honor and glory of God and an inferior understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit

 NUMBER #4

•  DEMONSTRATE PRIDE, AND A LACK OF SUBMISSION

• Isn't it unthinkable for a Christian not to submit to scripture. John says If you love Christ you will obey him as well in I Peter 1 14 as Obedient Christians.

• There is this among preachers who do not yield to scripture, it reveals an inferior inadequate love for God and his glory and the honor and glory of God and an inferior understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit

5. THE CONSEQUENCE OF NON EXPOSITION PREACHING

• IT SEVERS THE PREACHER PERSONALLY FROM THE REGULAR SANCTIFICATION OF SCRIPTURE.

• What does that mean? If you are not an expositor you are not in the study of the book. And you have just been cut off from the sanctifying power in your life. Then you put yourself in a dangerous spot.

• If there is one way to discredit everything, and the integrity of the gospel and the church is the testimony of the pastor. What just kills me is the immoral pastor, the pastor who does not live by the Word.

• So what keeps you sanctified to the point that you will not go that way? The only thing that will is what will sanctify anyone and that is the work of the word in your heart.

NUMBER #6

•  REMOVES SPIRITUAL DEPTH AND TRANSCENDENCE FROM THE PEOPLE CRIPPLING WORSHIP.

• That is to say it cripples worship. What do I mean by that, well let's take it from the positive side when you come on Sunday or you go to Bible study or go to an opportunity to be taught the word of God, you were taken down into other depths that scripture inevitable to places you haven't been right?

NUMBER #7

•   PREVENT THE PREACHER FROM FULLY DEVELOPING THE MIND OF CHRIST CRITICAL TO HIS WORK. From fully speaking for Christ whom he serves.

• 1 Corinthians 2:14-16 we are remind of a very important spiritual truth and  read it please. Mark it down, an unconverted natural person doesn't get it, doesn't understand the things of God.  People are just not favorable with the Scripture.    Lost people just do not get the truths of God.  And that is to be expected as a response.

 NUMBER #8

•  DEPRECIATED BY EXAMPLE The spiritual duty and benefit of studying If the pastor doesn't do it.

• If the pastor doesn't do it why should others in the church do it.  I never ask a young person to do something that I had not already done.  Even in those early years I would work my fingers off writing in learning the Word of God. If this bible is not valuable to me why should it be to anyone else. I need first to be a preacher of the word, not a preacher of the building.

If the Bible is not the consuming passion in the pulpit why should we believe it should be the consuming passion of those who set the pew.

NUMBER NINE:

• PREVENTS THE PREACHER FROM BEING THE VOICE OF GOD ON EVERY ISSUE OF HIS TIME

• If you know your bible you can be the voice of God on every issue.

NUMBER TEN

A failure to do expositional preaching

• BREEDS A CONGREGATION AS WEAK AND INDIFFERENT TO THE GLORY OF GOD, AS

•  If you do not do expositional preaching if you don't give your people the eternal powerful word of God you breed a congregation that is week and indifferent to the glory of God, honor of God, the honor of Christ.

NUMBER #11

• IF YOU DO NOT DO EXPOSITIONAL PREACHING ON THE NEGATIVE SIDE YOU ROB PEOPLE OF THEIR ONLY TRUE SOURCE OF HELP. THEIR ONLY TRUE SOURCE OF HELP.

• 1 Timothy 3 we covered that in a series on Sunday in the Adult Bible Class.

• There is no help apart from the Lord, and there is no help apart from understand the Scriptures about God.

THE FAILURE TO DO EXPOSITION OF PREACHING IS

NUMBER #12

• THE FAILURE TO DO EXPOSITIONAL PREACHING PUTS THE RESPONSIBILITY ON THE PREACHER TO CHANGE PEOPLE

• Say that most preachers feel that responsibility. I would be in a mental institution if I believe that people's eternal destiny depended on me. I am a Calvinist because that is a defensive posture. I can not handle that responsibility. And I don't have to either.

NUMBER #13

• FAILURE TO PREACH EXPOSITIONAL REDUCES THE PREACHERS WORDS TO THE LEVEL OF EVERYBODY ELSE'S WORD

• I just say my words then I am just like anyone else. The audience can pick and choose what they hear.

• You may think you can come up with a clever way that you think you can articulate your message, but if it's not the Word of God then you are reduced to the level of everyone else who has an opinion, an ideal, a viewpoints, a theory, a religious insight, a perspective

NUMBER #14

• FAILURE TO PREACH EXPOSITIONAL IS TO PORTRAY AN ATTITUDE OF SELF-LOVE RATHER THAN LOVING THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART SOUL AND MIND AND STRENGTH.

• ANOTHER WAY: WHATEVER YOU LOVE MOST WILL DOMINATE YOUR LIFE AND WHATEVER YOU LOVE MOST WILL DOMINATE YOUR MINISTRY.

• I don't want to walk into the pulpit and say "the other day I was thinking." (poor typing the script of John and its said, "I don't want to walk in the pole dancing on the other day.")

NUMBER #15

• A FAILURE TO DO EXPOSITIONAL PREACHING CREATES A DESTRUCTIVE DISCONNECT BETWEEN SOUND DOCTRINE AND LIFE

• Another way: LIFE IMITATES THEOLOGY

• Since I adopted John MacArthur's method of preaching I have like he has been highly criticism and not been practical and preaching is not applicial . I never make application, I am not relevant.

NUMBER 16

• IT ELIMINATES THE TRUTHS, THE TROUBLE AND OFFENSE AND TERRIFIED THE LOST

• A failure to do biblical exposition makes the congregation: if they fail to do biblical exposition to teach the full counsel of God as revealed in holy Scripture it eliminates the truths, the trouble and offended and terrified the lost and the sinful.

Number #17

• WILL DISCONNECT GOD'S PEOPLE FROM THE LEGACY OF THE PAST

• Some of my very favorite preachers and theologian and teachers are those who have already died many years ago.  When I was preaching Romans the first time around, or Ephesians, or Revelation I read over 100 people on the subject. Most of them were dead a long time ago.. Why do you read commentaries on any book from dead men? Really dead people: Calvin, Luther, Spurgeon, etc. Pink, Ironside, and Whitefield, and others older Baxter, Edwards,

NUMBER #18

• REMOVES THE PROTECTION FROM ERROR THAT IS DEADLY TO THE CHURCH

• Shepherds understand they have to protect sheep, because there are those who dress up in sheep clothing and teach error. That is what Satan does, comes inside the church and cause all kinds of trouble. We have to watch and warn.

• Sometimes Christians can not tell truth from error. A very dangerous situation and unless we clarify doctrine, unless we defended threatened truth, unless we guard the truth of scripture, unless we expose error we are not faithful shepherd's.

NUMBER #19

• EXPOSITORY PREACHING ASSURES PEOPLE THAT THEY HAVE HEARD FROM HEAVEN

• Too many preachers preach what has not come from Heaven.

• I believe people should hear from God and people want to hear from God and the way you guarantee that is by given them the word that God has spoken on the pages of holy scripture. Far  too many people believe that they have heard something so profound they believe it came from God when indeed they have not.

Footnote: These points come from by model for preaching since 1982:  John MacArthur

 

 

Fundamentals of Expository Preaching Lecture 04

Fundamentals of Expository Preaching Lecture 05

PM 700 Expository Preaching the Psalms Lecture 02

Shepherd's Conference 2013/General Session 5/Question & Answer

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